Wine and Art Tasting hosted at The National Gallery

Wow! I am still processing the magic of yesterday evening.

Thank you so much to the incredible art historian Lucrezia Walker for your enlightening insight, passion and generosity which enabled my visions of this event to come to life.

I could not have had a better partner in crime for a cross pollination extravaganza!

I am a great believer that wine is one of the arts and I adore blending art forms to create new sensory experiences of each.  A proper reel of this magnificent metamorphosis will be coming but here are some #BTS to give an event taster.

1. Me slightly terrified but excited before I left home

2. Me with the incredible Lucrezia in front of ‘Perseus turning Phineas and his Followers to Stone’ by Luca Giordano – I adored Lucrezia’s dramatic telling of this tale

3. Me rehearsing my ode to a glorious White Bordeaux – linking it to the golden elixir depicted in ‘The Marriage at Cana’ by Mattia Preti

4. Me in action drawing people into new visions of the past whilst looking at miraculous vinous miracles of today.

Thank you so much @nationalgallery for letting us take over… plus 100 guests for an evening of wine, food and glorious art. It was an evening of the senses which epitomized the Ancient Greek belief in ‘Kalos Kai Agathos’ – the perfect union of the beautiful and the good.

I can’t believe this event was already a week ago!

This #BTS reveals it all – my excitement/ slight hysteria, my wonderful partner in wine and art crime, Art Historian – @walkerlucrezia and the incredible work of the @thenationalgallerey and Rocket catering to produce a one of kind, multi-sensory event.

9 different paintings plus Boris Anrep ‘s murals, covering a time frame from the 16th century right until 1952 were paired to seven wines – ranging from bubbles to sauternes – from France, Argentina and South Africa. Some of these wines and paintings are extremely well known, but hopefully last night new visions were created by all of the pairings, encouraging revisiting for both arm forms.

We finished the tasting standing on the Boris Anrep murals with the Bacchus and the Muses mosaics to our right – which seemed a fitting place to give a final cheers and wrap up our evening of wine and art.