Domaine Boyar
When a Wine Label Captures the Feeling of a Summer Morning
There’s a moment in early summer when the vineyard is at its most alive. The sun hasn’t climbed too high yet. The air is still cool. And when you look across the rows of vines, everything feels organized, purposeful, vibrant.
That’s the feeling the Labelmaker wanted to bottle for Domaine Boyar’s 2025 Sauvignon Blanc. And that’s the feeling we at Dagaprint worked to make real something you could see, touch, and experience before you ever taste the wine.
This is the story of how we did it.
It started with a pattern
Not just any pattern. A memory.
If you’ve ever seen traditional Bulgarian textiles, those handwoven strips of cotton cloth arranged into rhythmic, functional beauty, you know there’s something timeless about them. Something honest.
The Labelmaker saw a connection. When you photograph a vineyard from above, the rows of vines create a similar geometry. Organized. Repeating. Alive with color.
So the design became a woven landscape. Waves of blue and green flowing across the label like the parcels of a vineyard seen from the sky. It’s not decoration. It’s the land itself, translated into color and form.
And that mint-green capsule? It’s the first breath of cool air. The promise of what’s inside.
The challenge we faced
Here’s the thing about minimalist design: there’s nowhere to hide.
When a label is busy, small imperfections disappear into the noise. But when a design is this clean, this intentional, every detail is exposed. Every line. Every texture. Every transition between colors.
The Labelmaker handed us something beautiful. Our job was to print it without losing a single drop of that beauty.
How we brought it to life
We started with the paper.
Fasson Cotton Touch has a soft, matte surface that feels like natural fabric under your fingertips. It’s not slick or glossy. It’s grounded. Real. When you hold the bottle, you feel something organic: a connection to the land before you even read the label.
Then came the color.
Using digital offset printing, we achieved the kind of saturation that makes those blues and greens feel luminous. Not loud. Luminous. Like light passing through a leaf. The white paper gives the colors room to breathe, and the transitions stay crisp and clean.
But we wanted more than visual freshness. We wanted you to feel it.
So we added a high-build varnish to the wave patterns. It creates a subtle raised texture, almost like morning dew resting on the surface. Cool. Fresh. Alive.
The gold that isn't about gold
There’s gold foil on this label. But it’s not there to be flashy.
Think about sunlight hitting a vineyard in the early morning. The way it catches the tops of the vines. The way it makes everything glow without overwhelming the scene.
That’s what the gold does here.
We applied rich gold foil with a micro-embossed wavy pattern, a texture that echoes the precise rows of the vineyard. When light hits it, it shimmers gently. It’s warm without being heavy. Elegant without trying too hard.
You notice it. But it doesn’t demand attention. It earns it.
There are no sculptural 3D elements on this label. No deep embossing. No heavy textures fighting for attention.
And that’s exactly the point.
The brilliance lives in the restraint. The interplay between:
- the soft cotton paper
- the luminous printed waves
- the dewy varnish
- the quiet shimmer of micro-embossed gold
Together, they create something that feels light, airy and unmistakably modern.
The typography flows across the woven pattern like a signature—a reminder that behind all this precision, there are human hands. Winemakers tending vines. Designers making choices. Printers caring about every detail.
In a wine shop, surrounded by dozens of bottles competing for attention, this one doesn’t shout. It glows.
The colors catch your eye first. Then the gold catches the light. Then when you pick it up the texture surprises you. Soft. Natural. Inviting.
Before you’ve read a single word, you already know something about this wine. It’s fresh. It’s honest. It’s made with care.
That’s what great label printing does. It tells the story before the story begins.
The Labelmaker created a design that captures the soul of Sauvignon Blanc, its energy, its brightness, its connection to the earth.
At Dagaprint, we translated that vision into something tangible. Paper you want to touch. Colors that feel alive. Textures that whisper rather than shout.
Together, we gave Domaine Boyar a bottle that doesn’t just sit on the shelf.
It belongs there.
Printer: Dagaprint
Client: Domaine Boyar
Embellishments: hot foil, micro embossing and volume varnish
Wine Label Designer: The Labelmaker
Photos: The Labelmaker






