Much like the people who make the wine inside the bottles, graphic designers craft wine labels on the outside with years of experience and in close association with printers, artists, and wineries.

Unless a winery is owned by a woman, there’s a good chance that the name and artwork on the label will be a testosterone-fueled cue that what’s in the bottle is a many man’s wine. Just about every ...

Del Mar resident Brian Schmaltz is a mechanical engineer by trade and vintner by choice, running his own boutique wine label Library Collection. Schmaltz teamed up with Robin Akhurst, a winemaker at ...