I want the label to have relevant information. If I’m undecided about a wine, and the label has a lot of pointless information, or pictures, it may make me decide not to try it. To each his own, of course.
When I started enjoying wine my purchases were all label based. I really didn’t know anything about wine and generally speaking the better labels from an artistic viewpoint were found on less expensive wines. My starting place. Now I enjoy most European wines more than their domestic partners and the Euro labels (the language barrier aside) are pretty boring. I think the same can be said of most well made (Wellington/Harvey) American wines. Think about the Casemates label lineup to date. I’d propose a poll of the best labels and the introductory offer blows away the rest of some pretty staid competition. The wine in the bottle is what matters and we have been offered a variable feast!
What is your favorite label?
Sometimes a wine bottle is too pretty to pass up and you hope the wine turns out to taste as nice as the bottle looks. Oddly enough, there are octopuses printed on the bottle, so it must be good
Less so the label, and more so cool names. But the label too, sometimes. And one of my now-favorite wines I found because I loved the name and had to try it…so that’s a win.
@mopsie2002 Great name and a cool label. We went to a large tasting with over 20 tables and a mix of reds and whites. Our group of 6 couples each purchased some wine and to get the best discount we all purchased under one name/number. When we retired to our house for a dinner party and to divide the tasting loot, a heated argument broke out over who ordered the Educated Guess. Two of the couples each claimed that they had ordered and that the other couple had not. Since then we never serve the Guess when they are around as it evokes some unpleasantries. Great bottle of juice though.
@ScottW58 Hey, somebody has to drink them at some point and I’m not getting any youinger! Next time you’re in Poland or Berlin, let me know and I’ll let you help empty one. Or two.
A busy label actually turns me off. I like a good clean font and a well laid out label. It’s like the people in the liquor store with a shopping cart. They are serious about their shit. I can appreciate that.
Not as much as a dupe post on Casemates.
I want the label to have relevant information. If I’m undecided about a wine, and the label has a lot of pointless information, or pictures, it may make me decide not to try it. To each his own, of course.
I like the purdy pictures
When I started enjoying wine my purchases were all label based. I really didn’t know anything about wine and generally speaking the better labels from an artistic viewpoint were found on less expensive wines. My starting place. Now I enjoy most European wines more than their domestic partners and the Euro labels (the language barrier aside) are pretty boring. I think the same can be said of most well made (Wellington/Harvey) American wines. Think about the Casemates label lineup to date. I’d propose a poll of the best labels and the introductory offer blows away the rest of some pretty staid competition. The wine in the bottle is what matters and we have been offered a variable feast!
What is your favorite label?
Bondi Blue Shiraz = great label iffy at best juice.
And just to prove that the more you think you know the less we truly comprehend…this article on European wine labels and fine art.
http://www.nytimes.com/1984/12/12/garden/the-wine-label-as-a-work-of-art.html
@foxrunner
Sometimes a wine bottle is too pretty to pass up and you hope the wine turns out to taste as nice as the bottle looks. Oddly enough, there are octopuses printed on the bottle, so it must be good
@heartny That’s beautiful. Sometimes I go for it and figure that even if the wine isn’t great, I got a pretty bottle.
Less so the label, and more so cool names. But the label too, sometimes. And one of my now-favorite wines I found because I loved the name and had to try it…so that’s a win.
@mopsie2002 Well don’t keep us in suspense, what is the name?
@foxrunner Haha, it’s Educated Guess (I’m a bit of a nerd ;)): http://www.rootsrundeep.com/educated_guess.html
Also kinda love the label, but I just ordered a glass of it off a menu the first time, so didn’t even know it had an awesome nerdy label.
@mopsie2002 Great name and a cool label. We went to a large tasting with over 20 tables and a mix of reds and whites. Our group of 6 couples each purchased some wine and to get the best discount we all purchased under one name/number. When we retired to our house for a dinner party and to divide the tasting loot, a heated argument broke out over who ordered the Educated Guess. Two of the couples each claimed that they had ordered and that the other couple had not. Since then we never serve the Guess when they are around as it evokes some unpleasantries. Great bottle of juice though.
@foxrunner @mopsie2002 My science sides needs these to be offered of casemates. A nice mixed case
@Winedavid49
I like the label to say Château, followed by Cheval Blanc, Lafite Rothschild, Margaux, Petrus, Latour, Haut Brion,
etc.
@edlada
I agree but I prefer my bottles full
@ScottW58 Hey, somebody has to drink them at some point and I’m not getting any youinger! Next time you’re in Poland or Berlin, let me know and I’ll let you help empty one. Or two.
@edlada Your taste is impeccable!
A busy label actually turns me off. I like a good clean font and a well laid out label. It’s like the people in the liquor store with a shopping cart. They are serious about their shit. I can appreciate that.
Not at all.
I don’t like labels with skulls on them. Maybe it’s a ghost thing…
@NightGhost so, no TO river for you!
@rjquillin Nope. No River wine glasses either.