By CRYSTAL GOH

San Francisco's JAQK Wine Cellars have taken a gamble on a clever combination of wine and graphic design – in more ways than one.

Winemaker Craig MacLean teamed up with Hatch Design to put together an imaginative new range of wine, packaged to mirror the glamorous, high-stakes world at the gambling tables. 

The eight wines in the JAQK range have been crafted from Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Shiraz, Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc varietals hand-harvested from selected boutique vineyards in California’s Napa Valley, the Sonoma Coast, Paso Robles and Lake County. Each bottle’s design is a mark of a unique identity, inspired by the king, queen and jack in a deck of playing cards.

JAQK’s range of limited-production wines is now available online and at selected retailers. For those who wish to go all in, the Full House Gift Set is the ideal way to savor each uniquely crafted wine in the series, a set of eight which retails for US$340, complete with a set of JAQK Premium Edition playing cards.