Bottle Labels – 2022

by Bryan · Published August 28, 2023 · Updated November 16, 2023

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.