These are the Breaks
As well as our day job of scraping the fur off our tongue before suckling the last remaining dregs from the nearest open bottle of plonk, we have been know to moonlight as graphical designers.
Now, the world of bleeding-edge graphic design is much further ahead that that of the wine world, probably about 10 years. Whereas the graphic design world is just getting over it’s love affair with bright green gradients and wonky typography, the wine world has just about grasped that they can use a sans-serif and people will still buy their wine.
So it’s refreshing to see examples of where the wine world is brought closer to the bleeding-edge of graphic trends. Step up Boundary Breaks, a riesling-only vineyard in Lodi, New York State.
Bold, minimal typography (Avenir! For wine!), parallax scrolling, arty face-to-camera-looking-gloomy portraits – we love it! Check tem out, breaking boundaries indeed.
Well, I think we’ll all agree these labels for MAAL Wine are rather ‘biutiful’, in a stripped-back simple way.
Designed by Gerardo Gómez, seen via The Dieline
When, as a premium champagne producer, you spend lots of money on packaging your flagship vintage champagne in a beautiful, hand-painted, gilt-edged bottle, it kind of loses some of its premium when its replaced by a lo-res sticky-taped printout approximation. And in Waitrose too!
This is really rather handy, and very close to how we try and remember the location and order of French wines – “follow the valleys and rivers, and X is next to Y, etc”. Makes more sense for remembering than coloured appellation blobs. We would love to see the rest of the world designed in this style.
Metro wine map of France
Hells yeah, all the stuff we love! Big black numbers, intricate gold foil, simple type. Top marks to Maud, check out their site.
Seen in secondhand bookshop in Morden Hall Park.
Simple, distressed stencil typography for CS06, a specially aged Cabernet Sauvignon from 2006 made by Schwarz Wine Company. Designed by Sage, Australia.
Snazzy two-colour print job, as seen in M&S.
Because we will be having 水煮鱼 … #wine #riesling
Whilst browsing Wikipedia, trying to find baby names that combined a place in Sydney with a variety of wine grape, we came across this bottle of wine designed for the official opening of the Sydney Opera House in 1973.
According to Dan Murphy’s, an ‘Australian Rhine Riesling’ could be a blend of grape varieties – it would be interesting to know which producer’s wine it was.
Great to see this large-scale mural on the outside of one of our very favourite bodegas, Carchelo. If you haven’t ever tried the Carchelo blend of Monastrell, Syrah and cabernet Sauvignon, it was one of our favourite wines of 2012, and well worth sourcing from London’s Bottle Apostle.
Jamsheed wines have, in our opinion, on of the best clean, modern visual identities goin. That’s not to say they are without fun, as the naming their Harem range of less-expensive blends shows.
Thanks to @RupertJTaylor for sendind us this beautiful, intricate label for this super-limited edition South African wine, ‘Debutant’.
Happy Friday everybody! What a week. Remember, keeeeeeeep drinking!
