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Deep burgundy and forest green glass bottles command the visual field, five vessels arranged in a staggered triangular composition upon weathered timber planks that read as warm umber and raw sienna…

MontGras Handcrafted Wine Packaging by Ximena Ureta is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Golden A' Design Award in Packaging Design Competition Category.


GoldPackaging· 2022

MontGras Handcrafted Wine Packaging

by Ximena Ureta

Client: MontGras

Golden A' Design Award Winner in Packaging Category

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The Design

About MontGras Handcrafted Wine Packaging

MontGras Handcrafted is a wine label series created for five Chilean wines made from rare grape varieties harvested in 2020. Each label merges two pieces of art, the signature of the winemaker and a different typographic treatment of the vintage number, while a shared graphic line unites the five designs. The labels are printed on self-adhesive, uncoated, water-resistant paper that resists aging and ultraviolet light. Gold foil, die cutting, silkscreen varnish with relief and a matte protective varnish complete the finish. A wax capsule seals each bottle.

The Recognition

About the Golden A' Design Award

MontGras Handcrafted Wine Packaging is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs. Golden winners are exceedingly innovative, visionary, and glamorously dazzling creations that reflect the prodigy, wisdom, and prowess of their designers. MontGras Handcrafted Wine Packaging is expected to be a highly praised, trendsetting, and monumental invention that delivers unprecedented value. This Golden A' Design Award-winning design is a spectacular, respected project that highly benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. MontGras Handcrafted Wine Packaging creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.

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Design Interview

What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?

Montgras Handcrafted is the consequence of a constant search to create distinctive and handmade products with a sense of origin. It is a line of unique wines, where five prestigious Chilean winemakers have chosen five different valleys to create wines from rare grape varieties, uncommon and different from conventional Chilean wines to surprise the drinker with innovative undertones.

They are expressive, creative and are the winemaker’s answer to the passion for wine.

MontGras Handcrafted is a range of very unique wines, worked on a small scale and with important axes of differentiation from other Chilean wine products.

The strains, valleys and winemakers are presented as follows:

White Wines:

-Riesling, D.O. Mulchén, Bío-Bío Valley – Santiago Margozzini

Red Wines:

-Pinot Noir, Amaral Vineyard, D.O. Leyda Valley – Adolfo Hurtado

-Cinsault, D.O. Guarilihue, Itata Valley – Alberto Antonini

-Carignan, D.O. Crucesillas, Cauquenes Valley – Carla Dosque

-Cabernet Franc, Intriga Vineyard, D.O. Linderos, Maipo Valley – Cristián Correa

What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?

It was to artistically represent the daring winemaking commitment of different Chilean winemakers, who have looked for and found rare strains, to create different, expressive, and sophisticated wines.

This project is a tailor-made proposal that interprets the passionate and vehement spirit of this project.

Each wine, that is to say, each winemaker has a different duo of arts. It's a series in which no bottle is the same because all arts are different. Also, the numerical fonts are all different in each wine.

The challenge was to be able to create five different labels, but in such a way that they would form a unifying graphic line among them. Two arts were merged in each wine, performing ten arts in total, with five different font games in each issue, using types with serif, without serif and italics.

The five different winemaking companies were also part of the change complexity in this project.

All labels are highly expressive and have an individual personality. The requirement was to create a line with a restless, changing, and impetuous graphic, for wines with rare strains, from valleys located in distant parts of Chile and all harvested in 2020.

What are your future plans for this award winning design?

My advice for this packaging has satisfactorily met all its design and production stages.

Oenologically, it has obtained several recognitions and I feel that visually it has achieved a differentiation that has met the expectations of all its creators.

This packaging is currently sold in Chile and is planned for sale in the most important MontGras markets, focused on Asia (China, Korea, and Japan). But also Brazil, the UK, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Denmark, Holland, Germany, Mexico and Paraguay.

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Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties
MontGras Handcrafted is a range of very unique wines elaborated on a small scale and with important points of differentiation from other Chilean wines.
The specifications for vines, valleys and winemakers are...
White Wine, Riesling, D.O. Mulchen Bio-Bio Valley by Santiago Margozzini.
Red Wines, Pinot Noir Amaral Vineyard, D.O. Leyda Valley by Adolfo Hurtado, Cinsault D.O. Guarilihue Itata Valley by Alberto Antonini, Carignan D.O. Crucesillas Cauquenes Valley by Carla Dosque, Cabernet Franc Intriga Vineyard D.O. Linderos Maipo Valley by Cristian Correa.
Dimensions & Packaging
Handcrafted is a label printed on self adhesive, uncoated, water-resistant Wet Strength paper. It is FSC certified, confirming the commitment to use raw materials from forests grown under responsible management. It is resistant to aging and ultraviolet light.
Bordeaux Label Dimension: 10.5 x 8 cm.
Burgundy Label Dimension: 8.5 x 9.7 cm.
Wax capsule.
Tags
Etiqueta de vino, packaging, design, label, wine, Rare, arte, Handcrafted, Ximena Ureta, Vino chileno, chilean designer, MontGras
Production Technology
Printed on Fasson Cuvee Mareele White paper 90gr with quadrichromy using digital technology on an HP Indigo 6900 machine and its finishing applications on a Digicon. Folia Gold Matte Luxor MTS 425 with die cut, silkscreen varnish with mechanical relief and Mat UV protection varnish.
Design Challenge
The requirement and challenge was to create five different labels following a unifying graphic line with a box that contains them.
Two pieces of art where merged into each label with the five winemakers signatures and five different typographic games for each number. As result all the labels are highly expressive and boast a great personality to create a serie with a restless, changing, and impetuous graphic for wines made of rare strains from different valleys located in different parts of Chile and harvested in 2020.
Research
There has been a lot of visual research, both in artistic experimentation and in graphic exploration. Countless pieces of art were created, a considerable number of paintings that required the correct fusion to produce tension and movement in each wine label. Each pair of art had to offer the design the certainty that the information on the label would be kept in the same place. All the typographic number games had to be different in a distinguished and integrative way.
Inspiration
MontGras Handcrafted is the consequence of a constant search to create distinctive handmade products with a sense of origin, its a line of unique wines where five prestigious Chilean winemakers chose different valleys to create wines from uncommon, rare and different Chilean grape varieties to surprise consumers with innovative proposals.They are expressive, creative and is the winemakers answer to the passion for wine.
Project Duration
The MontGras Handcrafted packaging began in April and ended in October 2021. Afterwards, we started working on the container box of the five wines. These were worked on from October to January 2022. Both were printed in Santiago de Chile.
Operation Flow
This packaging is currently sold in Chile and is to be sold in the most important markets in which MontGras is present focusing on Asia (China, Korea and Japan). Also, Brazil, the UK, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany, Mexico, and Paraguay.
Team Members
Art direction and design: Ximena Ureta
Second designer: Francisca Furgones
Art: Ximena Ureta
Box second designer: Paulina Larrain
Image Credits
Image #1, #2, #3, #4, #5: Jorge Brantmayer.

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