Tequila Labels
Tequila bottles are the least cooperative shape in the drinks aisle. Heavy glass, square bodies with rounded corners, tapered shoulders, moulded ribs, hand-finished surfaces — the bottle is a large part of what you are selling, and none of it is the flat cylinder that label stock is happiest on. Get the material wrong and the label flags at a corner within a week of sitting on a shelf.
The bottle fights the label
A rigid facestock wants to stay flat. Wrap it around a taper or across a corner radius and it stores that tension, then releases it slowly at the edges — the classic lifted corner on an otherwise beautiful bottle. The fix is a conformable facestock thin and soft enough to take the curve, married to an adhesive with enough flow to wet out on glass that may not be perfectly smooth in the first place. Artisanal and small-batch bottles are often hand-finished, which means a slightly uneven surface and mould seams; on those we would rather see the actual bottle, or three of them, before we recommend a stock. Send us empties with the quote request — it is the single most useful thing you can do.
Ice buckets, wet hands and the well
Tequila gets treated harder than most spirits. The bottle lives in a speed rail, comes out of an ice bucket for table service, gets wiped with a wet rag between pours and is gripped by wet hands all night. That is abrasion plus standing water, not just humidity, so we build on synthetic waterproof stock — BOPP, polyester or vinyl — and put a laminate over the print so rubbing does not take the ink with it. Paper labels on a bar bottle turn grey and fuzzy at the edges, and a scuffed label makes a premium pour look like a well pour.
Colour is how the range reads
Most agave brands run blanco, reposado and añejo as one family, and the customer tells them apart by colour before they read a word. That puts real pressure on colour consistency across three separate print runs, months apart. We hold spot colours against a reference rather than eyeballing them — see the PMS vault for how that works — so the reposado you print next spring matches the one already on the shelf. Metallics and foil behave differently depending on what is under them: gold on clear film picks up the liquid behind it, gold on white stays gold. Worth deciding deliberately rather than discovering on delivery.
Copy for an imported spirit
A bottle of tequila sold in the US carries two sets of obligations at once. From the Mexican side, the class (blanco, reposado, añejo, extra añejo), the hecho en México statement, the producer’s NOM number and any 100% agave claim — all of which come from your producer’s own certification, not from us. From the US side, the TTB requirements: alcohol content, net contents, the importer’s name and address, and the Government Warning statement in its prescribed wording, on a label that has been approved before it ships. We print what your approved artwork says, exactly as approved, and we will flag anything that looks like it will be illegible at the size the panel allows.
Small releases without a minimum
Single-estate bottlings, cask finishes, restaurant-exclusive labels and a few hundred bottles for a launch are normal in this category and awkward for a printer with an order minimum. We have none: 100 labels or 100,000, with batch and bottle numbers added as variable data in the same pass.
We also produce…
Popular label formats
Rolls, sheets and die-cut shapes — paper, coated paper, waterproof poly and more.
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