Wine Labels

[LindaJ]

I have wrestled with this for a few years now. Partly out of jogging my terrible memory and partly out of a scrapbook fetish, I have laboriously taken off wine labels. This mostly involves soaking the bottle, carefully removing the label with a craft knife, pasting it on acid-free paper, and placing it in an acid-free sheet protector. There is often an intermediary step of flattening the label which includes the use of several college era economics textbooks (which is their only use since the info is out of date).

Since it takes longer to do this than to drink the damn bottle, I'm looking for a better way. What do people do?

I recently saw something called "label off" or similar that rips the puppy right off the bottle.

I need ideas. Any other suggestions or discussions about organizing a cellar book manually or from software would be super cool as well.

[Alberto]

Hi LindaJ!

Try here: Label Peeler

Alberto

Edited December 12, 2003 by Alberto (log)

[tommy]

Hi LindaJ!

Try here: Label Peeler

Alberto

i fixed the link.

[gabe]

Steam the label off by holding the bottle in front of the spout of a tea kettle full of boiling water. Takes a few minutes, but it couldn't be easier.

[mikeycook]

Steam the label off by holding the bottle in front of the spout of a tea kettle full of boiling water. Takes a few minutes, but it couldn't be easier.

This is the method I use. The only issue I found is I have to press them between two large books after the start to dry, otherwise they can tend to bubble and curl. But it is very fast.

[Varmint]

My sister-in-law has been taking wine labels off of bottles for the past year and then lacquers them onto plates. She gives away a dozen wine label plates as Christmas gifts. Pretty cool idea, although I don't see many Petrus or Tua Rita "Redigaffi" labels on the plates.