Custom Winery Shirts and Polos
Custom winery shirts for the people who pour, pick and sell. Olive Branch Apparel embroiders tasting room polos and prints retail tees for wineries, vineyards and wine clubs, so the staff uniform and the shelf merchandise can come out of one order.
Winery shirts for the tasting bar, vineyard shirts for the harvest crew, embroidered hats and winery merchandise for the gift shelf. Start on a polo below, add your logo, and see your price in the studio before you commit to anything.
Design Your Winery Polos Here
Put your crest or wordmark on a real polo, set a quantity, and watch the price for custom winery shirts update live. The studio opens on an easy-care blended polo, a common pick behind a tasting bar because it holds its shape and color through a lot of washing.
Why Custom Winery Shirts Start With a Polo
A tasting room is hospitality with a counter in the middle. Guests see your staff from the chest up for most of a visit, usually while a pour is being described. That is why most custom winery shirts for front of house are collared polos with a small embroidered mark on the left chest. It reads as polished without drifting into formal.
Color matters more here than in most workplaces, because red wine finds every shirt eventually. Black, charcoal, deep navy, forest green and burgundy hide a splash until the end of a shift. White and pale stone look beautiful on day one and can carry a faint pink reminder after a busy weekend. If your brand palette is light, consider putting the light color in the thread instead of the fabric.
Fabric is the next decision. A blended or polyester polo resists wrinkles, dries fast and keeps its color through frequent washing, which suits staff who work several shifts in a row. Heavy cotton pique feels more traditional and breathes well on a patio, though it fades sooner and holds a stain longer. Either takes embroidery well, so choose based on how your team works and how often the shirts get laundered.
Plan the size run around turnover, not just the current roster. Tasting rooms add weekend and seasonal pourers around harvest and the holidays, and a new hire in a mismatched shirt stands out behind the bar. Ordering a few extras in your most common sizes costs less per piece than a tiny order later. There is no minimum either way, so a single replacement polo is still fine.
Winery Apparel We Embroider and Print
Embroidered Tasting Room Polos
Collared polos with your crest or wordmark stitched on the left chest, in dark colors that forgive a spilled pour and still look sharp at closing.
Screen Printed Retail Tees
Soft t-shirts and long sleeve tees for the gift shelf, printed with label art or estate artwork that visitors want to take home.
Hats and Beanies
Embroidered caps for the vineyard crew and the retail wall, plus beanies for cellar work and cold weather release weekends.
From Label Art to Boxed Order in Six Steps
You approve a proof before anything is stitched or printed, so the order that arrives matches what you saw.
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Pick Your Garment
Three we actually recommend, with the reasons why. Full catalog is one click away.
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Drop In Your Art
Upload a logo or start from a sketch. We fix files that will not print.
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See Your Price
Per-piece pricing moves as you change quantity and print locations.
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Approve A Proof
Nothing runs until you have seen exactly what we are about to make.
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We Print It
Screen print, embroidery or DTF, whichever your art and quantity call for.
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It Ships
About 14 days from the day you approve the proof, printed and boxed.
Price Staff Polos and Retail Tees Together
Build both in the studio and see the price for each as you change quantities.
One Polo Is Fine
There is no minimum order. Add a single shirt for a new pourer or outfit the whole tasting room, and the per-piece price drops as the quantity goes up.
Your Crest, Proofed First
You see a proof of every design and approve it before anything is stitched or printed, so fine script and small details get checked while they can still be changed.
Live Pricing in the Studio
Pick a garment, add your art and set a quantity. The studio shows the price as you go, so you can budget staff shirts and retail merch without waiting on a callback.
Label Art Cleaned Up
Winery logos are often built for paper. We clean up or redraw rough or overly fine artwork so it holds up in thread and ink on fabric.
Thread or Ink for Your Winery Logo
Winery branding leans on fine script, thin serifs and detailed crests drawn for a paper label. Fabric is far less forgiving than paper, and the two main decoration methods handle that detail in very different ways. Knowing which one suits which garment saves a round of revisions.
Embroidery on Polos and Hats
Embroidery is the natural match for polos, hats and beanies. Thread has height and a slight sheen, so even a one-color mark looks finished. It also tends to outlast the garment itself, which matters for staff shirts that are washed every week of the season.
The limit is fineness. A hairline flourish or a tiny established date is narrower than a needle can reliably stitch, so thin strokes get thickened and very small lettering gets enlarged or dropped. Many wineries stitch a simplified mark, such as the crest alone or the name without the tagline.
Screen Print and DTF on Tees
Screen printing lays down flat, crisp color and is the economical choice once a retail run has some size. It handles bold label art well. Each ink color adds a screen, so designs with one to three colors are the most efficient to produce.
Direct-to-film suits full-color artwork, such as a painted label or a photograph of the estate, especially on short runs. It carries gradients and many colors in one pass. Either way, small type on a dark shirt can fill in, so we flag anything too fine on the proof.
Send whatever you have, even if the only file is the label itself. We clean up or redraw rough logos so they print and stitch well, and you see a proof and approve it before anything at all is made.
