Funny wines names and labels that will make you buy wine.
Wine names play an essential role in the ongoing success and popularity of a wine. Winemakers spend countless hours looking for the perfect name, something original, unique, clever, memorable… They debate and argue for weeks! They go back and forth between two finalists, and they finally agree on one just …
In 2014, I wrote an article about wine names and labels featuring animals. I remember spending countless hours on the internet only to find a few. Little did I know there are hundreds of wine bottles featuring an animal on the label. How do I know that? Meet wine bottle …
Everybody loves a good pun, especially wine puns! Puns are quite popular at parties and small gatherings, and so is wine. Little did you know, puns pair very well with wine… So much that they are used by winemakers themselves. So I came up with a list of wine with …
I have a nephew named Josh… One day, I was perusing the shelves of one of my favorite wine stores, and sure enough… there it was. A wine with the name JOSH right on the label. That was fun. So I decided to look and see if there were …
We love wine with a color in the name. Every color has a meaning, a mood, an emotion. Colors influence state of minds and trigger instincts. They are carefully picked to provoke and promote. They all have been assigned with various meanings, but they do remain highly subjective. When assigned …
If you’re a wine drinker (and shopper), you have noticed a very high usage of our faunal friends on wine labels. Do you care to guess which animal name is the most widely used in naming wines? I did a little research, and I came up with some impressive lists – …
A wine label is a message ON a bottle. What’s outside the bottle counts, too. It is the beginning of a story, a preamble to what’s inside. As I said in previous posts, a label is a major factor that influences our decision to buy or pass. In some cases, …
Though most wine labels show utmost artistic diversity, one could criticize the redundancy of their subject. There’s often a frog, a horse, a pig or an eagle. Others feature a château, a domain or an abandoned ruin of a stone shelter in the middle of a vineyard. Some promote a …
As a follow up to The Wine Ponder’s post on Creative and Unusual Wine Labels, I have come across several wines that jump into a whole other category of “What are these people thinking?” BOARDING PASS FIRST CLASS SHIRAZ (SYRAH) • South Australia ($34) R WINES sources grapes from …
The content of a wine label can be quite complicated or in some cases very minimal. It carries some information that can help the consumer determine the characteristics of the wine and evaluate it before making a purchase. The information differs based on the country of origin and local laws …
