SA's Winning Designs

24 November, 2016

South Australia’s wine regions have scored big with notable wins from the 2016 Australian Graphic Design Awards held in Adelaide’s Queen’s Theatre last weekend. These national awards recognise and document the best in work in Australia across a wide range of disciplines.

D’Arenberg’s The Old Bloke wine was awarded a Pinnacle, an award which only goes to work that receives a unanimous high score from all judges. As well, Pinnacle winners are added to the collection of ‘glass mountains’, which acts as a historic narrative of graphic design in Australia. The name for the wine derives from the old vine Shiraz which is the major component of the wine, plus the ‘Three Young Blondes’ of Marsanne, Roussanne and Viognier, which are added to the blend.

“Everyone at d’Arenberg is proud of this official acknowledgement that we’re not afraid to do things differently,” said Chester Osborne, d’Arenberg’s winemaker.

The Vale’s Hither & Yon took out a Distinction and 2 x Judge’s Awards for its Old Jarvie wine packaging, which follows an esteemed Pinnacle award at last year’s awards. The Macclesfield Chardonnay from Longview Vineyard in the Adelaide Hills and the Clare Valley’s Artis Riesling also were finalists in the Packaging category.

Adelaide’s own Voice of Design studio provided the magic behind d’Arenberg’s, Hither & Yon’s and Longview’s designs, and was indeed the most awarded studio in the packaging category with seven finalists represented in total.

Shout outs too must go to fellow South Australians; speciality coffee house My Kingdom for a Horse, CBD music venue Fat Controller, and small-batch craftsmen Prohibition Liquor Co.

More information can be found on the AGDA Design Awards website