Grogger

Two of the most important things for a successful blog are to be a) interesting, and b) regular. Suffice to say that those qualities have been more apparent in my bowel movements than in Grogger.

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Providing a steady stream of design inspiration (read: stuff to copy), knitted crap, bike-porn and, well, porn-porn, Ffffound! and Dropular are Grogger’s preferred way of wasting time at work waiting for wine o’clock (when the big hand points to twelve and the little hand points to the gaping gulf in our soul).

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Rather lovely and very simple gold-on-black lion motif for Leu Wines with an ascending order of lion age depending on the pedigree of the wine.

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After our ‘outing’ of the venerable Michael Broadbent as a Grogger, we have the pleasure of unveiling another vino-aesthete:

Answering Design Week’s Voxpop question “Which world record would you like to break?”, Ron Cregan of Navyblue Design manages to dispel his boozy fug long enough to envisage a record attempt that involves, well, drinking with his friends and family. Sir, we salute you. And should you need assistance in your endeavour, the Grogger team will be more than willing.

Decanter, April 2009

It is with great pleasure that we can ‘out’ our first celebrity as a Grogger, and we’re talking an A-lister here: the grandfather of fine wine journalism himself, Micheal Broadbent MW. Writing in his regular column in the April 2009 edition of Decanter magazine, self-confessed binger Mr. Broadbent opines on the branding of Château Haut Gay 2006:

“Perfectly decent wine, but hideous name and label in a colour I can only descibe as like the hide of a South-African elephant after wallowing in mud, with equally dreary lettering.”

Now while Michael’s conjecture that the sub-£8 Bordeaux ‘might well appeal to a certain segment of society’ is unclear – does he mean cheapskates or homonym-loving homosexuals?  –  it’s jolly to think that ‘cottage claret’ was an intentional double-entendre.