Funny Wine Name Generator

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Generate funny wine names for homemade bottles, gift labels and party menus: varietal puns like Pinot More, Merlot Hanging Fruit and No Chard Feelings, mock-grand estates like Château Cardboard and honest labels like Tuesday Night Red. They are invented joke labels, not real wines.

About funny wine names

Wine labels are usually solemn: an estate, a vintage, a place. That makes them easy to tease, and the simplest way is to swap a grape into a phrase everyone knows. Merlot ends in a sound that passes for "low" and "hello", Chardonnay shortens to a Chard that stands in for "hard" and "card", Riesling passes for "reason" and Syrah for "sir". That is how you get Merlot Hanging Fruit, No Chard Feelings, Voice of Riesling and Yes Syrah.

The second vein is the label itself. Mock-grand names keep the French and drop the grandeur (Château Cardboard, Clos Enough, Domaine de la Discount), and deadpan labels say what the back of the bottle never does: Tuesday Night Red, Pairs With Leftovers, Second Cheapest on the Menu. Winemaking has its own jargon to play with as well, from the punt in the base of a bottle (Punt Intended) to the lees left after fermentation (Lees Is More).

The list also has gift labels for birthdays, weddings and retirements, names for a first homemade batch and a few pompous animals. Every entry is an invented joke label, not a listing of real bottles. Real wineries use puns too, so search a name before you put it on anything you plan to sell.

How to choose funny wine names

  • Put the grape in the joke only when it is in the bottle. Merlot and Behold on a Merlot is a pun; on a Riesling it is a mistake your guests will point out.
  • For a gift, name the occasion instead of the wine. Goodbye Tension, Hello Pension for a retirement or Eat, Drink and Be Married for a wedding works on any bottle you relabel.
  • Homemade batches suit the honest names. First Batch, Be Kind and Uncle Ray's Questionable Red lower expectations before the cork is out.
  • Keep it short enough to read across a table. Two to four words fit a standard label in large type; save the long ones, like Pairs With Whatever's in the Fridge, for a back label or a menu.
  • If the bottle will be sold, search the name first. Wine names are registered like any other brand name, and the well-known puns are often in use already.

Frequently asked questions

What are some funny wine names?

Varietal puns are the classics: Pinot More, Merlot Down, Die Chard, Zin and Bear It and Everything Happens for a Riesling. If puns are not your style, try a deadpan label such as Red, Probably or It Was on Sale, or a mock-grand one like Château Trying Too Hard.

Are these real wines with funny names?

No. These are invented joke labels for homemade wine, gifts, party menus and fiction, and the list does not catalog real bottles. Plenty of real wineries do sell wines with pun names, so a name here may resemble one on a shelf somewhere.

What is a good funny name for homemade wine?

Names that admit where it was made tend to land: Bathtub Bordeaux, Basement Beaujolais, Kitchen Counter Cabernet or Estate Bottled in a Kitchen. Fruit wines have their own puns, such as Pear Pressure, Elderberry Statesman and Respect Your Elderberries.

Can I print one of these names on a label I sell?

For gifts and personal bottles, go ahead. For wine you sell, search the name yourself first, because brand names for wine are registered and common puns are frequently in use already. Your country's labeling rules may also limit what a label can say about grape, region and vintage.

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This is the complete list the generator above draws its random batches from, sorted A to Z and grouped by first letter.

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A: 14 names

  • A Penny Sauved
  • Act Your Pinotage
  • Aged Six Weeks in a Closet
  • Airlock and Key
  • All in a Muscadet's Work
  • Alpaca Bottle
  • Alpaca Picnic
  • Another Year, Another Vintage
  • Appellation Couch Contrôlée
  • Appellation of My Eye
  • Appellation Trail
  • Aromas of Wet Stone, Apparently
  • Aunt Linda's Blackberry Surprise
  • Aye Aye Syrah

B: 32 names

  • Backup Bottle
  • Backyard Burgundy
  • Barbera of Seville
  • Barbera Shop Quartet
  • Baron de Bargain Bin
  • Basement Beaujolais
  • Batch Two, Slightly Better
  • Bathtub Bordeaux
  • Bed of Rosés
  • Bee's Knees Blush
  • Beg, Barolo or Steal
  • Berry Nice to Meet You
  • Best Cellar
  • Better Together Blend
  • Better With Age (So Are You)
  • Birthday Chard
  • Blanc Slate
  • Blanc Space
  • Blanc-et Fort
  • Blush Hour
  • Bodega Cat Reserve
  • Bone Dry Wit
  • Book Club Fuel
  • Born in a Good Year
  • Bought It for the Label
  • Bougie Beagle
  • Bouquet Toss
  • Boxed and Proud
  • Bring Your Own Corkscrew
  • Brut Force
  • Brut Honesty
  • Brut Squad

