Christmas wines of 2018

Here we are again at the tail end of another year. It's time for the Campbell brothers to emerge from their long summer slumber and finally do some work on something important. Wine was produced and bottled, labels created and attached, brochures written and printed, and here you are to view the result.

We settled on the theme of 'keep it stupid, simple' for this year and so, without much more forethought, we present the labels.

Wine-Me-Up

What ended up as the label for the white wine actually started out as a visit to a country store just north of Port Perry, ON. On the front lawn of the store, more like a field really, was an old Coke wagon and we couldn't pass up the opportunity to take a few pictures before going inside and buying some stuff.

Ralph and I both took turns on the seat and also pretending we were pulling the buggy while the other one took the pictures.

Coke wagon separated from background

This is one of the close up shots of the buggy that was used for the red wine label.

The reins and harness were taken from pictures on the internet. If you look at them they really don't make much sense at all. To make them sort of fit the reins had to be twisted through a non-existant dimension.

Oh, I do believe I mentioned that the buggy was in a field, the gravel road was inserted later as well.

Ralph Campbell, 'reins' of the outfit.

The picture of Ralph was cut and pasted onto the buckboard from another one of the shots we took. We did it because this photograph was the best shot of me pulling the wagon.

See what we have to go through.

And then there was red.

Campbell Shack Wine

The wagon you know where it came from. Us on the couch was shot in my living room. The rest of the image was sourced through the net. Even the couch we are shown here sitting on came from there. I think the 'Secret Hideout' sign came from a video game, which one I'm not too sure. The background was actually the shot of the shack. The picture was lightened to more easily see.


And as has been our want a brochure was produced for a bonus handout to sort of tie in a storyline of the brothers.


Here is what the front of that looked like.

Ralph Campbell, 'reins' of the outfit.

 The left side of the front page looked like:

In the middle of the fold was the following:

The inside of the brochure looked like this.

First the left and centre panels:

And the centre right looked this way:

And that's all folks. Thank you.