De Atramentis Wine Ink Merlot

[Morbus Curiositas]

Lovely Liquids De Atramentis Wine Ink Merlot

 

Dear FPN friends,

 

It is time for a review of my now FAVOURITE ink…. De Atramentis Merlot.

 

http://i1286.photobucket.com/albums/a617/Morbus_Curiositas/De%20Atramentis%20MERLOT/MerlotwineinkbottlesglasspaperFPN_zpsf2c312a9.jpg

 

On Wine Inks

 

De Atramentis produces a vast Array of wine inks.

 

 

Following De Atramentis Wine Inks are Available

Barolo, Spätburgunder, Bordeaux, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chianti, Dornfelder, Merlot, Lambrusco,

 

There are even special boxes available by country containing six bottles of wine ink.

All boxes contain Country typical grape/wine inks.

 

Following countries are available

Germany, Italy, France, USA, Austria

 

 

The most exclusive ink in the world.

 

De Atramentis offers a unique opportunity. Everyone can send a bottle of his/hers favourite wine, Dr Jansen will make 12 bottles of ink out of it. Even the ink lable will resemble the wine label…. That is awesome!!!

 

Exclusive, well no offence, but forget Graf von Faber Castell or Iroshizuku. Send a bottle of Romané Conti (Burgundy France € 3000, a bottle)... Ready is the most luxuorious and exclusive ink in the world.

 

 

There are several wine estates who sell inks made of their own wine ink now. Even artists use these inks. Here is an example www.vinorello.com (German wine estate, the wife of the owner paints with their wine inks)

 

De Atramentis Merlot

 

http://i1286.photobucket.com/albums/a617/Morbus_Curiositas/De%20Atramentis%20MERLOT/MerlotwineinkhandwrittenFPN_zps7459f83a.jpg

 

This ink is truly made of Merlot wine. You will see the richness and warm red colour back in your writing. I allowed me a glass of Merlot WINE on writing this review. cheers!

 

The ink looked so tempting that I had to taste a drop (All De Atramentis inks comply to the EN71-3 safety standard for children)

 

http://i1286.photobucket.com/albums/a617/Morbus_Curiositas/De%20Atramentis%20MERLOT/MerlotwineinkpaperandglassFPN_zpscac86111.jpg

 

 

 

http://i1286.photobucket.com/albums/a617/Morbus_Curiositas/De%20Atramentis%20MERLOT/merlottong_zps1e8369fa.jpg

Well it doesnt't taste that badly... but I prefer the MerlotWine for drinking and De Atramentis Merlot for writing

 

 

Ink specs and Details

 

http://i1286.photobucket.com/albums/a617/Morbus_Curiositas/De%20Atramentis%20MERLOT/MerlotwineinksamplerFPN_zps0772c05b.jpg

 

Colour

Lustrous rich warm wine red. In my opinion it absolutely resembles a wine (please read under "postcard")

 

Shading

Very rich, even in a medium nib

 

Feathering

Absent

 

http://i1286.photobucket.com/albums/a617/Morbus_Curiositas/De%20Atramentis%20MERLOT/Merlotwineink009_zps51bd2960.jpg

 

Bleedthrough

Little and very acceptable even on the cheap paper I always use

 

http://i1286.photobucket.com/albums/a617/Morbus_Curiositas/De%20Atramentis%20MERLOT/Merlotwineinkshow_zps441d743c.jpg

 

Down here are some of the technical specs (as suggested by Ann Finley 2007)

(not copied in but for this ink)

 

points 1-5 1 = 5=

 

Fountain Pens: Online best writer 0.4 italic nib: Waterman Carène M

Paper: Leonardo Ringbuch,average quality school note book made in Austria

Drying time: fast points 5

Flow: very smooth even in scratchy nibs points: 5

Lubrication: smooth in both pens points: 5

Bleeding: stronger in broader little points 4

Shading: superb!!! none points: 5

Waterproof: no need to mention here points:5

Package: Only in bottles,Wide opening for easy filling up points: 3-4 (bottle is quite nice but the not very special,

Availabilty: In Europe Good, D-A webshop www.tinten-online.de, Amazon, La Couronne Du Comte (NL),

USA Amazon, DA Webshop www.de-atramentis.com points: EU 3 USA???.... See more under availabiltiy!!!

