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...
The Graped Crusader
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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September 2011
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Babushka, Babushka, Babushka-ya-ya!
These Frisky Midget wine labels were designed for Blackwood Valley producer Killinchy Wines by Studio Lost & Found, United States. According to their PR, ‘the large wrap around label is a throwback to Communist Russia, revealing a series of Babushka/Matryoshka dolls with the final doll exposed as the Frisky Midget.’
As cute as the Matryoshka dolls are, we’d suggest that...
Grogger is dead...
If the historical home of wine is somewhere around Greece and Turkey, and the spiritual home of wine can be shared between the terroir of France and the heart and soul of Italy, the it should be noted that the spiritual home of Grogger is Australia.
From years working is Oddbins - a company that can take a considerable amount of credit for introducing the UK to Oz’s vineous offerings...
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August 2011
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Cork in the Act
Ooh, what a lovely surprise! Our good friends at NB have kindly linked to Grogger as one of their guest posts on hip’n’happening design blog Isn’t That Nice.
For those of you who are regular Grogger readers (Mum, Dad, Kanye) you’ll know what to expect. For those of you who are visiting us for the first time, welcome! To get a good flavour of what we do, try sucking on a...
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Fosters Extra Cool
Great pictures of Foster + Partners designed winery in Gumiel de Izán, Spain. An amazing building that uses light, shade and gravity to great effect:
A road rises to the roof of the building, where the harvested grapes are delivered straight into the hopper: the winery is designed to take advantage of the sloping terrain, using gravity to aid movement of the grapes within the building,...
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Mouton Dressed as Lamb
Due to a prior engagement with our close friends Dr. Oetker and Ms. Crocker, we were very disappointed that we were unable to attend odd-faced moneybags Nat Rothchild’s £1-million birthday bash last month in Montenegro. However today we were very pleased to discover this label for Mouton-Rothschild’s second wine, Le Petit Mouton de Mouton Rothschild.
Signed ‘d’apres Jean Carlu’, the...
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Ideas Illustrated
We were delighted to receive the latest edition of Ideas Illustrated from those cool kids at YCN. And we were even more delighted to find an article by Sir John Hegarty (of Bartle Bogle Hegarty fame, but you should know that already) about the importance of sustainable, organic and bio-dynamic wine production:
When bio-dynamics is practised it produces wine with more vivacity and flavour. The...
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July 2011
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Quinta de Lourosa sparkling wine, designed by Clase bcn
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Veni, vidi, vino
As a truly international organisation, Grogger has offices in creative hubs across the globe: London, New York, Sydney, Milton Keynes. We are also fortunate enough to have an outpost in rural Umbria, amidst the olive groves in the hills surrounding Orvieto.
So, after a returning from a recent jaunt to the Sagra dell’Oca (‘Festival of the Goose’) in Corbara, we were pleased to be reminded of...
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Olymp-Hic!
To commemorate the one-year-countdown to the London 2012 Olympic Games, that festival of fitness, you might have thought we’d struggle to find something booze-related. But no!
First up, a limited edition bottle of Chateau Great Wall produced for the Beijing 2008 Olympics, inspired by the design of the ‘bird’s nest’ stadium.
And then a sparkling wine designed for the 2014 Winter...
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maiomaiomaiomaiomaio
It’s Monday, and we’re feeling decidedly grumpy. I know, I know; you’ve come to expect nothing but rainbows and bunnies from Grogger, but today the rainbow is broken and the bunnies have scabies.
So apologies to Maio5 (or, possibly, ma-10-to-the-power-5 or perhaps malofive) but your label fails to impress us. It’s a compendium of all that has dominated the...
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June 2011
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