Hillbilly Bill
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I have seen this subject touched upon, but the threads always seem to diverge into discussions about label design, software, etc... hence the new thread dedicated only to the year on the wine bottle label
Tonight I bottled the remainder of my first batch of wine. I made my own labels and put the month/year on the label when the wine was bottled.
However... I read this week that wines are identified by the vintage of the grapes/fruit that the wine is made from. For instance, I may not bottle my grape wine until February, but most likely the grape vintage is from the previous year (or older). So... a grape wine bottled in February 2010 would actually be a 2009 vintage wine unless it came from the Southern Hemisphere and was extremely fresh.
There are all kinds of extenuating circumstances that can complicate this issue, but I will not get into that in this introductory post. I will simply ask:
How do you guys determine the year you put on your wine bottle labels?
HB
Tonight I bottled the remainder of my first batch of wine. I made my own labels and put the month/year on the label when the wine was bottled.
However... I read this week that wines are identified by the vintage of the grapes/fruit that the wine is made from. For instance, I may not bottle my grape wine until February, but most likely the grape vintage is from the previous year (or older). So... a grape wine bottled in February 2010 would actually be a 2009 vintage wine unless it came from the Southern Hemisphere and was extremely fresh.
There are all kinds of extenuating circumstances that can complicate this issue, but I will not get into that in this introductory post. I will simply ask:
How do you guys determine the year you put on your wine bottle labels?
HB