I've been doing this wine thing for about five months now, and it's been a lot of fun. I thought I'd share some of my experiences with labels for my wine.
After about six iterations of label designs I hit upon the idea of using labels featuring Maine animals. I designed a general format to use for all the labels so now I have an "idenbreasty" for all my wines. So far I have designed labels for the following: Black Bear Cabernet Lonely Loon Pinot Grigio Plump Puffin Port Laughing Lobster Gewurztraminer and my favorite... Morose Moose Merlot
I designed the labels using MS Publisher and discovered that four labels on an 8.5x11 page work perfectly. Each of the four fits very well on a 750ml bottle. I also discovered that ink jet ink runs when a bottle sweats after removing it from a refrigerator. So now I put the labels on my flash memory, take it down to Staples, and have them print it on their color laserjet. It works out to about 10 cents-label and it the labels don't run when the bottle sweats.
Cab won't undergo MLF SuggestionsSome additional info if it helps anyone- I took distilled water and sterilized it via boiling and added it to 3 separate containers, all sterile. Bactivaid was added in appropriate dosages. Each container was then...
I'd certainly be happy to e-mail an MS Publisher file of a label as a sample to anyone who is interested in designing their own.
-- Bob Becker www.becker.org
