Red & White Wine playing cards
Red & White Wine playing cards published by Inkstone Design, USA, 2003.
A matching pair of packs, published in 2003 by Inkstone Design Inc. of Missoula, Montana, describing different red or white wine grapes on the 52 cards in each pack. In addition, information is provided about the wines they make, their origins, characteristics and dining suggestions. While many of these grape varieties will be familiar, there are many others (such as Aglianico, Teroldego, Cinsaut, etc.) which may be new to casual wine drinkers. There are 2 additional jokers and a publisher’s promotional card in each pack. See the boxes►
Red Wines
Above: red wine cards.
White Wines
A sister pack to the Red Wine cards with different white wine grapes described on each card, from Airen to Viognier, with information on the origin and characteristics of the grapes and the varieties and blends they produce.
Above: white wine cards.
By Peter Burnett
United Kingdom • Member since July 27, 2022
I graduated in Russian and East European Studies from Birmingham University in 1969. It was as an undergraduate in Moscow in 1968 that I stumbled upon my first 3 packs of “unusual” playing cards which fired my curiosity and thence my life-long interest. I began researching and collecting cards in the early 1970s, since when I’ve acquired over 3,330 packs of non-standard cards, mainly from North America, UK and Western Europe, and of course from Russia and the former communist countries.
Following my retirement from the Bodleian Library in Dec. 2007 I took up a new role as Head of Library Development at the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) to support library development in low-income countries. This work necessitated regular training visits to many sub-Saharan African countries and also further afield, to Vietnam, Nepal and Bangladesh – all of which provided rich opportunities to further expand my playing card collection.
Since 2019 I’ve been working part-time in the Bodleian Library where I’ve been cataloguing the bequest of the late Donald Welsh, founder of the English Playing Card Society.
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