Spirits and drinks packaging

 

Distinctive wine & spirits packaging

Specialist packaging tailored for the drinks industry

 
 

Launch your drinks product confidently with carefully crafted bottle boxes, and luxury labels. Our drinks packaging design and prototyping services are perfect spirits, wine and ready to drink cocktail packaging.


 
 

Packaging design for spirits

 

Benefit from our expert knowledge

Unique brands deserve expert attention. Let us take your packaging project from concept to creation. You won’t have to worry about a thing, we’ll take into consideration your budget, your production, and what effect you’ll need to make the most impact.

Whether you’re looking to create a uniquely shaped bottle or a stand out design to wrap around a simple bottle or can, we can help get the attention you’re looking for.

With 180 years of packaging design and production experience we know how to design unique packaging that will work for you, your customer, and your production processes.

Fully custom packaging design service

We can design elegant glass bottles created perfectly to specification, to give you the weight and security you need whist looking stunning on shelf. We can also help design sleeves, creative paper wraps and labels for cans and bottles. Our services can be tailored to fit your needs and budget.

Whittakers Gin Digiply Premium Foiled Bottle Packaging for Pink Particular Gin and 70cl Spirits bottles
 
Haig Club Whisky Creative Packaging - Christmas Influencer Marketing Box Diageo for David Beckham Whisky using Blue Ink
 

Environmentally friendly luxury spirits packaging

Sustainability advice

We’re proactive in advising environmental and sustainable solutions for every packaging project we take on. This could be by offering alternatives to plastic and foam, or reducing them to a minimum and making them easy to separate for recycling. More suitable card materials can be sourced, that are not just sustainable and recyclable, but could also be a higher quality, possibly stronger and much better to print onto. All without compromising your brand.

Recyclable packaging

As you are probably already well aware, recycling guidelines and rules are ever changing in the UK. By working with us, you can guarantee your packaging meets the national OPRL standards for recyclability. We can design packaging with fully recyclable materials, that are easy to separate, and give you the best practice advice for labelling your packaging.

Vegan packaging

If you’ve got a vegan friendly brand and product, the last thing you’ll want is to find out that your packaging is made using animal glue or inks. By working with us, we can offer the extra certainty that your packaging is vegan too.

Reduce your carbon footprint

All our packaging is made in the UK and EU, using FSC certified materials sourced from market leading suppliers with whom we have long established relationships. This ensures the availability of high quality stock, with guaranteed and improved lead-times, as well as the assurance that your packaging hasn’t been on a world tour.

As well as recommending suitable materials and increasing the shipping efficiency, we design packaging that can be flat packed, and advise palletisation methods for pre-assembled units so that your packaging takes up fewer pallets.

 
Generic SKU box packaging solution in brown kraft material for Copper Dog scotch whisky. Featuring brown kraft material and copper foil. Made in Britain.

Spirits packaging production

Consistent production quality

Designs with curved surfaces and special finishes can be tricky to get right, which is why we use trusted suppliers and oversee the production of each and every print and mould job. We can offer great production lead times with suppliers we work with repeatedly, so you can trust that repeat orders will be consistent.

Our trusted drinks packaging suppliers

We know that consistency and quality is key to producing a quality product, which is why we never outsource our packaging production to the far east - all our cans, bottles and boxes are made in the UK and EU, which means you can get a high quality product with much better lead times, and very competitive pricing.

 
 
Bowmore premium gift box social marketing packaging for high end spirits. Oyster Luge Ritual Atomiser box using VECO2 style registered to Pillbox Design Ltd

Premium finishes

Pantone matched print

Whether you are looking to produce a run of packaging with us or get a prototype made, we offer a colour matching service on printed colours and foils. We can match to printed samples and most colour books including Pantone colours and metallics and Kurz foils.

Luxury print finishes and hand finishing services

Our boxes and labels are available with a huge selection of premium materials, printing, and finishing effects. The list below shows some of the finishes available with our prototypes and production runs available on boxes and labels. Finish effects on bottles and cans vary between production processes.

Example finishes:

 
Creative packaging design for Kraken Rum Miniatures - Kraken Crate multipack box packaging for spirits miniatures in 5cl bottles.

Colour matched

Colour matched between products

As both designers and printers, we understand the importance of colour correctness and consistency between the quality of your bottle or can and any outer packaging. Whether you’re launching a brand extension into a new area or simply want to ensure a perfect launch, your high standards are our high standards.

 
 
The Lost Explorer Matt Mezcal packaging design featuring fantastical creatures illustrations. Packaging design and production made in britain by Pillbox Design Ltd
 

Popular spirits packaging

Premium 70cl bottle boxes

Perfect for retailing high end spirits bottles and wines, luxury printed bottle boxes protect and present your bottle, whilst also adding valuable surfaces for branding.

 
 
Longtooth Gin premium gold and silver bottle box for 70cl London Gin using digiply design registered to Pillbox Design and manufactured in the UK.
 

Premium bottle labels

Printed labels offer unique opportunities within spirits bottle designs to apply embossing, foil colours, and a hint at the style and quality of the product. Clear labels give a confident direct transfer look at a fraction of the cost, whereas quality paper labels give a tactile feel perfect for a classic premium effect.

 
 
Generic SKU box packaging solution in brown kraft material for Copper Dog scotch whisky. Featuring brown kraft material and copper foil. Made in Britain.
 

Flatpack glueless rigid gift boxes

Our promotional spirits packaging can be tailored for any size bottles, from a magnum of champagne to a 75cl miniature bottle, and can be tailored with premium fitments. The box below is our glueless vegan VECO2 rigid box.

 
 
Premium eco-friendly Ciroc Miniature 50cl Bottle Gift Box Packaging suitable for Croxsons bottles. Featuring gold foil and premium black materials in VECO2 glueless vegan rigid box style
 

spirits Miniature gift boxes

Retail packaging for miniatures can come in many forms - from a windowed box to a christmas cracker.

 
Brown kraft with gold detailing Single malt Irish whiskey miniatures bottle gift box of 3 spirits shown with a glass and leaves
 

Postal boxes

We can design and produce all kinds of mail order boxes, from sustainable options to luxury boxes perfect for helping you make an impression on your customers at home. Our luxury mailer boxes can offer unique solutions for delivering high end spirits safely in the post. All cases can be designed to hold interchangeable fitments, so you can order one box to suit a range of sets.

 
 
 

Christmas spirits bottle gift sets

We can help to design creative gift packaging for miniature bottles or full sized gift sets, all with fully recyclable paper fitments.

 
 

Influencer marketing boxes

Looking for something more creative?

Check out our social marketing packaging for influencers - we can tailor-make packaging for just about any product using high-end sustainable card and wood, and we’re always coming up with ways to make premium fitments to replace non-recyclables like foam and plastics with FSC-certified sustainable materials.