Bordeaux producer offers virtual museum and art gallery tours

Known for its stylish wine bottles and connection to the Russian art foundation, Château La Grace Dieu des Prieurs has set up space on its website offering access to ballet performances, operas, theatres, museums and galleries.

Bordeaux’s Château La Grace Dieu des Prieurs has partnered with Bloomberg Media on the initiative, which provides virtual tours of Moscow and St. Petersburg’s galleries and museums, as well as links to projects of “world-famous Russian theatres, dance companies and orchestras.”

Château La Grace Dieu Des Prieurs signed a deal with the Art Russe Foundation, which owns one of the largest collections of Russian art of the late 19th and 20th centuries, in May 2017. As part of this, the estate can use reproductions of 12 different works by Russian painters from the Art Russe collection per year, to design its Grand Cru wine labels.

The estate, owned by Russian entrepreneur Andrey Filatov, has created new culture page that provides information on the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, the State Hermitage Museum, the Peterhof Palace, the Pushkin Museum and the Garage Museum for Contemporary Art, which have all opened their doors to virtual visitors.

It also includes links to performances at the Bolshoi and Mariinsky theatres, and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra.

Natalia Vrema, Art Russe export manager, said: “no lockdown can extinguish our desire to communicate, experience culture and pursue beauty.”

“Art Russe Saint-Emilion Grand Cru invites you to spend this time together – exploring and enjoying Russian art.”