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Referencing the craft of the winery owner, fashion designer...

Thu, 23 May 2013 11:03:11 +0100

Referencing the craft of the winery owner, fashion designer Roberto Verino, the packaging for Vina Verino contains subtle refences to clothes making, including the ‘pinking edge’ bottle labels.

Design by Barcelona’s Solo. Seen via The Dieline.

bottlecollection: Champagne Louis Roederer and Philippe di Meo...

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:59:50 +0100

bottlecollection:

Champagne Louis Roederer and Philippe di Meo launch $26,000 limited edition Jeroboam

julien-bonvalet: http://www.behance.net/thoms

Thu, 09 May 2013 16:33:35 +0100

julien-bonvalet:

http://www.behance.net/thoms

It’s Friday! And the bloody sodding sunshine is oot! Make...

Fri, 03 May 2013 16:55:43 +0100

It’s Friday! And the bloody sodding sunshine is oot! Make like a muscle man and crack open that chardonnay.

D&AD Awards Round-Up 2013

Fri, 03 May 2013 16:11:11 +0100

Well, it’s spring: that time of the year where the makes a brief cameo, we scrape the mould off our Birkenstocks and D&AD release their award nominations. As always, it’s a mixed bag of genuinely good work, advertising back-patting and a sausage fest.

Here’s our round-up of wine stuff that is in-book and up for an award:

Mysterium Wine
Agency: Spotlight, Client: Jidvei

A super-gold Aztec-style printed bottle with a spot UV varnish that reveals the name of the wine under a black light.

Rasurado
Agency: Morales y Euba (Moruba), Client: Arar

Very funky barber-pole graphics for this Rioja. BUT we have seen this visual before and we don’t think this design has ever actually been applied to a real bottle. We certainly can’t find any stockists or any images beyond what we’ve seen on design blogs.

Stina
Agency: Bruketa & Zinic, Client: Jako Vino

A very simple white label, debossed into thick uncoated paper, provides a ‘canvas’ to be painted on by drips of wine from the bottle.

Well, they’re all quite nice really, but nothing really earth-shattering concept-wise. And we have a real problem with entering mock-ups to be judged as real work.

However, the best wine-related entry has to be this project, selected in the writing for design category…

The Wine That Sold Beer
Agency: Colenso BBDO, Client: DB Breweries

Riffing on the idea that blokes don’t really care much about wine and would rather have a beer, these bottles were placed in New Zealand wine shops. On closer inspection they are coupon to receive money off DB beer.

Although not nominated for an award, we’d also recommend watching this advert from the same campaign.

Keizo So Lovely

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:44:17 +0100

A clean, colourful and very cool identity and website for Keizo, a new online wine merchant founded by two sommeliers. It’s great to see a wine brand employing contemporary design, and the website also includes an entire section on Madeira – that’s classy.

Design by Visual Fields and Pixel Pudding

Some ‘recently drunks’ from Grogger towers. All...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 09:30:49 +0100

Some ‘recently drunks’ from Grogger towers. All delicious and shared with lovely people, although the High Altitude unoaked Chardonnay, drunk all afternoon in the spring sunshine, was a particular highlight.

The CDR from Majestic is an absolute bargain at £5.99 - delicious, juicy and ripe, easily beating any Aussie critter Shiraz for summer smiles.

The Petit Chablis from Kennington’s Toulouse Lautrec was lemon-fresh and very dry, an ideal foil to the lashings of butter, cream and garlic we guzzled.

Finessed Fidesser

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:45:36 +0100

Simple typographic packaging for Fidesser wines from Austria.

Bountiful, overflowing organic label for Andevine, designed by...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 09:24:49 +0100

Bountiful, overflowing organic label for Andevine, designed by Co-Partnership.

Andevine is a boutique wine brand designed by Sydney based agency Co Partnership. Created for Australian Hunter Valley winemaker Andrew Leembruggen’s first ever release, as a signature wine it was important for the design to reflect Andrew’s two biggest influences, his Dutch ancestry and his Australian upbringing.

Seen via The Dieline

Cover artwork designed by Olle Eksell for ‘Understanding...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:50:45 +0100

Cover artwork designed by Olle Eksell for ‘Understanding the French’ by Elliot Paul (…we think, our Swedish translating skills are limited to Ikea shelving systems.)

Seen via It’s Nice That

Veeeery niiiice, especially the debossed 7s on the cork caps.

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 18:13:05 +0100

Veeeery niiiice, especially the debossed 7s on the cork caps.

Spent a morning looking through Jean Jullien’s website and...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:00:00 +0100

Spent a morning looking through Jean Jullien’s website and eventually found something with wine on it for you guys.

Requesting a table for one, preferably somewhere new and with a view, then ordering a simple lunch with a glass of something fresh and an espresso to finish, is one of life’s very greatest pleasures.

Some charming illustrated bottle wraps showing how the life of...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:55:52 +0100

Some charming illustrated bottle wraps showing how the life of wine from growing the grapes to drinking the wine.

bottlecollection:

Filirea gi, designed by Zafeiriadis Christos, Greece.

Wad a Lovely Piece of Work

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:11:00 +0100

Well, after our last post lamenting the distance between the bleeding edge of graphic design from the wine world, we are pleased to be proved wrong by this beautiful, simple and cool brand identity for Waddesdon Wine, the Rothschild’s UK wine merchant.

It’s an absolutely gorgeous kit of parts, from the super-simple ‘W’ icon to the beautiful bottles wrapped in printed bible paper. Top marks to Paul Belford for a perfect response to what, for us, would be the perfect brief.

Seen via CR Blog and It’s Nice That

These are the Breaks

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:29:54 +0100

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...

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 09:43:57 +0100

Well, I think we’ll all agree these labels for MAAL Wine are rather ‘biutiful’, in a stripped-back simple way.

When, as a premium champagne producer, you spend lots of money...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 18:50:36 +0100

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!

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Fri, 05 Apr 2013 12:15:57 +0100

This is really rather handy, and very close to how we try and...

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:57:50 +0000

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.

kandrakar:

Metro wine map of France

Hells yeah, all the stuff we love! Big black numbers, intricate...

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 10:36:00 +0000

Hells yeah, all the stuff we love! Big black numbers, intricate gold foil, simple type. Top marks to Maud, check out their site.