Wine labels, étiquettes de vin, Weinetiketten, etichette di vino, etiquetas de vino, rótulos de vinho
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Wine labels, étiquettes de vin, Weinetiketten, etichette di vino, etiquetas de vino, rótulos de vinho
Contents of this Page
Only wines made out of grapes are considered as "true" wine in the following.
In the geographic-historical part no more than two labels per country and per 50 years period are shown.
No effort was made to choose the nicest labels. On the contrary, the labels were selected as representative of their country and epoch either for their graphics or for the quality of the wine.
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Names of countries (or time spans) followed by an asterisk* refer to countries not growing grapes (at that time) but producing (part of) their wine(s) by importing fresh or lyophilised grapes of provenance undeclared on the label.
Geopolitical boundaries underwent dramatic changes during the last 200 years in Central Europe and in the Balkans. Attribution of a wine to a given country, in this page, refers to the present state boundaries and may contradict inscriptions appearing on old labels.
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This Caucasian Republic proclaimed independence from Georgia on September 30th, 1993, after two years of Abkhazian-Georgian war. It is governed by its own national parliament. |
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One of the 10 South African homelands. KwaNdebele was granted independence and self-government in 1984. It was never recognised by any other country of the world. It was reincorporated into South Africa on 27 April 1994. |
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The Sovereign Military and Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta (S.M.O.M.), short: Order of Malta. It is admitted to the United Nations as a Permanent Observer. The main difference between other countries and the Order of Malta is its lack of a national territory. The Order of Malta, however, owns extensive vineyards in the Austrian appellation "Weinviertel" and in the Italian one "Colli Orientali del Friuli". |
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No wine is produced in Palestine today but significant quantities were produced before 1947 within and outside the modern state of Israel. Exception to this rule is a small quantity of wine resulting from the vineyards of the monastery of Cremisan in the Palestinian village of Beit Jala. |
Some companies, restaurants and private persons like exhibiting personalized bottles labelled especially for them or with their name.
When the wine in question is a famous one, of course, it is preferable to preserve the original label and to add a small, new label with the name of the customer.
In the following are reproduced a few such additional labels originally destined to different Champagne bottles.
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Casa Presidencial del Gobierno del Ecuador |
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André Kolingba, Général d'Armée, Chef de l'Ètat, Chef du Gouvernement Centrafricain (sentenced to death and vanished since May 2001) |
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S. E. le Président de la République de Côte d'Ivoire |
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S. E. le Président de la République de Haute-Volta (today Burkina Faso) |
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S. E. le Président de la République du Tchad |
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(La Academia de la Vergüenza)
Una corta cuenta inglés sobre la Chaupi Estancia y como esta gente nos engañaron después que viajamos a Ecuador para visitarla.
Only small amounts of wine are produced in Ecuador. Moreover, a good portion of what is bottled in the country is made out of Chilean must.
We were very excited to be able to visit the Chaupi Estancia, a vineyard at 2,200 meters near Yaruqui in the Quito Valley. The vineyard was protected by fortified walls and by armed guards.
Entrance of the Chaupi Estancia near Yaruqui. We were told that wine from 32 grape varieties is made here.
After long waiting for a responsible person we were told that 32 grape varieties were grown behind the wall and that wine was regularly produced from them. To see the vineyards and to obtain the labels of these wines, we should have made a request to an address in Quito, i.e. where we came from. This Quito address was written on a piece of paper and later resulted to be a non-functioning web address. After further insisting and waiting we obtained the following mail address to write our request
This address apparently functioned but we never obtained a reply.
Your protection against theft of a photograph of your vineyards is excellent, Chaupi Estancia, and this puts you straight in the Hall of Shame.
On the contrary, our gratitude goes to Sr. Luis Cárdenas who showed us his small vineyard of San Sebastián, near Yaruqui, and offered us a glass of his surprisingly drinkable rosé regularly bottled but never labeled...
