2022 Packaging Guide

2022 Vintage Packaging Guide

Our award-winning designers will help you to create a label as unique as your wine in three simple steps:

CREATE YOUR BRIEF

We will contact you to help guide you through the creative process.

DESIGN YOUR LABEL

You will start working on your concept with Barlow & Co.

SELECT YOUR PACKAGING

Personalise your packaging and finalise your order.

So, before we begin, it’s important to think about why you chose to embrace the challenge of bottling your own wine, as doing so will help with the following stages.

Once you’ve had a think, we can have a conversation to get an idea of your direction. From here we can create a mood board to ensure that every drop of motivation winds up on both inside and outside of your bottle. When you’re happy with the brief, VINIV will pass it on to Barlow & Co and we’re on to part two. But firstly, there are also a few rules that you need to consider, even if your wine is intended for private purposes.

BRAND NAME

French anti-fraud authorities are strict about the use of names that imply a ‘sense of place’ if you are not the owner of that property. As a result, you will not be able to use words such as ‘Château’, ‘Clos’, ‘Domaine’, ‘Mas’, ‘Manoir’ or ‘Cru’ in your brand name. Given the size of the winemaking community and the importance of existing trademarks, you are unable to use names or designs that closely resemble existing commercial brands, such as the use of the name ‘Lynch’ or ‘Bages’.

APPELLATIONS

With the exception of Grand Vin de Bordeaux’, anti-fraud authorities refuse to allow the mention of any of the appellations in which your vineyards are originally located because your wine is a blend of fruit from various appellations. Subsequently, your wine will be classified as AOP (Appellation d’Origine Protégée) Bordeaux.

The inspiration for embarking on your winemaking journey is as exclusive as your wine, and this same inspiration will form the narrative that will determine the name of your wine and the label design.

Design inspiration

There is a reason why designers use mood boards for inspiration. What are the emotions that you would like to evoke with your label?

PAINTINGS

DRAWINGS / ILLUSTRATIONS

CRESTS / LOGOS

HOBBY PASHION

Birthday, anniversary or memoriam

To celebrate a birth, to commemorate the passing of a loved one, or toast a life lived together.

Personal or group experience

Exploring a love for wine, trying something new or a conversation piece in your home.

Family and friends

Sharing a memory or place, an inside joke or a nickname, or just to say thanks for being there.

Corporate

A company anniversary, a successful year, a gift for a colleague, client or business partner

Create your label with an award-winning design studio

To help you to visualise your brief, design guru’s Barlow & Co. will firstly take you through a few industry rules and regulations before suggesting some design options (see below) alongside some more questions the team have put together to glean as much information from you as they can.

We anticipate that once you begin to think it through, ideas will come thick and fast and it’s inevitable that tweaks will follow.

Incidentally, if you already have a designer, we will send you the specifications for our printer along with regulatory requirements for the design on the label. Please note, you are fully liable for all copyright issues and are responsible for producing legally compliant copy/artwork.

DESIGN AMENDMENTS AND TIMINGS

Even if you’re completely happy with your design concept, you’ll be encouraged to look at it again with fresh eyes a few days later and, perhaps, make some final adjustments. You’re entitled to three rounds of amendments, but remember, you only have four weeks to complete the design process, or we might not be able to accommodate all of your design wishes, and/or additional charges may be incurred.

Your Labels

Label Shape

Once you’ve agreed on a design, you’ll need a label format on which to put them. There are three formats to choose from, the Square and Classic options will require a back label, or you can select the all-in-one wraparound format.

Label Shape

Square Classic Bordeaux

Our designers will guide you on what will work best for your brand while abiding by specific requirements depending on the wine’s destination.

Back label

EXAMPLE 1

BACK LABEL

Dates?

Short romance copy (Story)?

BACK LABEL

In its fourteen years of business, Netconcepts has been striving to be the leading company in the industry, staying true to the present yet setting our eyes

on the future. Our journey began with uncertainty but continues because of faith. Let us raise a glass to the future full of possibility!

Wine name?

Illustrative element taken from front label?

Long romance copy (Story)?

Tasting notes?

Blend incorporated into text?

When best to drink dates?

Watermark

Quote

Wine name

Les Vestiges du Jour is the debut wine by Mike Flockhart, a blend of 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc from the 2020 vintage of some of the finest parcels in Bordeaux. Inspired by Katzuo Ishiguro’s stunning novel “The Remains of the Day , Les Vestiges du Jour is a tribute to devotion. Best enjoyed with close friends while discussing important matters of state or cricket, as (and long after) the sun descends

Drink 2032 - 2047.

