Personalised Wine Labels - what are they made from?

One of the key elements in personalised wine is the quality of the label material. You may think it’s just a piece of paper but unfortunately its more complicated than that.

Depending on the requirement we use a range of different label stock. Some include various substrates for special roles, such as extra adhesion or heavy duty.

Your ordinary 80gm office paper is not in the same league!

We have been looking to reduce our environmental footprint throughout the business. When it comes to label stock it’s a bit tricky.

Recycled paper has improved greatly in the last few years. It’s gone from being only suitable for newsprint and scrap paper to being good for most all office purposes. Unfortunately its not easy to make it into top quality art paper and labelling stock from recycled paper pulp, and we haven’t yet managed to find anything suitable.

The next best thing is to source from the most sustainable sources.

Our principle label stock is a premium heavyweight product.

We source The virgin pulp is well managed from Nordic forests. The pulp is elementary chlorine free. The mill itself has ISO 14001 certification and is EMAS registered, the EU’s Eco Management and Audit Scheme.

The paper carries the Nordic Environmental Label or the "Swan label" is a multinational environmental labelling scheme which also has close co-operation with the EU ECO-label system, being a "Competent body" in the Nordic countries (Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland and Norway). The Nordic environmental label is a neutral, independent label which guarantees a certain environmental standard. Only products which satisfy strict environmental requirements on the basis of objective assessments are allowed to display this product label.

Is all our wine packaging necessary?

Packaging gets a lot of attention nowadays, with the media assuming it a bad thing to have. However it is an integral part of getting the product to the consumer in usable condition.

In a business that uses a lot of glass packaging is a key issue. When you have a fragile bottle you become very aware of the risk of breakages.

Sending in bulk is easy as we use pallets, which don't get dropped. Even so the bottles must be in cardboard boxes. Ideally boxes with dividers for safety when the customer unpacks the pallet at the other end. All this cardboard then becomes a considerable pile of waste when the bottles are used. Unfortunate but inevitable, you can't allow the bottles to break.

Smaller deliveries use much more packaging. When you ship by courier the risk of breakage soars, and if 1 bottle breaks it ruins all the personalised labels on the other bottles. At peak times, such as Christmas, you know that the couriers are so busy that that will not even notice if the box is labeled fragile. So for simple business reasons we resort to the following.For a case of 12 bottles we pack into heavy duty boxes with dividers containing 6 bottles each. We add neck protectors to hold the bottles rigid. These 2 boxes are then packed together into a large heavy duty cardboard box, covered with fragile and breakable stickers. As a Christmas bonus each individual bottle is put in a bubble wrap bag first.

A mountain of waste for the recipient perhaps, but at least they get their personalised champagne bottles intact.

Personalised Wine Labels website now live

At long last our consumer website is live at www.personalisedwinelabels.co.uk. I must admit that it has taken a fair bit longer than I'd expected, but then it has a cleverer back end than normal.

What does the site do?

Well quite simply you can chose from one of our great range of wines and champagnes, then select a label template for you occasion, and add your own text. Voila, a fully personalised gift! The Label gallery already contains the following occassions:

Birthday,

anniversary,

mother's day,

wedding,

congratualtions,

and we will be adding more categories and more labels over the next few weeks.

Award Winning Champagne

Our Champagne Damien was commended at the International Wine Challenge 2007. This is the most prestigious wine competition in the world, so an award is quite something.

The champagne comes from a family owned producer in Bisseuil, to the east of Epernay. They are a Producteur Recoltant Manipulant, literally producer grower manipulator. This means that they do everything from producing the grapes in their own vineyards to producing, blending and bottling the finished wine. They only use their own grapes so quality is controled all the way through.

This champagne contains a high proportion of red grapes to give it body and make it able to cope with food. It contains a fair amount of premier cru grapes, which gives it an edge over other champagnes.

Damien is used by a number of major companies as their house champagne for corporate gifts and events. It is available in bottles and magnums.

Our Premier Cru Champagne Sebastien is also an award winner, this time a recommendation by the French wine bible, the Hachette guide 2008. We source this from the same producer, but this is made entirely from premier cru grapes. This is a top notch sophisticated champagne, that is sheer class.

You can see all our medal winning wines listed on our websites.
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