Based in London, branding agency Stranger & Stranger have an enviable client list of international wine and spirit brands, including Grogger favourite Clos de los Siete. Their website and much of their work has a Victorian copperplate feel, and we especially love the look of Le Grand Noir with its gilded sheep and typographic foil.
Having Damian Hirst – high chief of the YBAs – donate the artwork for your wine label must be something of a coup. But, as an artist who often confronts the viewer with stark images of death, Rolf Harris he ain’t. He certainly wouldn’t be top of our list to promote to chucklesome message of Comic Relief.
“The Oggau Estate is a new wine growing estate that produces 9 wines with different characters. Each wine has its own individual character with its own story and complex, changing relationships. A wine family comprising of grandparents, parents and children with intrigue, secret affairs, arguments, colourful characters and the odd black sheep. A typical family clan.”
Designed by Jung von Matt, seen via Lovely Package.
Last year some Groggers were fortunate enough to have a jolly to the land of backward-footed people (’anti-podeans’ for you etymology fans). Whilst waiting for our connecting flight in Dubai, I was perusing a complimentary copy of Wallpaper* magazine where the Logan Weemala Pinot Gris was featured in a ‘black and white’ feature.
Whether you keep your special wine in your Chateau cellar, under the bed or in that built-in wine rack next to the oven in your MFI kitchen, chances are it is nowhere near as stylish as the storage options offered by Magnusson Fine Wine in Stockholm, Sweden.
And so it is with great trepidation and a tasteful amount of fanfare that Grogger noses its first wine and dribbles the promise of many more down its chin and onto its best shirt. For this special occasion we have a truly unique wine that is no longer available to buy and, quite possibly, mercifully so.