Prince's painting makes a splash on Bordeaux bottle

A watercolour painted by Prince Charles has been chosen for the label of Chateau Mouton Rothschild’s latest release. Each year the work of an artist is featured on the label of this Bordeaux beauty and over the years paintings by some of the world’s most respected have graced the bottles - Picasso, Salvador Dali and Henry Moore to name a few. Now The Prince of Wales has joined this honoured club after Baroness Philippine de Rothschild commissioned him for the recently bottled 2004 vintage as a way of celebrating the 100th anniversary of Entente Cordiale.

The painting is of a row of pine trees set against a clear blue sky at Cap d’Antibes on the Cote d’Azur. Since the news broke about the Prince’s work being selected last year, the price of a case of this first growth from Pauillac has escalated. Currently, a bottle is expected to retail at £140 but, with only around 20,000 cases of the wine due to go on sale, global demand could push the price even higher.