C: 84 names

  • Cab Do Attitude
  • Cab Fare
  • Cab Sav the Date
  • Cab Sav the Day
  • Cab Sav the Last Dance
  • Cab-tivating
  • Cabernet Frank
  • Cabra Cadabra
  • Cake's Plus One
  • Can't Pronounce It Either
  • Carafe-ree
  • Carafe-ul What You Wish For
  • Carboy Cowboy
  • Carmenère Do Well
  • Cat's Pajamas Cuvée
  • Catch the Bouquet
  • Cava Good Time
  • Cava Little Faith
  • Cava Nice Day
  • Cava Seat
  • Cellar's Market
  • Cellar-bration
  • Cellar-brity
  • Cellared Under the Stairs
  • Chablis Chic
  • Champagne Taste, Soda Budget
  • Chard Act to Follow
  • Chard at Work

C, continued

  • Chard Day's Night
  • Chard Knock Life
  • Chard-ly Working
  • Chardon-yay
  • Chardonnay or Nay
  • Château Bathtub
  • Château Cardboard
  • Château de Cul-de-Sac
  • Château de Garage
  • Château Faux Pas
  • Château Frilly Cuffs
  • Château Grand Overdraft
  • Château Haut-Falutin
  • Château Hoity-Toity
  • Château Je Ne Sais Quoi
  • Château Kitchen Sink
  • Château le Plonk
  • Château Nobody's Heard Of
  • Château Ooh La Blah
  • Château Pardon My French
  • Château Petit Budget
  • Château Pinky Out
  • Château Screwcap
  • Château Spare Room
  • Château Trying Too Hard
  • Châteauneuf-du-Nap
  • Chianti Em
  • Chianti Up

C, continued

  • Claret-ty Begins at Home
  • Clip Art Label Red
  • Clos but No Cigar
  • Clos Call
  • Clos Encounters
  • Clos Enough
  • Clos of Business
  • Closet Claret
  • Cloud Vine
  • Collecting Dust Since March
  • Comic Sans Reserve
  • Congrats, You Did the Thing
  • Cooking Wine Promotion
  • Cork and Bull Story
  • Cork Broke, Used a Spoon
  • Cork Saved for Crafts
  • Corker of a Year
  • Corkward Silence
  • Côte Check
  • Côte of Arms
  • Count Corkula
  • Crabapple Catastrophe
  • Critics Have Not Tried It
  • Cru Neck Sweater
  • Crush Hour
  • Cuvée of the Spare Fridge
  • Cuvée Surprise, Mostly Grapes
  • Cuvée Whatever Was Left

D: 20 names

  • Dad's Dandelion Experiment
  • Dapper Badger Red
  • Dear Syrah or Madam
  • Decant Believe It
  • Decant Buy Me Love
  • Decant Help Falling in Love
  • Definitely Grapes
  • Demijohn Doe
  • Di-vine Comedy
  • Die Chard
  • Dinner Party Decoy
  • Doctorate: Cap, Gown, Cork
  • Dolcetto Vita
  • Domaine Attraction
  • Domaine de la Discount
  • Domaine Event
  • Drawing a Blanc
  • Dressed to the Vines
  • Dry Humor
  • Duc de Discount

E: 12 names

  • Eat, Drink and Be Married
  • Elderberry Statesman
  • Elephant in the Tasting Room
  • English Rosé
  • Estate Bottled in a Kitchen
  • Estate of Confusion
  • Estate of Mind
  • Estate the Obvious
  • Et Tu, Brut
  • Eternally Grapeful
  • Every Day Is Saturday
  • Everything Happens for a Riesling

F: 26 names

  • Fa La La La Chablis
  • Fair Gamay
  • Father of the Bride's Tab
  • Fermenting in the Hall Closet
  • Fifty and Fabulously Oaked
  • Fill in the Blanc
  • Finca Twice
  • Fine, I Guess
  • First Batch, Be Kind
  • First Glass Ticket
  • First Toast as Newlyweds
  • Fizz the Season
  • Fizzical Education
  • Fizzness Casual
  • Fizzy Logic
  • Font Over Substance
  • For Better or Gewürz
  • For the Risotto
  • Forty and Full Bodied
  • Found the Corkscrew Box
  • Franc-ly Speaking
  • Frankly My Dear Cabernet
  • Freedom of the Press
  • Fruit of My Labor
  • Full Bodied, Empty Calendar
  • Future Candle Holder

