The use of photography—in both mixed-media designs and on their own, color or black-and-white—is increasingly popular on wine labels. So too is unorthodox or even unsettling imagery.

A mulled white wine made with coriander ... notes actually live in the pod,” Ms. Javeri Kadri said. Lastly, an unorthodox — and optional — pour of fruity, tropical pineapple juice, feels ...