Forrest Kelly

A story that gives you the full pour.

Let's begin.

Welcome, welcome to the best five-minute wine podcast with Forrest Kelly.

As I said, I come from a storytelling background and I learned that the most complex thing to achieve is simplicity.

And so everything that I tried to do, I tried to find the simplicity in it.

The design here is the first thing that I did.

Like after that meeting in June, once I knew that in August I was meeting a winemaker, I got so excited and I started to design the bottle right away.

I was like, oh, I got to look like this and it's going to tell this story.

So the story aspect came very natural to me.

It had to be a medallion.

I create in the mornings.

Sometimes around 4, 5 a.m., I just wake up with ideas.

And that's just how this one happened.

I knew I wanted to tell the story of the Dogon people, the normal flying to Earth in a whale-like ship.

I knew you had to do something with the oceans.

Like all of those things are so true to me.

But I didn't know exactly how I was going to show it.

And I also knew that I want to achieve simplicity and striking simplicity.

And so I let it marinate and it came to me, I think about a week later, the idea of having just a medallion, just a coin, because it's almost like a collector's item to have.

And it's like a gift to give to create a coin like that.