Under Glass — Sauvignon Blanc · WiWwaW portrait by Joël van den Hoogen
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Under Glass

Sauvignon Blanc

Appellation  ·  Loire Valley · Marlborough, New Zealand · Pessac-Léognan, Bordeaux
Grape  ·  Sauvignon Blanc
Terroir  ·  Flint and chalk soils (Sancerre/Pouilly-Fumé), clay-limestone (Bordeaux), cool maritime (Marlborough)

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

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The Work

Portrait title
Under Glass
Wine
Sauvignon Blanc
Format
Fine Art Baryta print
TruLife acrylic mount
Dimensions
60 × 80 cm
Edition
24 + 2 A.P.
Series
Intimates

Sauvignon Blanc is the most articulate of white grapes. Whether from the flinty soils of Sancerre and Pouilly-Fumé, the cool coast of Marlborough, or the gravels of Pessac-Léognan, it always announces itself clearly: citrus, gooseberry, fresh herb, mineral. It does not hide. It does not linger in ambiguity. It is precisely, eloquently itself — and it keeps a precise distance from everything that might blur its edges. Under Glass was built on this character. Crisp, bright, perfectly composed. She keeps you at a precise distance and makes you want to cross it.

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 Under Glass 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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