BORDEAUX 2020

EXAMPLE 2

Dates

Short romance copy (Story)

Signature

Blend

Winemaker

EXAMPLE 3

Wine name

Illustrative element taken from front label

Long romance copy (Story)

Tasting notes

Blend incorporated into text

When best to drink dates

Design styles

While you have a think about your label format, here are some different label styles and design ideas to help express the narrative behind your concept.

Classic

Tradition, heritage and prestige

Detailed design aesthetic

Classic contemporary Classic but with a twist Bold, playful, colourful design cues

Modern

Your rules, your way! Out-the-box designs and fresh typography

Finishing touches - optional extras

SPECIAL LABEL DESIGN AND TEXTURING

Foil stamps, embossing or laser cutting are available on request. Pricing is based on your selection of bottle format, size of bottle and printing technique.

PRINTING TECHNIQUE PER BOTTLE FORMAT *

Numbering

* EG. IF THE PACKAGING SELECTION INCLUDES 75CL AND MAGNUM BOTTLES, THE RATE IS CONSIDERED TWICE.

ADDITIONAL LABELS

With every barrel of wine, you have the opportunity to create up to three unique labels. It is an ideal option if you are making your wine as a group and have more than one wine story.

OPTION PRICE PER ADDITIONAL LABEL

Additional label

2,000/ $ 2,200

high-raised varnish

Embossing

Foil (gold)

Special cutting ( + gold foil)

Packaging - included in your barrel price

The price of your barrel includes high-quality bottles, corks and VINIV- branded wooden cases (12 bottles or 6 magnums). Double magnums are packed in individual wooden cases. Cardboard boxes are also available on request.

You have a choice of four different colours of capsule, but we don’t expect you to make this decision until your label is completed.

Double magnums are wax-sealed.

STANDARD BOTTLE FORMAT

288 high-quality 0.75 litre bottles.

CAPSULES

A choice of four different colours: black, red, gold or silver.

CORKS

Superior-grade natural “Grand Vin de Bordeaux” corks, with the vintage year printed on top.

WOODEN CASES OR CARDBOARD BOXES

High-quality wooden cases or cardboard boxes, with the VINIV logo printed on the side.

PERSONALISED CORKS & WOODEN CASES **

For a one-time fee per design, you can make your wine cellar unique by printing high-quality wooden cases with your brand logo or design printed on one side.

If you produce wine in subsequent vintages and use the same artwork on your corks and wooden cases, there will be no additional charge.

€ 1,100 / $ 1,300 PER BARREL FOR BOTH PERSONALISED CORKS AND WOODEN CASE

DOUBLE MAGNUMS **

Most people would agree that large bottle formats allow for better ageing. Our customised packaging option allows you to replace twenty-four 75cl bottles with six Double Magnum (3 litre) bottles.

6 X 3L DOUBLE MAGNUM BOTTLES

€2,000/$2,400 FOR PREMIUM AND ELITE CATEGORIES.

** THESE OPTIONAL EXTRAS ARE AVAILABLE AT NO EXTRA COST TO MEMBERS PRODUCING WINE IN THE “EXCLUSIVE” PRICE CATEGORY.

2022 Vintage

PACKAGING YOUR WINE SUMMARY

The key actions you need to take from this section are listed below along with their timeframes.

ACTION

CREATE YOUR BRIEF

We will contact you to help guide you through the creative process.

DESIGN YOUR LABEL

You will start working on your concept with Barlow & Co.

SELECT YOUR PACKAGING

Personalise your packaging and finalise your order.

TIMEFRAME

APR 2023 – JAN 2024

JUN 2023 – MAR 2024

DEADLINE 31 JAN 2024

PACKAGING AND DESIGN OPTIONS – SUMMARY

BOTTLE FORMATS

Standard: 288 all Standard (0.75l) bottles

Option 1: 24 Magnum (1.5l) bottles + 240 Standard (0.75l) bottles

Option 2: 48 Magnum (1.5l) bottles + 192 Standard (0.75l) bottles

in barrel price

in barrel price

in barrel price

Option 3: 6 Double Magnums (3l) bottles + 24 Magnum (1.5l) bottles + 216 Standard (0.75l) bottles € 2,000 / $ 2,400 *

CORKS & CASES

Unbranded cork and wooden case (or cartons) Included in barrel price

Personalised cork & wooden cases (or cartons) € 1,100 / $ 1,300 *

CAPSULES

Black, red, gold or silver

LABEL DESIGN

Standard label design

design

LABEL FORMAT

Bordeaux classic, square or landscape

* EXCEPT FOR EXCLUSIVE PRICING, WHERE THIS OPTION IS

in barrel price

Note: We ask that you complete the Packaging Selection Form by 31 January 2024. We need the information by this date to guarantee your customised-option requests. Without these from you, the standard packaging options included in your barrel price will be applied.

A life explored, a story bottled