Over a year ago I started a wine of the month as a Christmas present for my boyfriend. I found so many of them to have interesting labels so I couldn't throw them out. After deciding the best way for me to remove them, I began!
I used my electric water pot to boil the water, then I poured it into my teapot so I could easily pour the boiling water into the bottles. I did two bottles at a time. I poured in the boiling water and let it sit for a minute, meanwhile I started another pot of boiling water.
Once the bottles had time to sit, I used an exacto knife to peal the label away. I think a straight razor blade would have worked better because the angle I was cutting at caused the more waxy labels to crease. Once the label was removed I poured the already boiling water into the teapot, and poured the water from the bottle into the boiler, to re-boil it. That way there is not much wasted water!
I put the labels in between some heavy books. Who said old text books would never be useful? I also cut off most of the neck labels and put the in my flower press.
In the end all but two labels came off!! Here are some of the labels! The Mad Dog is my favorite!
