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Ridley Scott releases limited edition Gladiator II wines
Gladiator II director Ridley Scott will next month launch two limited edition cuvées from his Mas des Infermieres vineyard, sporting his own sketches of characters from the long awaited film sequel.
Film buffs will want to make a beeline for Selfridges on 4 November as the UK department store will be the exclusive stockist for a pair of wines released by Hollywood director Ridley Scott to coincide with the film release of Gladiator II.
The labels for the two limited edition cuvees, a red called Caracalla and a white called Geta, will each feature hand-drawn sketches by Scott of characters featured in the film. Caracalla and Geta were real life Roman emperors who both ruled Rome after the original Gladiator film’s antagonist Commodus. The pair assumed dual emperorship after their father, Septimius Severus, died in the year 209. Both of Scott’s wines, named after the emperors, are priced at £25.99.
Scott’s vineyard, which is based in Luberon, Provence, has also produced an extremely limited run of its Ombre de Lune red magnum, renamed as Imperatores (meaning emperors), housed in a luxury box with a commemorative card hand-signed by Scott and a coin used as a prop in the filming of Gladiator II.
Each of the Imperatores magnums, priced at £300, also has a new label illustrated by Ridley. Only 100 magnums are available to buy in the UK. However, the movie’s cast members, which include Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal and Barry Keoghan, have each been gifted a bottle by Scott for their work on the feature film.
Last year, Ridley Scott told db that he trusts the expertise of his master blender when it comes to getting the best out of our grapes and creating new cuvées “but I always welcome a tasting during the process! I am of course a storyteller, so I like creating the ‘story’ for each bottle through their artworks… I am always doodling – I was an artist and set designer before I was a director. When I design a visual, I’m creating a narrative.”
Scott acquired the Mas des Infermières property in Luberon in 1992, but it was not until 2009 that it would produce and bottle its first commercial vintage.
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