Winery Merchandise Visitors Take Home
Tasting room retail is souvenir buying. Most people at your bar are on a day trip or a weekend away, and a shirt is a way to keep the afternoon. Winery merchandise sells best when it names the place as much as the brand, so think about the valley, the hillside, the town or the vineyard block alongside your logo.
Restraint usually outsells volume. Wine drinkers often prefer a small chest mark, a tonal print or a single line drawing of the vines over a large loud graphic. A design someone would wear to dinner gets worn far more often than one that looks like a uniform.
Give the wine club something visitors cannot buy. A member-only color, or a design issued once with each vintage, turns a shirt into a small mark of belonging. It makes a good pickup party gift, and because there is no minimum order you can size the run to the member list instead of guessing.
Stock sizes honestly. Tasting rooms see a wide mix of guests, so carry the full range instead of a stack of mediums. Start with a modest run of one strong design, watch which sizes and colors leave the shelf, and reorder what sells. The price per piece drops as quantity goes up, and you can see it in the studio.
One note on the range. We do not make aprons, quarter zips, vests or button-up shirts, which some tasting rooms pair with their polos. We do make t-shirts, long sleeve tees, tank tops, polos, hoodies, hats and beanies, and those cover most staff and retail needs.
Harvest or Release Weekend Coming Up
Tell us the date and what you need, and we will tell you plainly whether it fits.
Custom Winery Shirts for Harvest and Release Season
The vineyard calendar creates natural moments for apparel, and harvest is the biggest. Crews work long days in the rows and on the crush pad, and a dated harvest shirt has become a tradition at many estates. It is a thank you, a keepsake, and for seasonal workers often the only piece of the winery they take with them.
Vineyard shirts need to be practical first. Long sleeve tees protect arms from sun and canes, and darker colors hide grape juice, which stains as stubbornly as the finished wine. Keep the print simple and durable. A one-color screen print on the chest or back holds up to hard work and hot washing better than anything delicate.
Order harvest shirts well before picking starts. Standard turnaround is about 14 days from proof approval, and nobody at a winery has spare attention once fruit is coming in. Settling the design in midsummer means the box is on site before the first pick. If a date is already tight, ask, because sometimes an order can be done faster.
Release weekends, club pickup days and winemaker dinners are the other peaks. Staff need clean matching polos for each one, and visitors arrive ready to buy. Restocking retail tees and hats a few weeks ahead of your busiest weekends keeps the shelf full when traffic is highest.
Winery Shirt Questions, Answered
Is there a minimum order for custom winery shirts?
No. There is no minimum on custom winery shirts, so one polo for a new hire is fine. The per-piece price drops as quantity goes up, which means it usually makes sense to combine staff polos and a retail restock into one order. You can see the price for any quantity in the design studio.
Should tasting room staff shirts be embroidered or printed?
For polos, embroidery is the usual answer. It looks finished, survives constant washing and suits a small left chest mark. Printing makes more sense on t-shirts, where larger artwork is the point. Plenty of wineries do both, with embroidered polos for the tasting room and printed tees for retail and the crew.
What color polo hides wine stains best?
Dark colors do the most work. Black, charcoal, navy, deep green and burgundy hide a red wine splash far better than white, tan or pale blue. If you want custom winery shirts in a light brand color, consider a dark polo with light thread instead, which keeps the palette and spares your staff a change in the middle of a shift.
Our logo has very fine script. Will it embroider?
Usually, with adjustments. Hairline strokes and tiny lettering are thinner than thread can hold, so we thicken lines, enlarge small type or suggest stitching a simplified version of the mark. We clean up or redraw artwork as part of the order, and you approve a proof before anything is stitched.
How long do winery shirts take?
Standard turnaround is about 14 days from the day you approve the proof. For harvest, a release weekend or a club pickup party, start earlier than you think you need to. If your date is already close, call or send a note and ask, because sometimes an order can be done faster.
Can we order staff polos and retail tees together?
Yes, and it is a sensible way to buy winery apparel. Build each garment in the studio with its own artwork and quantity. Polos are typically embroidered and tees printed, so each has its own price, but placing them together means one round of proofs and one less thing to manage before a busy weekend.
Do you make aprons or button-up shirts for wineries?
No. We do not make aprons, button-up shirts, vests or jackets. We make t-shirts, long sleeve tees, tank tops, polos, hoodies, hats and beanies. Many tasting rooms pair embroidered polos and hats with aprons sourced elsewhere, and choosing the same garment and thread colors keeps the pieces looking like one set.
Do you ship to wineries outside Colorado?
Yes. Our shop is in Fort Collins, Colorado, and we ship custom winery shirts across the United States. Everything from artwork to proof approval happens online or by phone, and a person answers on weekdays from 9am to 5pm Mountain if you would like to talk an order through.
Where We Are
Olive Branch Apparel
706 East Stuart Street
Fort Collins, CO 80525
Outfit the Tasting Room and Stock the Shelf
Start with one polo or a full season of winery apparel. Add your logo in the studio, see your price, approve a proof, and we will ship it from Fort Collins to your door.