If you want to create your own wine labels, visit your local wine merchant and take a close look at the labels on the bottles.  Wine label design for existing brands vary from traditional motifs to modern looks and humorous to artistic.

photo credit: Egan Snow

Most common colors used for wine label design are earth tones, dark green, oranges and dark blues. Using desktop publishing software you can create your own wine label design.

You have to create a motif or graphic and think about style (traditional - old world or modern look) and script type font; and you will need to know the wine brand name, wine type and name.

If you are creating a label for commercial line, you will also need to mark date of manufacturing. The design of wine labels attracts the consumer on the basis of which the buyer evaluates a wine.