G: 27 names

  • Gamay Changer
  • Gamay Night
  • Gamay On
  • Gamay, Set, Match
  • Gewürz Case Scenario
  • Give Me One Good Riesling
  • Glass Act
  • Glass Dismissed
  • Glass Reunion
  • Gold Medal, Local Fair
  • Gold Watch Reserve
  • Golden Pinotage
  • Gone Fishing Grigio
  • Goodbye Tension, Hello Pension
  • Gooseberry Goose Chase
  • Grabbed on the Way Over
  • Grand Cru Cut
  • Grand Cru-ssant
  • Grape Job
  • Grape Scott
  • Grape to See You
  • Grape Uncle Bob
  • Grapeful for You
  • Grin and Pear It
  • Gris Lightning
  • Grüner or Later
  • Grüner Pastures

H: 12 names

  • Handle with Carafe
  • Happily Ever After Harvest
  • Happy Whatever This Is
  • Have a Grape Day
  • Here and Noir
  • Highbrow Hedgehog
  • Hints of Irony
  • Hippo Hippo Rosé
  • Hokey Oaky
  • Honorable Mention White
  • Host Gift, Aisle Five
  • Hydrometer Says Maybe

I: 4 names

  • I Do Cuvée
  • I'm Getting Notes of Wine
  • It Was on Sale
  • It's a Small Swirled

J: 2 names

  • Just Point at the Menu
  • Just the House White

K: 3 names

  • Kit Wine, Big Dreams
  • Kitchen Counter Cabernet
  • Koala-ty Red

L: 9 names

  • Label Designed by My Nephew
  • Lady Decanter
  • Last but Not Yeast
  • Lees Is More
  • Let's Be Franc
  • Limited Edition of Many
  • Lock, Stock and Barrel
  • Long Finish, Short Story
  • Lord Swirlington

M: 36 names

  • Made From Grapes, Allegedly
  • Make a Wish, Pop a Cork
  • Make Me Blush
  • Malbec and Call
  • Malbec by Popular Demand
  • Malbec in Five
  • Malbec Porch Red
  • Malbec to Basics
  • Malbec to the Future
  • Malbec Up Plan
  • Malbec Yard BBQ
  • Marquis de Markdown
  • Master Glass
  • Medium Priced to Seem Thoughtful
  • Merlot and Behold
  • Merlot Budget
  • Merlot Down
  • Merlot from the Other Side
  • Merlot Hanging Fruit
  • Merlot Key
  • Merlot Maintenance
  • Merlot Sunshine
  • Merlot the Merrier
  • Merlot, Is It Me You're Looking For
  • Merlot-dramatic
  • Mis en Bouteille au Garage
  • Moment of Claret-y
  • Monocle Mole
  • Monsieur Fancy Label
  • Montepulci-oh-no
  • Moscato Be Going
  • Moscato Be Kidding
  • Moscato Be Love
  • Mouthfeel, Whatever That Is
  • Mulled It Over
  • My Garage, My Rules

N: 13 names

  • Neighbor's Plum Project
  • New Keys, New Corks
  • New Year, Same Cork Collection
  • Ninety Points From My Mom
  • No Chard Feelings
  • No More Mondays
  • No Sour Grapes
  • Noir or Never
  • Non-Vintage Non-Issue
  • None of Your Fizzness
  • Notes of Cherry, Allegedly
  • Notes of Leather, Somehow
  • Notes of Sarcasm

O: 13 names

  • Oaky Dokey
  • Off-Dry Remarks
  • Officially Off the Clock
  • Old Vines, New Tricks
  • Older Than This Bottle
  • One in a Sémillon
  • One Vine Day
  • Open on Our First Anniversary
  • Out of Office Red
  • Out of Office, Permanently
  • Over the Hill Vineyards
  • Overdressed Penguin
  • Owl Be Your Sommelier

P: 47 names

  • Pairs With a Good Book
  • Pairs With Cheese and Gossip
  • Pairs With Folding Laundry
  • Pairs With Leftovers
  • Pairs With Pizza
  • Pairs With Reality TV
  • Pairs With Sweatpants
  • Pairs With the Good Plates
  • Pairs With Whatever's in the Fridge
  • Participation Medal Red
  • Peach Perfect
  • Pear Pressure
  • Perfect Pairing
  • Petit Verdot, Big Dreams
  • Petite Sirah, Big Opinions
  • Picnic Blanc-et
  • Pinocchio Grigio
  • Pinot Big Deal
  • Pinot Brainer
  • Pinot Colada
  • Pinot Kidding
  • Pinot More
  • Pinot Place Like Home

P, continued

  • Pinot Problem
  • Pinot Pun Intended
  • Pinot Strings Attached
  • Pinot Way
  • Pinot Worries
  • Pinotage Before Beauty
  • Pinotage of Aquarius
  • Plot Twist-Off
  • Plum Crazy
  • Point Blanc
  • Pop Goes the Cork
  • Posh Pigeon
  • Premier Cru-ton
  • Pretend to Smell It
  • Pretty Bottle, Keep as Vase
  • Primitivo Instincts
  • Prosecc-ho-ho
  • Prosecco and Cons
  • Prosecco Chance
  • Prosecco Opinion
  • Prosecco Thoughts
  • Prosecco to None
  • Public Domaine
  • Punt Intended

