What a difference a label makes

I agree, a label completes the bottle. In between batches, I work on my labels. I started from the beginning putting labels on, just so I knew what was what. I have a lot of fun with making labels. Darlene

I agree completely. Plus the label gives the bottle you spent so much time on a professional, finished look. It is fun to create names for wines and make a goofy (or serious) winery name. Something catchy can become a local favorite and friends and family will be requesting your wine by name. That's pretty cool.

Joe

Definitely!!! The label design gives me equally as much pleasure as making the wine. You can see all my labels on my web page. It makes a huge difference on the bottle and is not that hard to do.

Joe Giller wrote in news:3F9EF0EE.9040003 @alcatel.com:

I never thought about a fake winery name. Although it should've, as one of the guys in my homebrew club brought in an easy drinking ale called Ale Bundy...and he even had a picture of Al Bundy on the label. If anything would inspire me to do something like that, that would've done it. :)

"Ray" wrote in news:RhSnb.731$ snipped-for-privacy@newssvr22.news.prodigy.com:

Maybe with the next batch. I should've done something like that, as it is kind of similar to when I put the foil around the plastic cork and wire cages on my sparkling raspberry mead.

I use Avery 8167, but then again I just hate to remove labels. On it I manage to fit the title of the wine, what year, where and what it came from. Date of bottling, Starting and ending SG, What if any extras that I put in it, what kind of yeast, oaked etc, ok so when I really need to know I have to put on my glasses. So what! With a razorblade I'm finished in a couple of swats. So you just like those big beautiful labels, good luck.

SG BRix

Now to put absolutely the finishing touch on it, put a shrink plastic cap on it. They are cheap easy and the final touch in dressing the bottle.

Ray

I totally agree with opinions expressed here. I live alone and I have always "finished off" my wine by bottling, labelling and capping with shrinkwrap caps. I take much pleasure from drinking my wine out of a favourite wine glass, poured from a glass bottle with a label that sets off my wine. It is all part of the total enjoyment that results from the long process in making wine. It would be a pity to serve my wine out of a plastic "pop" bottle with a screw cap poured into a cup! It might really taste the same ( though I doubt it) but all my senses would downgrade any wine served like that. Going off now to bottle 10 gallons of wine. The bottles are washed, sanitised and drained and in a couple of hours or less they will be corked and capped to be left for a couple of days standing on end before labelling and storing in racks.

I personallize each label for the person I give the wine to. If they like fishing I put a fish on it somewhere, etc. I think it gives the gift something extra.