The label for the 2008 vintage of
Chateau Mouton Rothschild was painted by Xu Lei ( 徐累), the second ever Chinese artist to be
given the Mouton label commission (the first being Gu Gan (古干) in 1996). Born in Nantung and graduating
from the Nanjing's Art University, Xu Lei is the artistic director of Beijing's
Today Art Museum and a fellow of the Art Academy of China. Keeping to his habit
of a subdued blue palette with animals, the 2008 Mouton label features a ram
(mouton means sheep) astride coral reef between two halves of a globe with
hanging grapes.
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