Quality: Hand Made in Germany points: 5

 

Availability

These inks as far as I know are only available at De Atramentis.

I have spoken to Dennis van de Graaf, the passionate owner of the lovely La Couronne du Comte Fountain Pen shop. He was very interested. I will give you notice on developments.

 

Postcard

 

It can be difficult to show the tue colours on a Monitor. I gave it my best to make the photos resemble...

 

But...

 

I always like to share my enthusiasm. This ink neurotically forces me to do so

 

If you send me your adress I will send you a postcard with the De Atramtentis Merlot Ink

 

Too Conclude

 

Only my mom and my girlfriend Sabine I love more….

But after that… I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS INK!

 

I love wines, and I love inks…. De Atramentis Merlot Ink, rich red and subtle like a Pomerol wine…

 

I happen to have quite some inks from various manufactures…. But this is my FAVOURITE ink for now!

 

Cheers, Santé, Prosit, Salute

 

Peter

[visvamitra]

Na zdrowie That's the polish one. That would be cool to have Tokaj golden amber ink

[Morbus Curiositas]

Na zdrowie That's the polish one. That would be cool to have Tokaj golden amber ink

I love tokajer wine.... I wonder if it's possible to make ink out of it

[Dumatborlon]

Great review! Though I’m no fan of wine in general or wine-coloured inks (I prefer more ‘popping’ colours), it’s a very original idea for an ink. I’ll keep that in the back of my head, to the right person this ink is bound to make a great present!

I also like your pre-printed fact sheet thing—great idea! I’ll have to cook up my own soon.

Skål! )

[Jamerelbe]

I also like your pre-printed fact sheet thing—great idea! I’ll have to cook up my own soon.

 

Skål! )

 

You can download the form from this link: https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php/topic/100963-ink-review-forms/, or directly from here: http://www.riorondo.com/fpn/InkReviewA4.pdf - unless you want to formulate your own!

[Morbus Curiositas]

You can download the form from this link: https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php/topic/100963-ink-review-forms/, or directly from here: http://www.riorondo.com/fpn/InkReviewA4.pdf - unless you want to formulate your own!

Thaks for putting in that link... I lost it and have been carefully copying my last fact sheet.

[Morbus Curiositas]

Great review! Though I’m no fan of wine in general or wine-coloured inks (I prefer more ‘popping’ colours), it’s a very original idea for an ink. I’ll keep that in the back of my head, to the right person this ink is bound to make a great present!

I also like your pre-printed fact sheet thing—great idea! I’ll have to cook up my own soon.

Skål! )

If your more into poppy colours...

 

amberlea posted a review on De Atrmentis poppy red lately.

 

and today a review of DA Mahata Gandi was posted.... very poppy very nice

[Bo Bo Olson]

My ink well addiction is getting in the way of doing inks.

I do have the Bordeaux, but in it's red I don't use it much, because of the ink windows in my piston pens. That''s 11 DA inks...I'd forgotten to count it just minutes ago, when I told the OP, I had ten.

 

:eureka: Some times I'm a bit slow....forgetful.....I do have C/C pens.... I can reload empty cartridges or see if those converters bought by the hand full at a flea market do anything.

[Morbus Curiositas]

I read your topic on hte Ink well ... very nice... What kind of Ink Mall is that in your profile picture

 

I will read the things you wrote me in the private message more thoroughly later... What are the inks brands...

 

Is the Bordeaux different from the Merlot....

[Morbus Curiositas]

Hello FPN friends

 

Just to let you know I have published a comparison of two Reddish inks i have reviewed seperately before...

 

J Herbin Terre de Feu and De Atramentis wine ink Merlot

 

You can find the comparison here

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php/topic/270999-allied-forces-j-herbin-de-atramentis-terre-de-feu-merlot/

 

Hope you will enjoy it...

