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 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 “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.


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