Bleasdale's Fortis-et-Astutus-Tawny Port bottle (left) and Taylors Wines' Promised Land Moscato (right) were among the winning bottle designs in this year's Australian Wine Industry Design Competition.

Wine industry picks the best of the bottle designs

5 June 2013

South Australian winery Bleasdale's bottle for its tawny port was judged Australia's best wine bottle at the Australian Wine Industry Design Competition, organised by the Association of Australian Boutique Winemakers

The Bleasdale-Fortis-et-Astutus bottle, created by Parralax Design, took out the $5000 CCL Clear Image Production prize at the awards, announced in Sydney last night.

The bottle also received the trophy for best open class fortified wine bottle following judging by a panel of 12 industry experts.

Bleasdale managing director Peter Perrin was present to accept the company's two trophies.

Family-owned Taylors Wines, meanwhile, won the award for Australia’s best white wine bottle for its Promised Land Moscato.

This is the second year running that Taylors has topped the white wine bottle entry list, last year receiving the accolade for its 2010 Taylors Wines Crooked Horse Semillon Sauvignon Blanc.

Sydney-based The Collective Design Consultants, created the packaging for the Promised Land Moscato.

Judges noted the bottle features a number of innovative design features including the use of applied ceramic labelling which features the iconic Taylors seahorse, a branded bottleneck and a fresh white screw cap.

Other prize winners included: Victoria's Sam Miranda winery which took out the boutique sparkling wine category for its Prosecco NV; De Bortoli in the open class sparling category for its Este Sparkling Cuvee Vintage 2006 bottle; and Margaret River's House of Cards winery in the open class red wine category for its The Royals Cabernet Sauvignon 2011.

Both the De Bortoli and House of cards bottles were also created by the Collective Design Consultants.