 

Regards

 

Peter

[Morbus Curiositas]

Cybaea

 

Your postcard is on its way

 

[Morbus Curiositas]

Dear FPN friends

 

Fellow member Fabienn wrote me an interesting remark on sugar in wine inks

 

Fabienne, on 29 Jul 2014 - 12:50, said:

Thanks for the highly amusing review. I will be testing out Terre de Feu soon and was wondering about a red-brown ink which shaded well. Now I can try Merlot. Not crazy about wine in the ink as that is full of sugars which are sticky BUT maybe it's metaphorical wine and there will be no problems.

 

P.S. I was highly highly amused by your reference to being a [sic] "sh*tty" artist. Too funnah. You and Stephen Brown should get together and do a Mad Review series.

 

Well of course there are no sugars in the wine inks.

 

To explain you why there is no sugar in wine Inks (and there for do not stick your papers together) I copied the answe I gave to Fabienne down here in blue

 

 

 

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How cool you know him too.... LORD SBRE Brown,my divine Fountain Pen Hero. To me he is the David Attenborough of Foutain Pen Documentaries

 

On that sugar thing

 

There is no sugar left in the wine (if a dry wine is used).

 

A little of a technical story.....

 

During the fermentation process the yeast on the grapes comes in contact with the sugar in the grapes, This process induces two things.

1. Alcohol
2. Carbon Dioxide

These are made out of the sugars.

 

In a dry wine (most Merlots are dry wines) all sugar is gone as is the Carbon Dioxide (in a Champagne the Carbon dioxide is captured in the bottle, during it's sugar-induced fermentation within the bottle)

 

Of course there are sweet wines like Port, Muscat and Late harvest wines.

 

How does this come (fortunately not by having a diabetic peeing in the wine, their urine is actually sweet, early doctors tested for diabetes by tasting a patients urine... TRUE I am a nurse! cheeeers)

 

Well how does this work then...

 

It all has to do with suicidal yeast cells. The funny thing is that yeast cells are the vegetarian equivalent of Harakiri-pilots. Once the fermentation process produces 15-16-% of alcohol.... all the yeast cells die.(well I guess it is a nice way to die.... Winston Churchill took 91 years to do so )

 

In Port wines aquardiente (a 40-45% alcohol beverage) is added during the fermentation process. This causes a mass-murder among the yeast cells, also called Vegetarian Genocide (that last bit is plain rubbish!)

 

In Muscat or Vendage Tardive (late harvest) wines the grapes contain so much sugar that the yeast cells are terminated before the sugars are.

 

In both wines this process leaves rest-sugars. These wine are therefore sweet (as diabetes pee) and especially the Port wine sticks to the gums like fleas on a (bleep) artist

 

Well so far the technical story, I hope it wasn't too boring...

 

I am neither a Doctor nor a Winemaker.... I am just an educated aloholic

 

Back to Wine inks....

 

This wine does not contain any sugars. It is not sweet and does not stick (your papers together).... Believe me I know my stuff here because I tasted the ink in my review of

De Atramentis Merlot..

http://www.fountainp...ine-ink-merlot/

 

Just check out the Photo of my tongue in the above linked review

 

My findings

 

It doesn't taste badly at a all. But it stains the tongue. This makes it hard to deny that one has been drinking (pretty nasty for an educated alcoholic)

 

But must say I prefer a Merlot wine for drinking and a Merlot Ink for writing....

 

 

Dear Fabienne I hope this was helpfull... If you send me your adress in the private messenger I will sent you a postcard with both Terre de Feu and Merlot writtnen on it

 

 

Regards Peter

Well hop this was helpfull to you too. And of course the offer is open for sending you the postcard mentioned...

Regards

Peter

[amberleadavis]

So, it really is waterproof? You gave it 5 points. I was surprised. If that offer for a post card is still open, I'll take it.

