What are the two easiest ways to spruce up a wine that you handcrafted yourself? Real corks and a personalized label. Wine label making for your personal bottles is a lot easier to do than what big wineries have to do. Getting their wine approved is a long and frustrating process. Here is what the wine label making process is for the wineries.

1. The winery information. Every winery has a name that they registered as and sometimes they even have several more exotic names. One of these names and the city and state that they are located in must be on the label.
2. The type of wine. This means that the wineries must put whether it is a red or white wine. If you are using a specific varietal, that can be used as your type of wine.
3. How much alcohol is in the wine. Simple enough… People want to know how much bang they are getting for their buck.
4. The government warning. You know what I am talking about… You shouldn’t drink this while pregnant, or drive a car.
5. The class of wine. This tells the feds how much to tax the wine. Popular classes of wine are sparkling wine, fruit wine, table wine and dessert wine.
6. If the wine contains sulfites (either added or naturally occurring), you must put that on the label.
7. A brand name. It doesn’t matter what you want to call your wine, you just need a memorable brand name on your wine that people will remember.

That’s it… If you want your labels to look like those that are on your standard bottle of wine, you are going to need these seven items on every label that you have. Of course, if you are just making these for your own personal use, you can put whatever you want on your labels! Just enjoy wine label making and use it as a way to spruce up your bottles.