Pont des Arts
PONT DES ARTS is an exclusive, limited collection of fine wines and spirits, a bridge between Art and Wine, the East and West, and collectors and newcomers alike. Pont des Arts marries the best from the Art world (such as Zao Wou-Ki, Yue Minjun, Miquel Barceló and Yan Pei-Ming) and the Wine world (The late Paul Pontallier and other highly respected wine experts from France).
WHEN FOUNDERS, Arthur de Villepin and Thibault Pontallier, met in Hong Kong in 2010, they shared a common goal: to promote abroad what France does best. Arthur was passionate about art and loved wine. Thibault was passionate anout wine and loved art. The project combines their French roots and lifestyle with different cultures and talents.
Pont des Arts has been creating exclusive art and wine collections since 2010 and is now available in more than 20 centuries.
Wine & Art
Every bottle produced adorns carefully selected pieces of art, chosen together with the artist, to match the flavour profile of each of our wines. The two founders went to Zao Wou-Ki’s and Miquel Barceló’s ateliers in Paris and Yue Minjun’s in Beijing several times, carefully thinking about the association between each painting and each wine, and ensuring the emotions that are evoked when drinking great wine or looking at great art are intrinsically linked.
The Art of Wine
The Pontallier Family has been making Wine for more than 400 years.
Thibault Pontallier and his father – the legendary French wine-maker the Late Paul Pontallier spent many years alongside other wine experts from Bordeaux and Burgundy to taste, blend and create this limited collection of fine wines. They looked for the best terriors nad the best grapes in France, tasting more than 700 different parcels, to realise this unique project. AS Arthur de Villepin points out "the wines themselves are works of Art".
Where beauty happens
The bottles are beautifully designed with distinctive lithographic quality paper. All have been engraved in Cognac, France, and have a unique shape, including magnum formats. The quantities of each wine are engraved on the back of every bottle, exhibiting the exclusivity of the experience.
All of our wines come with distinguished packaging and include a booklet about the artists and wines, taking you on a pioneering journey into the worlds of Art and Wine.
In the constant pursuit of beauty, pleasure, and quality, they are the Pont des Arts experience and proud to present.
"The initial aspirations of the two young men"
Highlights
Pont des Arts Wine Collection
PONT DES ARTS offers an exclusive range of exceptional French wines from both Bordeaux and Burgundy, produced in limited quantities.
Every aspect of the collections is produced and tailor-made in France, bringing together the essence of the French Art de Vivre. The bottles are beautifully designed with distinctive lithographic-quality paper, and each has been engraved in Cognac. France has a unique shape. The quantities of each wine are engraved on the back of every bottle, exhibiting the exclusivity of the experience.
Pont des Arts Spirits Collection
PONT DES ARTS also offers an exclusive range of spirits made with top French producers such as the Godet Family in Cognac and the House of Samalens in Armagnac. We select just a few old barrels to produce these very rare spirits.
Pont des Arts is a beautiful story and a bridge, not only between Art & Wine, but also between some of the best regions of wine in the world. Together with my son Thibault,and a few winemakers and friends, we have explored many different terroirs in order to create this limited collection of fine wines.
Our goal is to express the personality of their origin together with our vision of what fine wines should deliver: balance, freshness, enough density but not at the expense of subtlety, and above all, the pleasure of drinking!