Bottle Labels – 2022
Wines Bottled in 2022
Note: These labels are from wines bottled in 2022, not started in 2022.
Continuing the concept of using a faded background image, the Barbera has a scene from Tuscany.
Although the individual gallons were bottled in 2021, the 2020 Meritage and Meritage+ barrels were bottled in 2022. As with our other collaborations, there are 2 versions of each label, one with my logo (Grape Warrior) and one with my son’s logo (Grape Vine Wrapped Sword).
I have a case of the 2018 Metheglin and two cases each of the 2019 Merlot and Zinfandel. Since these wines will be around for at least a few more years, I decided to re-label them using a background.
The Metheglin has a honey comb background. For the Merlot and Zinfandel, I took the photo that was on the original label, stretched and faded it, and used it as a background. All labels have the “Fazekas Family Winery” name.
With the west coast grapes coming, I bottled everything in production except the barrels, the FWK Super Tuscan and FWK Rhone blend (Syrah, Petite Sirah, Merlot). It was a hectic several days.
I tried sparkling a gallon of the Chardonnay. I used the amount of carbonating sugar I’d use for beer … which is about half of what is used for wine, so it doesn’t sparkle a lot.
I made a design change — I added the Start Date to the label, so instead of “bottled 10/04/2022” the line now reads “S 04/15/2022 – B 10/04/2022”. Given that the vintage year is on every bottle this may be overkill, but I like it.
The background for the Strawberry is a photo posted by Cherry Puffling on WMT, used with permission:
The barrel aged wines typically spend 12 month in oak, until the following year’s wines are ready for barrel, so they are bottled 13 months after starting.
The background is a photo posted by Kraffty on WMT, a time elapsed starlight photo. His original is much prettier. Unfortunately Avery Design & Print (label making software) doesn’t handle high resolution graphics, so it reduced the resolution a lot. But all-in-all, it makes a great label!
The “Port” is made from a blend of the 2021 Rhone and Super Tuscan. What’s special about this one is I took a graphic of a dancer and modified it — the dancer filled the graphic, and would have to be lightened severely to use “as is”. So I used Paint.NET to stretch the background, producing a large area where the text is easily readable.
