Living Wine Labels - Animating Your Wine Drinking Experience - Pure Sorcery And a History Lesson!!!
Living Wine Labels - History on a Bottle
Now this is a bit of a gimmic, but such a cool gimmic that I had to show you all. It's called "Living Wine Labels." When you find a bottle of wine with a "Living Wine Labels" label, by downloading the Living Wine Labels Augmented Reality app and scanning the label, the app brings your label to life on your phone screen, and it's quite entertaining to watch, and to Junior MJ, just a little bit kreepy!
We picked up a bottle by chance, after seeing someong grab a case of it, and load it into his trolley. "He must like this one!" we thought, so had a look to see what it was. The Label sold it to us.. hooked by the novelty of it. It was only 10 bucks, so worth trying the wine to see if it was any good, and getting a bit of entertainment with the label coming to life. This one had a brief history lesson for those who chose to dig a little deeper.
James Keily
"They call me the informer. Well, forgive me for caring more about myself than the cause." - James Keily
This bottle is from 19 Crimes, and is a 2017 Shiraz out of South Eastern Australia. That's about as much info I have from the label, which is more about the convict on the front, James Keily, who was convicted of high treason in connection with the Finian riots England in 1866, and sent to prison "for life." After spending a few years in prisons in England, he was shipped with 72 other inmates to Fremantle Prison, Western Australia. You can see the label come to life in the gif I made, but please excuse the cat fight in the background... naughty critters!!!
James Keily got caught up in a plot to steal 2000 rifles and ammunition from an armory in Clonmel, Ireland, in aid of the local Fanian societies. This was during the great potato famine, and uprisings were on the increase as the military was evicting farmers form their land. Keily found himself sympathizing with the fenians. He made a set of skeleton keys, which he used to open the armory, but before the raid could be completed, a detective found out what was happening and received information from Keily. Keily and several of his accomplices who were arrested, and convicted. Keily was thereafter know as an informant.
After serving many years at Fremantle Prison, he was eventually pardoned by the King in 1905, and moved to a cottage on Mary Street, North Perth.
That was a pretty cool piece of history attached to a wine label. The wine itself wasn't great. Mrs MJ quite liked it, but I didn't particularly enjoy it all that much. I was more interested in the story on the label.
If I had to review it, I'd say it was pretty average, had a slight bitterness around the edges of a sweet, plum and dark fruit palate, with slight vanilla notes to it. It was worth the 10 bucks we paid for it, and the entertainment factor of the label made it just a little more palatable.
Will I look out for more living wine labels? Yeah, for sure!!
Cheers!
Fine a little article on James Keily here.
More about the wines, and 19 crimes here
Okay that must be something new alien technology :-) 😱
... but it also remindes me a little bit on the harry potter movies, where they have this living newspaper pictures, looks like this crazy cool stuff becomes real :-)
Im excited what will comes next. Great, and that is the point why i am here in steemit. To see everyday fresh awesome stuff 😃
Even i dont drink wine, thats a super cool post ! ;-)
Greetings from germany ✌
I tell you what, when the labels come to life without the aid of an app, like the Harry Potter newspapers, that will be freaky!! It seems we are truly only limited by our own imagination.
Thanks for stopping by for a read 😁
Hehehehe! So now you don't just enjoy the taste of the wine, you get entertained as well? That's freaking awesome!!
That's really some history on the wine label. Well, an extra you get added to the entertainment.
More people are definitely gonna start trooping in to get wines with the living label... Its really cool!
It was fun to see the label come to life through the app. It also made me more interested in looking up the while story, and found some interesting history.
Yes, that is what he was saying in the video. Pretty cool!!
It must have been! I will definitely be on the look out for wines with those labels..
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Excellent way of sharing history off the wine bottles, ways of sparking conversation @bmj
That's actually a pretty cool gimmick XD and an interesting way to learn history? :D
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I’ve always liked 19 Crimes wines pretty well. They’re never anything super outstanding, but not bad for sipping. And the labels ARE cool, so there’s that.
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Everyone has different tastes they like. Mrs MJ liked it. I like something a bit more bold and eye-watering sometimes, but that's just me. Something was just not quite in balance for my taste buds. I'd definitely get it again though. Magbe air it for a while, or chill it slightly to get a different character from it.
Very interesting gimmick indeed, but the cat fight sold it to me in the end XD
I have always heard and wanted to know more about the 'criminal colonization' of australia.
Haha, those cats!!! Aways stealing the show!
The convict history of australia is very interesting. I kay look up a few more stories to share...
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