12 Wild Wine Label Design Samples

Inspiration   August 25, 2008  by

A wine store is a paradise for any graphic designer seeking inspiration. Most wine stores have thousands of bottles of wine, all of which are uniquely branded with a wine label. You could spend an entire weekend examining all the different wine label designs in a wine store and still not view them all.

The wine industry is massive and branding is extremely important to wine companies whom spend many thousands of dollars branding their wines. They all market to a certain audience and the designs must convey their message properly. After recently visiting a wine a local wine store, I was inspired to put together this wine label inspiration post, with the hopes of shedding some light on some of the spectacular custom labels graphic designers are creating in this industry.

One of the best parts of being a graphic designer is seeing your work actually printed and in use and I can imagine seeing your label design printed on hundreds of thousands of wine bottles sold world-wide would be a pretty exciting experience!

Wine Label Design Samples


 

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19 Responses
  1. quan   -   August 25, 2008 at 10:28 pm

    These are amazing!! Thanks.

  2. CPG   -   August 26, 2008 at 6:17 am

    American wine!
    Real famous bottles in France are design in a traditionnal way.
    Cheers from France…

  3. printer capalaba   -   August 26, 2008 at 6:46 am

    Couldn’t agree more. Wine labels are beautiful art, and its always fantastic to go to your local bottle-o and find your designs doning their shelves!

  4. Mirko   -   August 26, 2008 at 8:16 am

    The last one is just wonderful. Everything is just perfect about it: the name “tipsy”, typography, labels, bottle,…

  5. Tim Smith   -   August 26, 2008 at 11:28 am

    Very nice labels. The designs are classic yet modern. Awesome!

  6. Gino   -   August 26, 2008 at 1:52 pm

    CPG – Yes i noticed that a lot of the famous bottles have a very very classic design to them

  7. Gino   -   August 26, 2008 at 1:53 pm

    Everyone – Glad you all liked this inspiration post, I will be sure to do more like this.

  8. Chan-Ho Avangado   -   August 26, 2008 at 2:39 pm

    Oh my goodness,

    that Arcanum looks awesome!

    Cheers
    Chan

  9. Gino   -   August 26, 2008 at 2:46 pm

    Yeah I love the Arcanum one too!

  10. T   -   August 27, 2008 at 12:00 pm

    Love the last tipsy one and smoking loon. Great post.


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  11. Gino   -   August 27, 2008 at 1:48 pm

    Yeah the Tipsy one is just amazing. The designer really deigned the entire bottle not just a label.

  12. Anish Trehan   -   August 27, 2008 at 5:24 pm

    I Love Reginna and MCR .. Kool Collection !! nice stuff!!!

  13. 12 Wild Wine Label Design Samples…

    A wine store is a paradise for any graphic designer seeking inspiration. Most wine stores have thousands of bottles of wine, all of which are uniquely branded with a wine label. You could spend an entire weekend examining all the different wine label d…

  14. Sébastien   -   August 28, 2008 at 10:46 am

    A nice bottle is something, a nice wine is another thing, isn’t it ?

  15. Anonymous   -   September 8, 2008 at 9:14 am

    GREAT!!!

  16. Cinccliek   -   October 21, 2008 at 10:13 am
  17. MarkB   -   March 1, 2009 at 5:27 am

    I make my own wine and I think I’m going to design my own labels to go on them after reading this!

  18. Jen   -   March 4, 2009 at 6:45 pm

    For another cool label/design check out the Caliza WInery stuff. It’s like disheveled meets classy. Kind of a sexyness to it.

  19. Steven Patrick   -   May 4, 2009 at 1:28 pm

    I don’t get it. Most of these are fairly tame and traditional. The Tipsy is a little out there but the Kraal, LaRoca, Cavallo, and Reggina are just dull.

    I design wine labels in Washington. The labels here show a LOT more “wildness” than these.