Orbois

This illustration was found on the labels of a few bottles preserved from the “Château de La Grille” dating back to the 1920s ! Dionysos and Bacchus, the Greek god and his Roman counterpart. They are the divinities of the vine, wine, and its excesses, of madness and extravagance. God of life and the forces that develop the plant and animal world, he is the one who, by causing drunkenness , “liberates” the most natural and even the wildest human instincts. Dionysos is a paradoxical, contradictory figure with multiple faces and representations. The one here as a little devil with goat hooves, the other as a plump bon vivant enjoying the earth’s bounty.