Especially wanted are labels from countries not listed above (e. g. Iraq) and antique (before 1950) labels from any country. They'll be rewarded.
There should be an estimated 1,000,000,000 different wine labels worldwide. Those reproduced here and in our sister Site "Hundreds of nice wine labels from the whole world" are samples drawn from a collection comprising 281,366 different labels. This collection, however, is far from being representative of the actual diversity of wine labels.
Any contribution destined to increase it by donating or by trading labels, simple or beautiful, recent or antique, will be greatly welcome.
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This page greatly benefited from the help of several collectors with whom we traded labels.
In addition we must particularly acknowledge at least the following persons:
Ernst Beyler for his capacity to find wine labels from virtually every country and for his generosity in giving them to us.
Kurt Nägeli for the spontaneous, munificent donation of his European collection of labels containing several small treasures and a big amount of novelties previously missing in our collection.
Vladimir Polejaev for sending many Soviet labels and nearly as many explanations about Soviet wines.
Richard Samolyk contributed repeatedly and in several ways to the present shape of this page. He cannot be made responsible, however, for any mistakes or opinions expressed in it.
Dale Simon munificently donated an important set of antique labels including the first antique Philippine, Canadian, Paraguayan, Peruvian, Haitian and Colombian wine labels that we ever saw plus many others reproduced in this page.
The Libyan labels are reproduced from Strat's Place.
Some links to other Web Sites with labels without pretention of completeness. The sites are listed in the order in which they were found. Some of them may have changed the URL in the meanwhile or may not exist any more.
Mike Kellstrand's Wine Label Gallery
Tony Palfrey's Australian Wine Label Gallery Home Page
The Wine-Label-Gallery by Manfred Becker
Wine Institute. Special Collections - Labels Index Page
Wine Lovers' Page/Learn About Wine
redbikini wine branding solutions Weinetiketten Gestaltung
Sundown Online's Beer and Wine Labels - wine label page
Schlossadler International Wines - Label Series
Paola Kathuria: Wine Label Gallery
Wonderful collection of Mouton-Rothschild labels
Peter May's Unusual Wines. Over 175 Unusual labels
Roberto Baruffini's wine label site
Richard Samolyk's Israeli Wine Labels
RISP Ltd. Sparkling Wine Label Galery. Year 2000
La collection d'Ètiquettes de Chateau Mouton Rothschild
Wine Labels from all over the World are found here ( Leif Borg)
Welcome to GEORGIAN WINE ON INTERNET! [ Georgian Wine: Labels ]
Birds on Wine Labels - A collection of birds on beer, wine, and whisky labels
Peter Lehmann Wine Labels - Local artist Rod Schubert
ASSOCIATION NATIONALE D'OENOGRAPHILIE
CROEVER NACKTARSCH WINE LABELS
COLLECTIONNEUR D'ETIQUETTES de BOUTEILLES DE VINS et ALCOOLS
Wine Institute Historical Wine Labels
OUR WINE CELLAR IN THE ANCIENT CENTER OF SIENA
Benvenuti nel vigneto: uva e vino
Pagine Web di Michele Tregnaghi
Nelson Pang's Wine Label Collection
Sauternes-art.ch, Schlsser von A-Z
A. C. E. (Amicale des Collectionneurs d'étiquettes)
[A site in Czech with an incredible amount of Czech wine labels in alphabetical order per producer]
Etiquetas de Josè Luis Silleras
O VINETY (Another Czech site with images of over 10,000 Czech labels)
Collection d'étiquettes de vin (Eric Inglessis)
www.EtiquetasDeVino.com (Joaquin Segura Ibarra)
The three wise monkeys on wine labels (a page on wine labels in a site devoted to the three wise monkeys)
TodoColección (Spanish Site offering a wide array of collectors' items)
Shopvlan (Belgian Site in Dutch with labels for sale)
SammlerNet
(German Site with tips, exhibits, and addresses of fairs and shops
selling also labels)
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