Winning wine bottle designs announced

The Bleasdale-Fortis-et-Astutus tawny port bottle from South Australian winery Bleasdale took out the top design award at the Australian Wine Industry Design Competition.

The bottle, which was judged Australia's best wine bottle, was created by Parralax Design. It won the $5000 CCL Clear Image Production prize at the awards in Sydney this week, which were organised by the Association of Australian Boutique Winemakers.

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

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 sports a number of innovative design features including the use of applied ceramic labelling which shows 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 sparkling 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.