Burgundy Ink

[Charles Skinner]

Your favorite burgundy ink?

 

C. S.

[JefferyS]

Diamine Syrah (or Binder Burgundy). The latter is a 1:1 mixture of certain red and purple inks that is essentially identical to Diamine Syrah.

[ENewton]

J Herbin Poussiere de Lune. It looks purple in some pens and black in others, but in most it is burgundy.

 

Rohrer & Klingner Alt Bordeaux is also very nice.

[Joane]

Montblanc Burgundy Red, not only for the cool-toned sophisticated colour but for its excellent fluidity and nuance.

[max dog]

Montblanc Burgundy Red, not only for the cool-toned sophisticated colour but for its excellent fluidity and nuance.

+1. It shades nice too.

[Intensity]

Diamine Syrah. Not really in the pure burgundy category, but Waterman's Absolute Brown is somewhat in that color range, especially on bright cool-toned white paper (though I strongly prefer it on cream paper).

[ReadyFireAim]

Bungubox Tears of a clown

[Joane]

Your favorite burgundy ink?

 

C. S.

 

 

What is your favourite burgundy ink, CS, and what brought this question to mind? I answered my favourite above and would like to add that in general I find burgundy ink to exude an air of quiet confidence. It's just my impression.

Edited November 7, 2017 by Joane

[Larynxa]

Iroshizuku Yama-Budo (Crimson Vine).

 

In my flex-nib pens, it's a gorgeous purplish-burgundy, the colour of a fine Rhodolite/Grape garnet stone.

[Beechwood]

+1. It shades nice too.

 

 

I was given a boxed 149 with a bottle of MB Burgundy in 2007, I already have a good 149 so I never got around to using the pen - or the ink. Having seen this thread I did a swab test and the ink isnt the colour I was expecting, I thought it would deep and dark - a deep maroon perhaps. The reality is a lighter shade, more like a glass of burgundy on a sunny day!

[dapprman]

Another for J. Herbin Poussiere de Lune. In a clear demonstrator pen, if you move the ink around it looks like a pinot noir, and again when writing with it, on drying, it does look like dried spilled wine.

 

Most burgundy and bordeaux titled inks bare little resemblance to the wines either wet or dry IMHO.

Edited November 7, 2017 by dapprman

[Carrau]

Sailor Oku-Yama, Diamine Oxblood or Syrah are all nice.

[dojocho]

Diamine Syrah (or Binder Burgundy).

 

+1

 

regards,

Hugo

[Astronymus]

De Atramentis wine inks http://www.de-atramentis.com/ink-inks-wine-ink-wine-inks-/?language=en&currency=USD&cat=c47&cPath=47

[bob_hayden]

Here is a scan of the inks I have on hand that might qualify. Note that some of these are very old inks. The samples were all written on the same day, though. The Mont Blanc looks too yellow in the scan but it is rather pale. I also see I got the name wrong. It is "Mont Blank Bordeaux".

 

 

http://statland.org/PenPix/wineinks.jpg

[Biber]

PR Black Cherry is my "red" of choice. A "red-ish"/burgundy ink that doesn't really draw attention to itself.

[ReadyFireAim]

PR Black Cherry is my "red" of choice. A "red-ish"/burgundy ink that doesn't really draw attention to itself.

 

Yep...+1 for black cherry.

(that is my other burgundy)

[Joane]

Here is a scan of the inks I have on hand that might qualify. Note that some of these are very old inks. The samples were all written on the same day, though. The Mont Blanc looks too yellow in the scan but it is rather pale. I also see I got the name wrong. It is "Mont Blank Bordeaux".

 

 

http://statland.org/PenPix/wineinks.jpg

 

 

Thanks for the lovely comparison sample! From my recollection, Montblanc's burgundy-coloured ink used to be called Bordeaux. At some point it was changed to Burgundy Red. I don't know in what year the change occurred or if the colour was also changed as I never used the former Bordeaux ink. Today's Burgundy Red is to my eye a cool burgundy and does show some blue. I don't find it very saturated.

[Runnin_Ute]

Diamine Merlot is a great burgundy ink. Earlier this year, after getting a Platinum 3776 Century Bourgogne, I wanted an ink that would go well with the pen. I tried samples of several. Monteverde Napa Burgundy, Diamine Merlot and a few others. Merlot won by a long shot.

[bob_hayden]

To my eyes the USA OIutletStore, Monteverde, and MB Bordeaus are very close (though my scan makes the MB look much more yellow). All three are rather pastel. The scan Beechwood posted has a swab much redder than the ink I have and the writing sample looks darker.