Comments on: Labels: Dressing Up Your Wine http://www.washingtonwinemaker.com/blog/2009/04/05/labels-dressing-up-your-wine/ Growing grapes and making wine in Bellevue Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:41:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Erroll http://www.washingtonwinemaker.com/blog/2009/04/05/labels-dressing-up-your-wine/comment-page-1/#comment-35945 Erroll Fri, 08 Jan 2010 03:26:16 +0000 http://www.washingtonwinemaker.com/blog/?p=420#comment-35945 Hi John, I have used Microsoft Publisher and Adobe Photoshop Elements to make labels. Publisher has more options for printing, including many presets for Avery labels. Elements allows more control over image and text editing. I just print to plain paper and cut the labels by hand (used to use scissors, now I have a cutter). I attach them to bottles with glue (plain old Elmer's works, I use a glue stick). I've wondered about buying sheets of Avery labels and using Publisher or some other package that can automatically print them out. Some homebrew shops sell wine labels with artwork on them, but I've never used them so I don't know much about them. Hope this helps, and thank you for the good wishes. I did have a nice holiday season, and I hope you did too. Congratulations on the blueberry wine! Erroll Hi John,

I have used Microsoft Publisher and Adobe Photoshop Elements to make labels. Publisher has more options for printing, including many presets for Avery labels. Elements allows more control over image and text editing. I just print to plain paper and cut the labels by hand (used to use scissors, now I have a cutter). I attach them to bottles with glue (plain old Elmer’s works, I use a glue stick). I’ve wondered about buying sheets of Avery labels and using Publisher or some other package that can automatically print them out. Some homebrew shops sell wine labels with artwork on them, but I’ve never used them so I don’t know much about them.

Hope this helps, and thank you for the good wishes. I did have a nice holiday season, and I hope you did too. Congratulations on the blueberry wine!

Erroll

]]> By: John H. http://www.washingtonwinemaker.com/blog/2009/04/05/labels-dressing-up-your-wine/comment-page-1/#comment-35906 John H. Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:19:07 +0000 http://www.washingtonwinemaker.com/blog/?p=420#comment-35906 Hey, Erroll. It's been awhile. I hope your holidays went well! I made a blueberry wine in 2009 from berries I got for free (best kind, methinks!). My first blueberry wine in 2008 was ill-accepted by most (a bit tart), so I was a bit nervous about serving this one when my sister and brother-in-law came from out of state for the holidays. However, this particular batch was "tested" prior to serving, and I let it sit in the gallon carboy under airlock with a three inch ullage for approximately 28 hours. This was apparently all the wine needed, as it tasted quite wonderful when time came to serve it. I even had people commenting with "Wow! That is really good wine!" when I thought it was merely passable. My point is that I wished that I had a good label for that wine, but I haven't had the capability of producing a decent label in all the time I've been making wines. I wonder, therefore, if you would be so kind as to point me in the right direction. How do you do it? Is there a brand of label I should get? Perhaps one that has software to plot the label out prior to printing...? Or is there a better way of plotting the label on Word? I have a nice monochromatic laser printer attached to my computer, and I don't mind using "prefab" labels so as to be able to have some color in the end result, if that's advisable. What do you suggest that would take minimal investment and give maximum results? As always, my friend, thanks for taking the time to keep your blog up. It means a lot to me as a beginner winemaker. Hey, Erroll. It’s been awhile. I hope your holidays went well!

I made a blueberry wine in 2009 from berries I got for free (best kind, methinks!). My first blueberry wine in 2008 was ill-accepted by most (a bit tart), so I was a bit nervous about serving this one when my sister and brother-in-law came from out of state for the holidays. However, this particular batch was “tested” prior to serving, and I let it sit in the gallon carboy under airlock with a three inch ullage for approximately 28 hours. This was apparently all the wine needed, as it tasted quite wonderful when time came to serve it. I even had people commenting with “Wow! That is really good wine!” when I thought it was merely passable.

My point is that I wished that I had a good label for that wine, but I haven’t had the capability of producing a decent label in all the time I’ve been making wines. I wonder, therefore, if you would be so kind as to point me in the right direction. How do you do it? Is there a brand of label I should get? Perhaps one that has software to plot the label out prior to printing…? Or is there a better way of plotting the label on Word? I have a nice monochromatic laser printer attached to my computer, and I don’t mind using “prefab” labels so as to be able to have some color in the end result, if that’s advisable. What do you suggest that would take minimal investment and give maximum results?

As always, my friend, thanks for taking the time to keep your blog up. It means a lot to me as a beginner winemaker.

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