Q: 1 name

  • Quinta Essential

R: 20 names

  • Rack and Ruin
  • Racked, Stacked and Waiting
  • Real Estate, Fake Accent
  • Red Wine, Room Temperature
  • Red, Probably
  • Regifted Twice
  • Reply All No More
  • Report Chard
  • Reserve Judgment
  • Respect Your Elderberries
  • Rhyme or Riesling
  • Riesling and Shine
  • Riesling Star
  • Riesling's Greetings
  • Riesling-able Doubt
  • Ring Around the Rosé
  • Rosé Bowl
  • Rosé by Any Other Name
  • Rosé Cheeks
  • Rosémantic Comedy

S: 43 names

  • Sanitize Everything Twice
  • Sauv Room for Dessert
  • Sauv the Best for Last
  • Sauved by the Bell
  • Sauvy Shopper
  • Say Something About Tannins
  • Schloss for Words
  • Screw Cap Supremacy
  • Seating Chart Survivor
  • Second Cheapest on the Menu
  • Second Hand Rosé
  • Secret Santa Special
  • Security Blanc-et
  • Sediment-al Journey
  • Sediment-al Value
  • Sémillon Dollar Smile
  • Sherry Blossom
  • Shiraz I'm Standing Here
  • Shiraz Shooting
  • Shiraz You Were Born
  • Shirazzle Dazzle

S, continued

  • Siphon Says
  • Sir Goose of Honk
  • Sir Sips-a-Lot
  • Sixty and Still Sparkling
  • Skeleton Cru
  • Small Batch, Big Talk
  • Snooty Fox Reserve
  • Some Kind of White
  • Something Borrowed, Something Blush
  • Sommelier Out There
  • Sommelier Over the Rainbow
  • Sommelier Shrugged
  • Sorry About My Dog
  • Sorry About the Noise
  • Split Prosecco
  • Stands to Riesling
  • Swirl It Like You Know
  • Swirl Power
  • Swirled Peace
  • Syrah Lancelot
  • Syrah-nade
  • Syrah-ndipity

T: 37 names

  • Table Nine Red
  • Taking Carafe Business
  • Tannin Lines
  • Tannin-baum
  • Tastes Like Purple
  • Tempranillo Tantrum
  • Terroir Firma
  • Thank You for Watering My Plants
  • Thanks a Bunch
  • Thanks a Sémillon
  • Thanks for Feeding the Cat
  • The Cat Sat on the Muscat
  • The Earl of Grapefield
  • The Good Glasses Are Out
  • The Grape Gatsby
  • The Grass Is Grüner
  • The Judgmental Owl
  • The Last Commute
  • The One With the Nice Label
  • The Opinionated Otter
  • The Other Bottle
  • The Pink One
  • The Pretentious Pelican
  • The Sommelier's Day Off
  • The Sophisticated Squirrel
  • The Three Muscat-eers
  • The Unimpressed Cat
  • Three Blind Tastings
  • Tickled Pink
  • Tiny Bubbles, Big Plans
  • Tis the Riesling
  • To Syrah with Love
  • Too Clos for Comfort
  • Too Nice for Cooking
  • Trust Your Weingut
  • Tuesday Night Red
  • Twist Top, No Shame

U: 4 names

  • Un-Bear-ably Dry
  • Uncle Ray's Questionable Red
  • Uncorked Potential
  • Under Twenty Dollars, As Agreed

V: 13 names

  • Vat a Wonderful World
  • Vat's All Folks
  • Vine by Me
  • Vine Lives
  • Vine Print
  • Vine to Five
  • Vine Tuning
  • Vine, Thanks for Asking
  • Vintage You
  • Vintage: Last Thursday
  • Voice of Riesling
  • Vow and Forever
  • Vow Factor

W: 15 names

  • Weingut Feeling
  • Welcome Malbec
  • Welcome to the Neighborhood White
  • Well-Read Raccoon Red
  • Whale of a Vintage
  • Whatever the Waiter Said
  • White Elephant Red
  • White Wine, Fridge Door
  • Wild Chard
  • Wine Rack Decoration
  • Without Reservation
  • Work Chard, Play Chard
  • Working Glass Hero
  • World's Okayest Boss
  • Wrecking Cru

Y: 4 names

  • Yeast of My Worries
  • Yes Syrah
  • Yes We Decant
  • You Had Me at Merlot

Z: 9 names

  • Zin a Pickle
  • Zin and Bear It
  • Zin for a Penny
  • Zin Good Company
  • Zin It to Win It
  • Zin Laws
  • Zin the Nick of Time
  • Zin-credible
  • Zin-side Joke