Comments on: Rude wine label causing trouble in US

By: wine cabinet

wine cabinet — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 21:51:12 +0000

I’m loving this label. People get bent out of shape more about wine labels than other labels. I don’t know what I think about it in general but I like this one.

What about the trend of pictures and designs on wine labels? I feel as though this trend more than the others is pushing wine labels in the direction beer labels went years ago. I don’t know what I think about it.

Craft beer labels a lot of times have graphic designers involved and can do a really good job but then other times, they are just trying to make you buy the beer because of the label. This obviously works for low end wines as well for those who do not normally buy wine.

It will be interesting to see where this all leads ten years down the road.

By: Heidi Skrzypek

Heidi Skrzypek — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 19:45:11 +0000

I’d be more worried about updating Jayson’s Doobie Brothers-esque photo. He looks like a Geico Caveman in this shot. The “shock” labels are just schtick. It’s all marketing.

By: WTH

WTH — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 15:45:36 +0000

Excuse me? This label is supposed to be offensive? Has everyone forgotten April Wine’s 1982 song “If You See Kay?” They weren’t just spelling it out on a label, they were spelling it out on radio 30 years ago. I don’t civilization is going to collapse because of this.

By: BeeBee

BeeBee — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 22:08:30 +0000

How about the 2 wonderful wines made by Chronic Cellars in California: I love them! … Dead Nuts and Sofa King Bueno. This last requires you to know or understand some limited Spanish, just so you get it’s English meaning.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 21:52:30 +0000

I’m a NH resident who just bought 2 bottles. I don’t know much about wine, but compared to what I have tried, it is very smooth. For those who live outside of NH, please ignore the comments made by councillor David Wheeler. He is not a fair representation of the people here. Most of us are free thinking adults who do not need our hands held by government busybodies.

By: chris

chris — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:26:09 +0000

…and who can forget that horse named “Hoof Hearted”? LOL… say that one fast.

By: Lateralus

Lateralus — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 02:44:27 +0000

Down here in Australia there is a Cellar called D’arenberg in McLaren Vale, and they have released a Botrytis Sauvignon Blanc called “The Noble Botryotinia Fuckeliana”.
B.fuckeliana is the teleomorph of the fungi Botrytis cinerea, which causes “Noble rot”, and is named after Karl Wilhelm Gottlieb Leopold Fuckel.

By: Katrina Stevenson

Katrina Stevenson — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 23:43:12 +0000

Just send me a bottle. Its okay

By: Ron Rawlinson

Ron Rawlinson — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 23:20:34 +0000

Wow, and to think that just 5 years ago, my Effen Good wine label was being banned by the prudes.

By: Steve Weinberg

Steve Weinberg — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 22:53:13 +0000

I guess the private label I just had made for my furniture store should become very popular. Sofa King Great Furniture