Copper Flint

Sancerre takes its name from a fortified hilltop town above the Loire, and its character from what lies beneath it. Three soils share the appellation — the round limestone pebbles of the caillottes, the clay-rich terres blanches, and, on its steepest slopes, silex: flint, the same stone that once struck sparks for fire. It is silex that gives Sauvignon Blanc here a smoke no other soil can produce — cool, mineral, faintly struck, never loud about it. Copper Flint was built on that same quality: a restraint that carries its own quiet spark, and a colour, caught in her hair, that answers the stone.

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 Copper Flint travels with the finished work to its collector: a window into the creative process, a second layer of the work itself.

Sancerre has long kept company with shellfish — its acidity and minerality were made for oysters, langoustine, lobster. In collaboration with Anoek Hovestad of ORGNL, Copper Flint extends that pairing into the room itself: two hand-sculpted epoxy lobsters, cast and finished by hand, available to mount on the wall beside the work — a quiet second gesture, for those who want the whole table, not only the glass.