On occasion, what's outside a wine bottle is more impressive than what was within. Sometimes the name of a wine is so peculiar that you want to remember it forever. Or maybe the memories you created while drinking the bottle are worth journaling. There are lots of reasons to collect wine labels; follow these steps to learn how.
Instructions
1. Learn remove wine labels. Some experienced collectors can look at a label and know the best way to remove it; others use trial and error with each bottle. For all intents and purposes, removing wine labels involves steam, water, heat, ice or a razor or a combination of these. The best method depends on the glue used, the age of the bottle and its continent of origin.
2. Get a photo album or a scrapbook with pages that you can add or remove.
3. Buy wines from all of the major wine-making places: Australia, France, Italy, Germany, New Zealand and California. Buy wines you think you'll enjoy with labels you'd like to save.
4. Add your labels to your book with a glue stick. Include notes on the wine, the date you drank it and anything else you'd like to remember about the occasion.
5. Start collecting wines from less well-known regions. Buy wines from Missouri, Southern Illinois, Malta and Israel and add these labels to your book.
6. Browse your local wine shop for wines with unusual names, like "(oops)." Look for beautiful labels, too; Audubon Cellars makes wines with replicas of Audubon's birds on the label.
7. Find some very old wine labels for your collection. Most of the time, you won't find these still attached to a bottle, much less one with wine still in it. You'll have to buy these from other collectors.
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