August 20, 2026 (Napa, CA) — Bergin Screen Printing & Etching, a Napa Valley screen printing company, is highlighting its integrated glass bottle decoration capabilities for wineries, spirits producers, breweries, and other beverage brands seeking alternatives to conventional paper labels. Founded in 1989, the company combines screen printing, etching, design support, and packaging fulfillment from its 82,000-square-foot production facility in Napa.
The company’s approach brings artwork and decoration directly onto the bottle surface, giving beverage brands options for permanent decoration, detailed finishes, specialty colors, and presentation formats suited to limited releases as well as larger production programs. Its services also allow brand teams to coordinate decoration and finishing requirements through one production partner.
Direct Decoration Gives Beverage Brands More Packaging Options
As wineries and spirits producers place greater emphasis on distinctive packaging, direct decoration offers a way to make the glass itself part of the package design. Bergin Glass provides glass bottle printing using high-fire inks that are applied directly to glass and fused through a controlled firing process.
The company’s screen-printing operation can handle bottle sizes ranging from 50 ml to 3 L, with capabilities suited to specialty projects and high-volume production. This makes bottle printing relevant for wine and spirits brands that want consistent decoration across a broad range of bottle formats.
Options include standard colors, precious metals, multi-color designs, neck and shoulder decoration, and 360-degree applications. For design teams considering screen printing on bottles, the process provides an alternative to adhesive labels by integrating artwork directly with the bottle.
The result is packaging in which the decoration becomes part of the glass surface. This can be particularly useful for brands evaluating printed glass bottles for reserve wines, club releases, artist collaborations, commemorative bottlings, and products where the bottle plays an important role in presentation.
Glass Bottle Screen Printing for Wine and Spirits Packaging
Bergin has offered screen-printing capabilities since 1995 and continues to use production technology designed for direct-to-glass decoration. The technique, sometimes described as silk screen bottle printing, transfers each ink color through an individual screen before the finished bottle passes through a high-temperature Lehr.
For wineries comparing conventional labels with screen printing on glass, direct decoration can support designs intended to withstand handling, storage, moisture exposure, and distribution. It also gives designers the opportunity to work with more of the available bottle surface rather than staying within the dimensions of a traditional paper label.
The company’s portfolio of screen printed glass demonstrates how artwork can be adapted for different bottle shapes, color separations, line weights, metallic details, and wraparound applications. Bergin Glass also provides artwork guidance through its Design Center, helping customers prepare files for printing glass according to production requirements.
For brands researching methods for printing on glass, this design-to-production support helps account for practical considerations including printable area, artwork resolution, text size, color separation, and bottle format before full production begins.
Etching and Hand-Finished Bottle Decoration
In addition to direct printing, Bergin Screen Printing and Etching provides sandblasted etching and hand-painted decoration. Its wine bottle etching services can be used for collector bottles, large formats, special releases, gifting programs, and detailed artistic projects.
Bottle etching removes a layer of the glass surface through sandblasting before paint and other finishing details can be applied by hand. This creates a tactile, dimensional finish that can be adapted to artwork, lettering, patterns, and special presentation concepts.
Brands searching for an etching company can work with Bergin on filled or unfilled bottles, depending on project requirements. Dedicated account and production teams guide projects through the decoration process and can coordinate bottle logistics as part of the program.
For wineries looking for a glass etching company with experience in premium beverage packaging, the Napa operation combines production capacity with hand-finished craft. Customers seeking a local engraver for wine-related projects can also consider the company’s sandblasting and painting capabilities when traditional engraving is not the right fit for the design.
Bergin Glass can support wine bottle engraving concepts through its glass decoration services, giving beverage brands another option for presentation bottles, large-format pieces, special releases, and commemorative packaging.
Custom Imprinting Supported by Design and Fulfillment Services
Bottle decoration is only one part of bringing a finished package to market. Bergin’s in-house resources extend into artwork preparation, production planning, and fulfillment, allowing customers to coordinate the final stages of a decorated bottle program.
Unlike imprinting companies that may work across a broad range of promotional materials, Bergin Glass specializes in cylindrical glass vessels and beverage-related packaging. That focus allows its team to plan around bottle dimensions, ink and etching requirements, production handling, and finishing details specific to wine, spirits, beer, and other glass-container products.
Its fulfillment operation provides custom packouts, paper-label and capsule application, shrink wrapping, palletizing, warehouse identification, and shipping preparation. These services position the business alongside specialized bottle packaging companies that help producers coordinate decoration and final packaging without dividing each stage among multiple suppliers.
The company can also combine bottle screen printing with other finishing services when a package requires multiple decorative or functional elements. This integrated workflow gives beverage brands a direct route from artwork preparation through decorated-bottle production and packaging.
A Napa Valley Business Built Around Bottle Decoration
The Bergins have maintained the business’s roots in Napa Valley while developing a production operation designed around the needs of beverage brands. What began as a small artisanal etching and painting studio has developed into a facility capable of producing thousands of decorated bottles daily.
Today, Bergin Glass works with wine, spirits, beer, specialty food, olive oil, water, and other brands using cylindrical glass containers. Its work combines established decoration techniques with modern production equipment, helping brand and packaging teams translate artwork into finished glass decoration with close attention to consistency and detail.
For beverage businesses considering an alternative to conventional labels or looking to combine direct decoration with packaging services, Bergin Screen Printing and Etching provides design preparation, production, finishing, and fulfillment capabilities under one operation.
About Bergin Glass
Bergin Glass is a Napa Valley glass bottle decoration business founded in 1989. Based at 451 Technology Way in Napa, California, the company provides screen printing, glass etching and hand painting, design support, and bottle packaging and fulfillment for wine, spirits, beer, specialty food, and other brands using cylindrical glass containers. Its 82,000-square-foot facility houses production, design, etching and painting, and fulfillment operations.
For more information, visit https://berginglass.com/ or call 707-224-0111.
