Grogger

Here’s a quick run-down of all the bottles that the Grogger team have sampled during the past year, some of them at Grogger HQ, some of them abroad including Italy and New Zealand.

It’s been a great year for wine and design. Stay tuned for 2011 when we’ll all be so poor we’ll be distilling our own urine to produce enough alcohol to quench our scavenging vulpine souls.

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It’s not often that one would wish a disaster upon our good neighbours the French, but if that Chilean mine had been in Minervois AOC, that would have been a good pun.

However, Unreal’s commemorative bottle is a jolly pretty thing too, each one bottle detailing information about the individual miner it is dedicated to, giving stories about their lives and also how they helped the group during the 69 days they were trapped underground.

Christmas is here, and the goose is I am getting fat[ter]. But what do you buy a wine lover to unwrap on Christmas Day? A fancy corkscrew? A clever aeration device? An Oz Clarke iPhone App!?

NO, YOU DICK, YOU BUY THEM WINE. THEY LIKE WINE, SO BUY THEM WINE. ALWAYS WINE. WINE WINE WINE. The only thing that should be ‘great for wine lovers’ is FUCKING WINE.*

However, if that message hasn’t got through, here’s a great selection of designery wine-tat from L’atelier du Vin to waste your money on. Thanks to Nick for the link, who had better bear this message in mind before the Grogger Secret Santa happens.

*This applies to everyone except my mother, for whom Christmas just isn’t Christmas without a comedy fridge-magnet in my stocking. ‘I cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food’. Cracks me up, every time.

Honest, down-to-earth language (is there any other kind in Australia?) and simple typography is used to great effect on this bottle of ‘Bottle of Red’ designed by Swear Words. When culture isn’t really part of your national identity, you might as well be proud of the fact, eh?