Give a gift they’ll savour all year long. Gift a Membership Now

Rosé, art and artfulness

Girl with balloon - Bansky artwork

23 March 2021 See a follow-up to this saga at the end of the original article.

22 March 2021 One very cunning German wine label …

Will the real Banksy please stand up?

Or, to put it differently: does the world-famous graffiti artist known only by the pseudonym Banksy really love German rosé?

That’s what almost everybody believed when, in the spring of 2020, the VDP Rheinhessen wine estate St Antony launched a rosé called Love & Hope which depicted his/her artwork Girl with Balloon on its label and which became a huge success (see Part 2 below).

According to...