April 2011
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Apr 27th
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WatchWatch
A couple of wine-videos that have come our way recently. First up, a meditative, plinky-plonky introduction to Alturia wines with some nifty logo animation. There’s something delightfully 60s modernist about the label, as though it belongs on a teak Knoll credenza. Check out some other images here.
Apr 27th
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Apr 26th
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A Lean Year
We have just discovered this witty self-promotional wonky bottle of wine in the Creative Review Annual 2011. Designed by Alt Group, New Zealand, whose website doesn’t have much to show, but there’s also some great work for ‘The Vigneron’ on their Flickr page.
Apr 26th
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Apr 25th
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Apr 21st
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Apr 21st
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Apr 21st
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Apr 20th
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Apr 19th
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Pretty Sweet
Simple but pleasing typographic identity designed by Base Design for Caligo, a family of three sweet wines from the Alt Penedes region of Spain.  Thanks to Gorgeous George
Apr 19th
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Apr 15th
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Valpoli-seller
As well as supplying us with the basis for the best pun Grogger has so far come up with, the Pentagram-designed Londis wines have been supplying us with a cheap source of vinous surprises and delights. Thanks to the opening of a new branch Londis in close to proximity to Grogger HQ, we have been sampling the range of regional French ‘big letter’ wines and their selection of simple Italian...
Apr 14th
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Celebrity Grogger #1: Ewan Lacey
Well it seems that all this social-media-Twatter-bollocks isn’t as rubbish as we’d initially thought. Via the wonders of the hashtagging masses we were fortunate enough to get in touch with Ewan Lacey, wine writer and wine expert on Channel 4’s ‘The Cookery School’. He has very kindly agreed to launch our ‘Celebrity Grogger’ series, and he was so enthusiastic that he’d managed to...
Apr 12th
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Apr 12th
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Delightful animated promo for the Sonoma International Film Festival featuring a slightly sleazy, singing and dancing bottle of wine. Part live-action, part CGI, it’s seamlessly done and utterly charming. overdosedethinner: ¡Trés bien!
Apr 12th
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Apr 11th
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Apr 8th
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Apr 7th
Apr 6th
You Slaaaaaaaaag!
It’s not just great graphic design that we applaud at Grogger, but also a great idea. And so it is with the post-industrial town of Haillicourt who have planted vines of the steep, south-facing slopes of their slag heap. The aim of the experiment, they say, is to produce a drink that is not only palatable but of high quality, and in so doing to revive the fortunes of this economically...
Apr 5th
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One hundred not out
To celebrate our 100th post (and the birthday of one of the team, hence the cake) we sampled a few bottles of wine chosen because of their label. All the wines were bought from Laithwaite’s flagship store at Vinopolis in Borough. Now, forgive us our prejudices, but we also thought Laithwaite’s was a mail-order option for dullard’s too lazy to find their own wine. But, after several...
Apr 4th
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Apr 3rd
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RIP Oddbins
It is a very sad day at Grogger Towers. Although this is our one-hundredth post, we are distressed to announce the passing of Oddbins. Many of the Grogger team learnt their trade (read: sat our around drinking wine and listening to St Germain) at Oddbins. Founded in 1963, the company changed the landscape of wine-buying with knowledgable staff, infectious entusiasm for unusual wines and bold,...
Apr 1st
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