Saturday, March 21, 2015

Wine Labels

My wife Camille and I just purchased a pair of quarter orphan barrels of wine from Domenico's Winery in San Carlos. What that means is we have wine that we will bottle ourselves at the winery later this year and next year from barrels of wine created by members of the winery's wine-making club, Bacchus. One is a 2014 Amador County Aglianico and the other is a 2014 Amador County Primitivo.

Each year the club works with the winemaster, Dominick Chirichillo, to press, barrel, blend, and bottle fantastic wines from grapes grown around Northern California. Some of the wine which has been pressed and barreled, is left over - or "orphaned" - and the winery has a tasting out of the barrels for the general public. You can buy a barrel to bottle yourself at the winery, or, if you're lucky, you can find others to go in on a barrel and split it.

We were lucky enough to find two barrels we really loved and some partners to get a quarter of each. In return for the favor of doing a split, I'm going to design their wine labels. Below are some of the labels I've designed for our and our partner's wines along with some others.