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Category: <span>Wine Names & Labels</span>

Wine Bottle Collection That’ll Have You Barking For More

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 …

Wine With A Pun In The Name

Everybody loves a good pun, especially wine puns! Puns are quite popular in 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 …

Wine With A First Name In the Name

  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 …

Wine With An Animal In The Name

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 – …

Wine Label – Message On A Bottle

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, …

Wine Label Clichés

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 …

Fun Wine Labels

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 …

Understanding A Wine Label

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 …

Creative And Unusual Wine Labels

Wine Labels – love at first sight or a swift left swipe! Printed on paper or on the bottle, round or square, etched or frosted, flat or embossed, black or color, wine labels feature many available styles and techniques. The possibilities are endless and winemakers have traded conventionalism for more unusual …

Funny Wine Names That Will Make You Buy Wine

Get your fill of funny wine names! Then go to the store and buy wine with funny wine names… Because it’s fun and in some cases, quite tasty ; ) Funny Wine Names   From the rudest to the most absurd, from the unorthodox to the conventional, wine names have …