Christmas Wines 2022: Delusions of Grandeur and Brotherlands

 Christmas Wines of 2022

 

This has been another rough year for most of us. Another year of virus, of war, of incompetent politicians, rising inflation and a whole ten yards more.

 Ralph decided to make a red wine for this years offering and I volunteered to contribute toward a white wine. We had fun coming up with the ideas for episodes concerning those bumbling Campbell brothers. We hope you enjoy too...

Delusions of Grandeur

Ralph came up with the name first, he wanted his wine to be titled 'Delusions of Grandeur'. Okay by me.

The elements for the picture were drawn (or pic-ted really) from a couple of sources. The background was a picture I had taken years before of the throne room of Edinburgh Castle in Scotland with a few embellishments. The 'Game of Thrones' throne was taken at a place previously mentioned in the blog, Primitive Designs, located near Port Hope, Ontario.

On the handout, or pamphlet, I used another shot from Scotland, from the Castle Campbell near Dollar. I lined up a couple of outhouses with silhouettes of courtly figures, added a 'garderobes are us' sign, and Bob's your uncle.

The label, once completed, looked like this...

Hail to the king, Delusions of Grandeur

And the story goes something like this...

For the white wine I took inspiration from the video game I've been playing (for years), Borderlands. I thought it would be a nice twist of reality to have... well, you'll see. 

 

I took some game shots, some of me and my brother (I'm still amazed at how versatile my living room is for photos in spite of all the clutter in there). I also used a background from a misty field located near my brother's place, and, oh yes, a picture of a metal rhino taken from you know where.

Brotherlands

Instead of a single label I produced a set of three:

 

Their story is linked in the pamphlet.

And there you have it, this year's installments of the not so epic Campbell brothers' sagas.