Hidden Spark — Tempranillo · WiWwaW portrait by Joël van den Hoogen
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Hidden Spark

Tempranillo

Appellation  ·  Rioja DOCa · Ribera del Duero DO, Spain
Grape  ·  Tempranillo — Spain's most planted and versatile red variety
Terroir  ·  Clay-limestone and alluvial soils, continental climate with extreme temperatures, the high plateau of Castile

Intimate  ·  60 × 80 cm  ·  Edition of 24 + 2 A.P.

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The Work

Portrait title
Hidden Spark
Wine
Tempranillo
Format
Fine Art Baryta print
TruLife acrylic mount
Dimensions
60 × 80 cm
Edition
24 + 2 A.P.
Series
Intimates

Tempranillo is Spain's most versatile red — a grape that expresses warmth, generosity and a slow-burning depth depending on where it grows and how long it is aged. In Rioja, it softens with time in American oak into vanilla and leather and dried cherry. In Ribera del Duero, it becomes more concentrated, more austere, the altitude cooling it into precision. In both expressions, there is a fundamental warmth that is unmistakably Spanish. Hidden Spark was built on this quality: warmth beneath composure. A fire that burns slowly. The spark you don't see coming.

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

"He doesn't make artworks. He creates encounters."

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