Millbrook wine label has a winner

MILLBROOK — The results of the second annual wine label contest to select local artwork for the label of a Millbrook Winery and Vineyards wine bottle were announced on Saturday afternoon, Nov. 13, at the Dutchess County Arts Council’s 2010 Fine Arts and Crafts Market in Poughkeepsie.   

The winner was painter Scott Taylor’s “Autumn Ridgeline,â€� which will grace bottles of  Millbrook Winery and Vineyards’ Cabernet Franc Proprietor’s Special Reserve. There were about 1,500 votes cast online and at the winery to chose among the work of 10 artists.

Each of these artists participated in one of the three Art in the Loft shows sponsored by the Dutchess County Arts Council, held in the converted hayloft gallery upstairs at the Millbrook Winery this summer and fall. Each artist selected one work to be included in the contest, and wine bottles with the label prototypes were displayed in the loft’s tasting room.

The winner, Scott Taylor, a self-taught Berkshire artist working in Pittsfield, Mass., said he is inspired by the hues and brush strokes of Vincent Van Gogh, Edward Hopper, Wayne Thiebaud and Richard Diebenkorn. Taylor’s use of vibrant color has become his signature and he likes to hang his work in non-traditional spaces. What could be more unusual than on a wine bottle?

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