Fun Finds: Green Wine Bottles

We are all about reducing, reusing and recycling as much as possible for the benefit of Mother Earth. Besides, there are so many fun and creative options when it comes to reusing things and turning them into something else equally as fabulous as what they were before. So, when we found Green Wine Bottles, we knew we had hit the jackpot. Artist David Guilfoose re-purposes old wine bottles into amazing sculptures, lamps, candlesticks and vases. Wine and recycling? Its an ideal combination!

Green Wine Bottles.com Lamps

These Corkscrew Lamps would look so beautiful all lit up – hanging in a kitchen, dining room – or even on a porch or patio, outdoors. Made to hold tea candles, each bottle is hand cut and polished, a elegant combination of form and function!

GreenWineBottles.com Candlesticks, recylced wine bottles, repurposed wine bottles

How awesomely brilliant are these Lip to Lip Wine Sip Candlesticks? Here, artist Gavid Guilfoose has handcrafted candlesticks from two separate cut and polished wine bottles that he’s connected together at the lips. Wouldn’t these look great on your tabletop at your next dinner party?

GreenWineBottles.com, Vases, recycled wine bottles, reused wine bottles, repurposed wine bottles

These recycled wine bottle vases have to be our absolute favorite. The Pod Vase and the Cut Vase are hand finished from recycled wine bottles and look so natural and organic. They would also make great centerpieces for bouquets of flowers at a wedding!

Label Love: B Frank Wine

Full disclosure, we laughed out loud when we saw these wine labels from B Frank. Designed by Talia Cohen, these are the perfect bottles of wine to take with you when its time to have a serious heart-to-heart with someone, when the news may not be all that pleasant to hear.The best part about these labels is that there is a space for you to fill in yourself. All you have to do is fill in the blank – “I’m only drinking with you because…”

B Frank Wine Label

In other words, be frank, tell it like it is, and then pour your conversation partner a nice tall glass of wine.

B Frank Wine Label

B Frank Wine LabelQuite the clever idea, if you ask us.

Label Love: Armand De Brignac

We’re back with another Label Love post, and this one is truly amazing! In fact, these may be the fanciest labels we’ve ever seen on a bottle of wine.

Armand de Brignac champagne is one of the most highly regarded champagne’s in the world, and even their label lives up to their reputation. The stunning gold-plated bottles are fitted with pewter labels that are each hand-applied in France. No paper labels here! After each pewter label is affixed to the bottle, they are wrapped up in luxe velvet bags that are embroidered with the bottle’s signature insignia. Gorgeous!

Very impressive!

Spiral Cellars – A Home for Your Wine

If you love wine, collect wine, brew your own wine, or just love to see cool and stylish ways to store wine, you are going to love this post! We now introduce you to Spiral Cellars, and UK company that specializes in building you a wine cellar for your house.

wine cellar and wine storage from Spiral CellarsSpiral Cellars can put a wine cellar anywhere in your house – the kitchen, the library, the garage, the dining room, the options are endless. Their watertight cellars are sunk into the ground beneath the house, and use a innovative air flow system to maintain a constant temperature for the wines to live in.

spiral cellar wine cellar wine storageDepending on how much wine you drink, you can order different sized cellars – from the Mini Cellar that will hold up to about 700 bottles, to the White Spiral Cellar that will hold up to almost 1,900 bottles. Cellars come with an array of trap door options that are installed in the floor of the chosen room and lead down a spiral staircase into your own little wine storage haven. Trap doors can be glass or wood, recessed, motorized or retractable – plenty of options to suit a customers particular needs.  In about one week, the team will have your cellar up and running!

wine cellar and storage from spiral cellarsWhile the company is based in the UK, they are able to come to the States to install a wine cellar – just in case any of you readers are now dreaming of where your going to put your Spiral Cellar.

spiral wine cellar and wine storage from Spiral CellarsHow excited are you for a new way to store all of the gorgeous wine bottles you design on Bottle Your Brand? Design twice as many as before – since you are going to have a place to put them pretty soon. Wink, wink.

White spiral wine cellar and wine storage from Spiral Cellars
All images courtesy of www.spiralcellars.co.uk

New Year, New Beginnings: Label Love

Happy New Year, friends! We hope you all had a wonderful holiday season and are starting 2011 right – with lots of laughter and love. We’re starting 2011 off with new projects and ideas to really kick things up a notch here at Bottle Your Brand. On that note, we now bring you what will be a new, regular feature on the blog…Label Love.

Once a week, we plan on posting an example of what we consider to be a great label – on wine, on water, on anything. We hope it will inspire you (and us!) and show you just how fun and cool the world of labels can be. So, without further delay, here is our pick for Label Love this week!

labels, creative labels, label loveWhile browsing one of our favorite design sites, The Dieline, we came across this brand of pasta sauce by Via Roma, and fell head over heels in love. Pasta sauces are a dime a dozen, but with these creative labels, this company is sure to stand out on the shelves. We love the black and white color scheme and the incorporation of real photographs of Italian grandmothers and grandfathers on each label – there is so much emotion and feeling in each image. Its almost like you are eating your own Italian grandmother’s pasta sauce. Love it!