Enrico Winery

Enrico Winery logo design regal lion whose tail becomes an elegant cursive capital E with many swirls

Enrico Winery is a new winery located in Vancouver Island’s Mill Bay. They came to Hired Guns Creative in the spring of 2010 for a full branding package and label design for their first vintage, which was released that summer.

The owner of the winery had two firm criteria for the branding: it had to incorporate imagery of a lion and it had to convey a regal feeling. Given these constraints, Richard felt that the best approach would be to create a logo in an illustrated, pen & ink style, rather than something more trendy. The logo also needed to work at various sizes: everything from the top of a wine bottle cap all the way up to a six-foot-tall road sign.

The labels were designed to be stately and evocative of majestic halls with glorious tapestries. They feature a custom die-cut shape and hand-applied cap straps.

Two bottles of wine from Enrico Winery showing white lion logo on subtle dark background made of repeating diamond pattern
Close-up photo of wine bottle label showing a black lion logo on a white textured paper and the winery's website address
Photo of an elegant wine label with a white lion logo on a dark background and a wine glass in the background
A top-down view of two un-opened wine bottles sealed with paper straps that have a lion logo on the top.
Wine bottle with striking red and white label design and very colourful background that's slightly out of focus

The business cards for Enrico Winery were designed to continue the theme of regality and majesty. They feature a spot UV varnish on the repeating diamond shape in the background of the design.

A business card designed to match the winery's wine labels with a regal white lion on a two-toned blue background
Business card for Enrico Winery's Winemaker with a regal lion logo and clean typography on a white background
Business card with a regal, majestic lion in white against a two-toned blue background.