Mar 30, 2012 9:16 AM
While I was leafing through the December issue of Food and Wine magazine, an image of a pretty Gwyneth Paltrow-lookalike in an ad for Rutherford Hill Napa Valley Merlot caught my attention.
The woman is posed with her chin resting on her hand (referencing Rodin’s “The Thinker,” no doubt). With bare neck, arms and shoulders, she wears large sparkly earrings, false eyelashes and a dinky little ring on her right hand. We can’t see her left hand, to know if she is married or engaged. In a separate image, we see a bottle of the Rutherford Hill wine.
The text of the ad reads, “If he brings the Rutherford Hill it’s a yes.”
So I asked myself, “Yes to what?” She’ll go to the movies with him? She’ll marry him? She’ll sip the... more
The woman is posed with her chin resting on her hand (referencing Rodin’s “The Thinker,” no doubt). With bare neck, arms and shoulders, she wears large sparkly earrings, false eyelashes and a dinky little ring on her right hand. We can’t see her left hand, to know if she is married or engaged. In a separate image, we see a bottle of the Rutherford Hill wine.
The text of the ad reads, “If he brings the Rutherford Hill it’s a yes.”
So I asked myself, “Yes to what?” She’ll go to the movies with him? She’ll marry him? She’ll sip the... more
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