[Morbus Curiositas]

Sorry forget to change the points

 

 

Waterproof only 3 points only survives a drop

 

Sorry again

[Morbus Curiositas]

So, it really is waterproof? You gave it 5 points. I was surprised. If that offer for a post card is still open, I'll take it.

Sorry forget to change the points

Waterproof only 3 points only survives a drop

Sorry again

If you are interested in a waterproof Red... there is also a De Atramentis Document ink red available now....

 

As all DA Document inks, this stuff is truly Bombproof...

 

Don't know what it looks like, but I will ask Dr. Jansen for a sample

 

I will send your postcard out today

 

Regards,

 

Peter

[Dumatborlon]

I should never have signed up here… That rabbit hole is much deeper than I expected and I’m still falling, especially for all the inks that I have to read about all day which just BEG to be sampled. And then others, and then even some; it’s madness!

With my budged unfortunately as limited as it is, I cannot really afford buying whole bottles of ink just to see whether or not I like the colour. Especially not with the obscene shipping costs that some sites seem to be charging. Apparently, shipping from Germany to Italy seems to cost about twice as much as shipping from the U.S.…

It’s days like these that I sometimes really hate to be living in Italy, though… And with you reminding me that there are still like twohundredsomething inks wanting to be sampled just from one single brand that’s definitely not helping… )

[napalm]

I should never have signed up here…

 

...you can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave...

[Morbus Curiositas]

I should never have signed up here… That rabbit hole is much deeper than I expected and I’m still falling, especially for all the inks that I have to read about all day which just BEG to be sampled. And then others, and then even some; it’s madness!

With my budged unfortunately as limited as it is, I cannot really afford buying whole bottles of ink just to see whether or not I like the colour. Especially not with the obscene shipping costs that some sites seem to be charging. Apparently, shipping from Germany to Italy seems to cost about twice as much as shipping from the U.S.…

It’s days like these that I sometimes really hate to be living in Italy, though… And with you reminding me that there are still like twohundredsomething inks wanting to be sampled just from one single brand that’s definitely not helping… )

...you can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave...

Dumatborlon

 

I understand your problem.... I am not rich either.... I live in North Tyrol and it is hard to buy inks here.... Same as in Bozen or Brixen.... I have checked Arthesia.... Just a poor offer of inks there too.

 

There is a special De Atramentis offer in the making. 4=3 meaning buy 4 bottles you only ay 3... This might soften the pain of shipping costs a little... Maybe ordering over the de Atramentis Website is cheaper the owner Dr Franz-Josef Jansen has special rates for shipping....

 

I will be in cntact wth Dr Jansen today and ask him about shipping costs. The discount thing will come later...

 

In the mean time...

I regularly visit Bozen.... May bewe drink a glass off Prosecco together... I will give you a few 2 ml samples of some inks I own...

 

Napalm

 

The Fountin Pen Network.... It's a life long addiction

[siima]

Beautiful looking ink. I may have to buy a bottle of it one day.

[Morbus Curiositas]

I should never have signed up here… That rabbit hole is much deeper than I expected and I’m still falling, especially for all the inks that I have to read about all day which just BEG to be sampled. And then others, and then even some; it’s madness!

With my budged unfortunately as limited as it is, I cannot really afford buying whole bottles of ink just to see whether or not I like the colour. Especially not with the obscene shipping costs that some sites seem to be charging. Apparently, shipping from Germany to Italy seems to cost about twice as much as shipping from the U.S.…

It’s days like these that I sometimes really hate to be living in Italy, though… And with you reminding me that there are still like twohundredsomething inks wanting to be sampled just from one single brand that’s definitely not helping… )

Hi Dumartlon

 

I just spoke with De Atramentis on the telephone.

 

Shippng costs if ordering over De Atramentis

 

1 Kilo € 12,90 this is 4 bottles the rest is the weight of the packing material.

2 Kilo € 13, 40

3 kilo € 13,90

 

Hope this will help you De Atramentis carries 255 inks ( that is 65 kilo haha)

 

Greetz

 

Peter