Vino

I like to judge books by their cover, sometimes...  I have occasionally picked a good looking book only to find out that the words inside are not so pleasing to my brain.  Still there is no reason to have a good book with an ugly label.  Shouldn't it be the same with bottles of wine.

At work I open lots of bottles of wine, especially now that it is the holiday season, and seeing that I have to present bottle after bottle I end up looking at a lot of labels.  I've noticed that while we have some good wines, we have mostly boring or ugly labels.  Why?

Yesterday while waiting for the sushi chef to finish my customized sushi box I started looking at the wine labels in the isle just adjacent.  I started looking at the labels there and then continued the search via my computer.  There really are some lovely bottles out there, and I would like to think that good tasting wine abides within those glass cylinders.  Most of the rieslings I've tried that have nice labels taste great...but maybe it's because they also happen to be German rieslings.

Anyway, I have not tried any of the wines below, I just wanted to share a smattering of lovely wine labels/bottles.  So if you buy these and they taste bad, DON'T blame me!

Why can't more bottles look like these?

From Don Sebastiani & Sons:

Under the Three Loose Screws Label

Used Automobile Parts...who doesn't want to try a wine with that name?

Under their The Other Guys Label

Plungerhead.  I don't know if the name or the label is better.

Pennywise.  Such a simple label, nice.  Also the top is sweet, covered with wax?

Hey Mambo!  Mambo Italiano!  Clean lines with a nice little silhouette detail.  I would really like to be at a restaurant and order that (even though I don't really order wine at restaurants very often because it's so upcharged).  "Um yes, could I have a glass of the Hey Mambo Swanky White?  Thank you."

From the Cecchetti Wine Company:

Under the Line 39 label

Orange and light blue together!  Good color combination!

Under the Redtree Label

Now the people at MASH Designs have created lots of great labels for several wine makers, so take a look at some of their creations!

For Molly Dooker:

I know, right, sweetest vintage inspired labels ever!  LOVE THIS!  This makes me want to have a wine and cheese  and chocolate party right now!

Enchanted Path...More design goodness!

Velvet glove!  I really want this bottle, after drinking the contents I would use this bottle as a vase, along with the other bottles from this company!

For the Rolf Binder Wines under the Magpie Estate brand:

Mash continues with good design for Killibinbin Wines of Australia.

The perfect wines for complementing a good old fashioned horror movie!

You could just go to the Mash website and go through their portfolio, but I'll show you a few more, because they are all great!

For Small Guy wines:

For Inkwell Wines:

Please take a look through all of Mash's designs, they're all unique and clever, and read about the ageless Return of the Living Red wine they designed a very unique label for.

Read about it here!

Another design firm with some lovely labels is nine99design.

For Shefa wines:

So I don't open any bottles so lovely as these above at work, but there is one label we do have that comes close, perhaps because the owner is a different kind of artist.

The Francis Ford Coppola's Brand, Director's Cut:

Hello, costumers that come in, can you please by this?