Okay, wine friends: I’m totally geeking out over this 560-piece Vegetable and Fruit Stickers set I bought off of Temu. I know I’m going to have a blast with these while I practice identifying the flavor and aroma characteristics of different wines.
I’m not usually an advocate of ordering cheap crap from China, but where else can you get hundreds of fruit and vegetable stickers? I looked at the local craft store, but they only had the puffy scrapbook-style stickers, dang. So I ordered these for $5.59 (including shipping) and they showed up less than a week later. (This is not an affiliate marketing post, by the way–I paid my own real American moolah for these and I just happen to think they’re freaking neat!)
It turns out that 560 stickers is a lot. It’s a haul that would make 8-year-old me collapse into a pile of envy. There are 20 sheet of stickers in here (5 each of 4 designs)–more than enough to share with other wine nerds at the bar.
How’s the quality? They’re glossy, die-cut, full-color stickers. They’re easy to peel and seem reasonably durable. I wouldn’t personally put them on laptops and vehicles and whatnot, but they’re fine for journaling and paper crafts.
Among the four sticker sheet designs, there are several dozen fruit, vegetable, and other food types represented. Happily, a lot of them align with common tasting notes for the world’s most popular wines.
You have your red fruits (strawberry, red currant, red plum) and your tropical fruits (pineapple, mango, banana). There’s plenty of berries and citrus (you’ll need a lot of those). There’s asparagus and cucumber and aloe to describe those vegetal notes. There’s something that might be a jackfruit, but I’m not sure.
This set is nicely balanced between common Western supermarket fruit and exotic fruits–starfruit, soursop and other rare aromas that may be wafting from out of your next Sauvignon Blanc. For any corked wines, there’s even a brown paper grocery sack!
I was delighted with the variety of this set and they were a hit at last week’s wine tasting, too. I ended up sticking them all over my tasting notes (and people).
Suggested Uses
There’s lots of imaginative ways to use these fruit and vegetable stickers! You can add them to a personal wine journal or bring them to wine classes to gussy up the handouts.
Another idea is to stick them on bottles of wine to help you keep track of their characteristics. Can’t remember which red wine you bought at the tasting has cherry and spice flavors, and which has blackberry and green pepper flavors? Problem solved!
Mix and match the fruits and vegetables with other sticker sets. If you want to make your tasting notes even more comprehensible at a glance, combine them with star stickers or emoji stickers. You’ll easily recall the dominant notes of everything you’ve tasted–along with which wine is 💯 and which wine tastes like 💩.
Wine learning should be fun, so don’t be afraid to use stickers to transform a booorrrring composition book or spiral-bound notepad into a work of art. Is it more efficient than writing “blackcurrant” for the umpteenth time? Not really. I may look for a pastry-themed sticker set next so I can adorn my future tasting notes with chocolate, cupcakes, and honey.
Review disclosure: I was not compensated or provided any free products for this review. Opinions expressed on The Wine Fairy blog are entirely my own.
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