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6 hours 45 min agoAugust 22, 2010
01:15
Pour Your Champagne The Beer Way
Want to get the most bubbles out of your bubbly? Scientists (French scientists of course) have discovered that the best way to keep your sparkling wines effervescent is to pour it in a "beer-like" way. Instead of pouring straight into the glass and waiting for the bubbles to settle before adding more, the best way [...]
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August 21, 2010
01:15
Creating Thirst for American Wine in China
The recession hurt U.S. wine exports last year, but not to Hong Kong, where American imports surged 138 percent to $40 million, according to U.S. trade data. In recent years, China's newfound wealth has been feeding a demand for luxuries. As part of that new appetite, the Chinese – who once mixed wine with soda – [...]
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August 20, 2010
01:29
The Good Wine Company
Lovely feather illustrations are the focus of this packaging for these wines. Design by ILoveDust | Source :: Lovely Package Share This
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August 19, 2010
01:15
Luxury Wine Tour in Tuscany : A Wine Tasting Extravaganza
When it comes to visiting wine country, there's the standard booze bus variety-and then there's the exclusive week-long Tuscany Wine Tour. When you touch down in Florence, Italy, your personal chauffeur will be waiting to whisk you away in a Mercedes to the Piazza Santa Maria Novella hotel where you'll spend your first night (the boutique [...]
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August 18, 2010
01:09
Custom Crush Winemaking Facility Opening in Brooklyn
Brooklyn New York is getting its own custom crush wine-making facility. Brooklyn Winery has been under construction for the past few months. The plant will import grapes from both California and the New York State wine regions and will have customers working on custom barrels or shared community barrels. Wine Business reports that [...]
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August 17, 2010
14:38
Sovio Crowdsources Wine Labels
In a move echoing Domino’s “improve our pizza” campaign, UK-based Sovio Wines is turning to the public to turn its wine labels from drab to fab. Sovio’s competition , which is accepting entries through the end of the month, is seeking “innovative and unconventional label designs” to jazz up its good-for-you reduced-alcohol red and white [...]
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01:17
Lois Sparkling Blanc de Blancs
As a full-service brand design consultancy, Public Creative develops new brands and transform existing brands to work for new markets. The Lane Vineyard released the brand new Lois Sparkling Blanc de Blancs, a celebratory and unpretentious sparkling wine. Public designed the niche brand, unashamedly inspired by retro fashion. Designed by Public Creative | Source :: [...]
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August 16, 2010
01:01
The Stallion Wine
The Stallion Wine of Angelus Estate is positioned in exclusive super-premium class – an amazing wine that can impress every connoisseur. The brand name Stallion comes from the area of the vineyards but also reminds of the spirit and free energy of a young stallion – characteristics that communicate perfectly with the wine itself. I designed [...]
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August 15, 2010
01:28
Colier Limited Collection of Sparkling Wine
Colier is limited collection of sparkling wine: 23 bottles of luxury sets (bottle + presentation box) and 5 premium (handmade bottle + cocoon container). The target audience was business women and we all know that champagne is female drink. After brainstorming we choose collar as name, because it describes the idea of collection very good [...]
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August 14, 2010
01:35
Abrau Champagne Label
In days of old Russian noble people used to keep monkeys for opening bottles with champagne. It was a very popular amusement to have a monkey opening a bottle with champagne. When a monkey opened a bottle, champagne started splashing under pressure from the bottle. The monkey started screaming and trying to close the bottle [...]
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August 13, 2010
01:45
MonteAlto Wine Label Design
MonteAlto is a different and lightly sparkling wine for beginners. Positioned to attract a younger market we designed a clean label with a unique image “corkscrew-bird” under the claim ” Fauna in MonteAlto is as different as our wine”. MonteAlto was launched into the US market in 3 wines, red wine, red oak wine and [...]
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August 12, 2010
01:40
Qaramy 600
New packaging for exclusive Qaramy Winery. As its name implies there are only 600 bottles of this 2006 vintage. The number moved designer Guillo Milia to the aesthetic of the ’60s, inspired by fashion and graphic design and art from this period. Source :: Lovely Package Share This
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August 11, 2010
01:32
Caligo Wine Packaging
Late autumn in Spain’s Alt Penedes, in the hills outside of Barcelona. The annual harvest that yields the area’s dry red and white wines has past weeks before. Yet there are still white grapes on the vine. They’re beyond ripe. Morning mists blow in off the sea. A fungus forms on the grapes. It begins [...]
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August 10, 2010
01:40
Paraje de los Bancales
Paraje de los Bancales is the first wine of Bodegas Pastrana within the DO Arribes del Duero. This wine is elegant, different and with an unusual class. It was important that the image of this came out well, sober and elegant with an unusual class. I chose a one colour approach using lines and geometric [...]
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August 9, 2010
01:25
Nomeolvides Wine Labels
Inspired by the nostalgic surrealism of Magritte and our secret (or not so) need to transcend, especially from memory, was born Nomeolvides name and design, the line of foreign market entry level of trail. There is some romance, solitude and a muffled cry, combined with the bright colors that define each varietal, a packaging component, [...]
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August 8, 2010
01:14
Jeannie Cho Lee Is the Asian Wine Market’s Own Julia Child
Gary V.'s got nothing on Jeannie C. The wine and Asian food pairings Jeannie Cho Lee dreams up are about as diverse as her background: Master of Wine from the Institute of Masters of Wine in London and a Master of Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Born in Seoul, raised in the [...]
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August 7, 2010
01:29
Amelia Park Wines Packaging Design
Amelia Park Wines created in 2009, produces exceptional wines from one of Western Australia’s most renowned winemaking regions, by one of the of the country's most awarded winemakers. Glasfurd & Walker worked with Amelia Park Wines to develop a brand that reflected their passion for craft and tradition with a dedication to producing only top quality [...]
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August 6, 2010
01:42
The Design Business Bottle
The “DESIGN BUSINESS BOTTLE” was made to capture the essence of our business in connection with the client's business, and that's why we designed a bottle with 2 necks: one for us, and one for the client, after all aren't we all drink from this business? And the story is like this: we thought: “Let's make [...]
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August 5, 2010
01:23
Amelia Park Wines Mishmash
Amelia Park wines Mishmash are easy drinking, great value wines. Briefed with creating an approachable, light hearted sub-brand for Amelia Park Wines, the hand-drawn Mishmash labels express the fresh and playful characteristics of each wine and evoke the aromas and flavours they have. Designed by Glasfurd & Walker | Source :: Packaging of the World Share [...]
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August 4, 2010
01:08
Vinkara Wine Packaging
Introducing a new grape and region to an overcrowded marketplace requires a different approach to bottle design. Small and simple design decisions created something that was unexpected, playful and light-hearted. This approach establishes an instant dialogue with the viewer, makes it stand apart on the shelf, and accurately describes the taste and lightness of the [...]
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