May 2012
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April 2012
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Grogger Grand Tour: Mash
Having spent five ‘summer’ months in Sydney, sheltering from torrential rain and tropical thunder, it was novel to see an Australian city in the sunshine. Adelaide was bustling with the annual festival – much like the Edinburgh Fringe, but with better-looking locals.
Since Grogger’s inception, Mash studio has been on our radar, providing us with a constant stream of original and...
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Anish Ka-pour me a glass
Can’t believe we missed this from December last year, but Anish Kapoor is the latest artist to grace the iconic artist lasbles for Chateau Mouton-Rothschild. Dark, brooding and beautiful, it seems to be an apt representation of the wine – not that we’re ever likely to be able to afford to try it!
Read more about the label and the artist here, via Justerini & Brooks.
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The D&AD Wine List
It’s that time of the year when designers across the world wait with bated breath for the results of the D&AD awards. Was I longlisted? Will I be In Book? Did I really just spunk another £3,000 on foamboard and bitter disappointment?
Just imagine, for every competition entry you thought of submitting, or every ticket to an awards ‘do’ you though of buying, you instead put that money towards a...
March 2012
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Grogger Grand Tour: The Journey
Sydney to Adelaide is two and a half hours by jet plane, twenty-four hours by slow, juddery diesel train. The advantage of the latter is the ability to bring your own picnic and, if carefully secreted, wine too. It was an obvious choice. Our original route was scheduled to journey via Broken Hill, through the semi-desert north-east of Adelaide. However, due to significant flooding across NSW our...
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Grogger Grand Tour
We’ve said it before that we believe that Australia is the spiritual home of the kind of wine that we like - wines to drink and enjoy, with personality and without pretension. Combined with a bright and creative design scene, it was an easy choice for Grogger to relocate to sunnier climes Down Under. And within this expansive landmass, where grapes are grown and wine is made from Perth to Sydney...
February 2012
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Happy Birthday to Us!
It was perhaps the kind of fortuitous luck that can only happen on a leap year’s February 29th, but we were doing a WHOIS lookup for Grogger.co.uk and it was registered by us on February 28th 2007. So that makes yesterday our 5th birthday, Hooray!
Grogger was born of a desire to justify buying more wine just because it has cool label [Tick!] and review the wine and design in a witty,...
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The Grapeful Dead
Maybe a lifestyle of sex and drugs can only be sustained so long until the desire to curl up with a Downton Abbey and a glass of merlot takes over.
Since coming across of bottle of AC/DC shiraz in our local Woolworths, it seems as though everyone’s at it. So here’s a roundup of some of the more famous music-inspired wine.
First up, AC/DC’s range of Australian wines,...
January 2012
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December 2011
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November 2011
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Distinguishing Marques
Phew, it’s over two months since the G’rogger team relocated Down Under and in that time we have drunk an absolute shitload of $8 clearskin chardonnay (we’ll do a proper clearskin review in the near future).
However, to celebrate our anniversary we booked into Marque restaurant for the testing menu and matched wines – a sumptuous ‘fahn dahning’ experience of...
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We have lamented the demise and missed opportunities of Oddbins many times. The simple red and white theme and quirky calligraphy of these adverts for the Sunday Times Wine Club would have been an ideal visual evolution for the ‘Bins - the right blend of style and character.
Seen via Visual Shizzle, we think they are student or concept work, get in touch if you know. Thanks to...
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Big and bold ‘American-style’ typography (ie, lots of Gotham and squeezed into tight little areas, like Batman’s bollocks) for South Carolina company La Wine Agency. If you like your wines unpretentious and your fonts from H&FJ, then this might be your bag.
Spotters badge to @_georgeadams
October 2011
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