Margaux’s Château Siran has unveiled the label for the 2022 vintage, a work that pays tribute to Queen Elizabeth II by contemporary English artist Damian Elwes. The label for the 2022 vintage marks a “double tribute” to the UK’s longest reigning monarch, as it was the year that marked her Platinum Jubilee in June, followed by her death in September that year. Édouard Miailhe, general manager of Château Siran, and a member of the sixth generation of the family, commissioned English artist Damian Elwes, who is known for his work on the creative process of artists, to create the labels for the 2022 vintage. Elwes, grew up overlooking the Windsor estate, and the painting for this year’s vintage, ‘Sunlight on the Thames near Windsor’, is inspired by his memories of the castle and the river that flower through the town and countryside nearby. “Every time I drove home, I would look up to see the castle and sometimes the sunlight on the river,” he said. The vibrant sunlight on the Thames is combined to the famous profile of Elizabeth II that appears on banknotes, stamps and coinage, which was inspired by a portrait by renowned photographer Cecil Beaton. Elwes is a third-generation artist from a well-known English recusant family (his father Dominick was a painter, as was his grandfather Simon, a war artist and society painter who was reputed to be a favourite of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother) and brother of actor Cary Elwes (most famous as the hero
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