A Quiet Indulgence

Chablis occupies a unique place in the wine world: the northernmost point of Burgundy, where Chardonnay is stripped of almost everything except its most essential qualities. The Kimmeridgian limestone beneath these vineyards is some 150 million years old — ancient seabed, full of fossilised oyster shells, giving the wine its characteristic saline minerality. Great Chablis — Grand Cru especially — does not show off. It reveals itself only to those who slow down. Pale gold, almost cool to look at. Mineral on the palate, with a citrus tension that builds rather than announces. A Quiet Indulgence captures this precisely: the pleasure you permit yourself in silence, the one you think about longest afterward.

Every WiWwaW portrait begins not with a canvas or a lens but with a moodboard — a private, intuitive assembly of words, colours, textures and images that together form the wine's character translated into a woman. The moodboard for A Quiet Indulgence travels with the finished work to its collector: a window into the creative process, a second layer of the work itself.