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.
