To your latter request, I’ll bring Extradimensional Wine co Yeah! into the conversation as a label that has brought something new, yet iconic to the mix.
Their design is by Brian Steely, who has an iconic style in his own right. The labels have a unified ascetic that is recognizable across the brand, yet are unique per each wine.
The wines are enjoyable, thoughtful and affordable.
Plus, @H_Wallace_Jr , Kate and team are solid folks.
They’ve definitely opened doors of how different combinations can be perceived. If they aren’t iconic now, they will be considered so down the road.
I love the labels of Jules Desjourneys but don’t know if they meet the test of time criterion. Each cuvee has its own art to match the name of the cuvee.
I had a von Simmern t shirt.
Great label.
I loved the old Qupe label
Au Bon Climat too
The Chalone labels with the map was great…. Perhaps a copy of Jadot
A fantastic wine that I buy heavily every year, and really one of my favorite labels and bottlings, so elegant. Has the look and feel of a pristinely aged bottle. Even love the wax capsule, despite how annoying they can be.
Cigare Volant and a million other Randall Grahm labels.
The Pegau label was designed by Laurence Feraud, co-owner of the Domaine with her father Paul. She designs all of the labels for her multiple projects and is also a painter whose works have been shows in an Avignon gallery.
Thivin is the other one that comes to mind. Utterly distinct and really pretty imo. Wine also always great. If you are geeking out on labels, also the only winery I know of where a completely separate (also very good) winery uses essentially the same label. Could be fun for your group, depending on geek level.
A sturdy label for some sturdy wines! Much along Valentini as @TGibson mentioned.
Lino Maga Montebuono
It’s not beautiful as such, but design is not always that. It’s a homemade, heavy and serious take on something a lot of people did not appreciate a lot at the time. it’s a testament to what it was to them. Amazing. Have some 20+ bottles in the cellar of 2018 & 2020 and with them I’ll teach my kids
Obviously the wine is iconic, but the label itself is a work of art. Harlan supposedly spent 10 years finding a retired US treasury engraver, and thus the whole portfolio (Promontory, Bond, Maiden/Matriarch) all have the intaglio-style engravings you see on banknotes.
Very on-brand that money was in their DNA from the start.
