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Fog City Red Sangria

March 18, 2013 – 4:46 pm | No Comment
Fog City Red Sangria

Pop the top. Pour the deep scarlet sangria over a chilled glass with ice. Throw in a slice of orange. Take a sip. And reminisce about the days of “free and different thinking.” So recommends …

Siete Pasos Wine

January 11, 2013 – 11:07 pm | No Comment
Siete Pasos

Vintage hats, over-sized sunglasses and bountiful beards. No, we’re not talking about your local hipster hangout but a new series of Spanish wine. Hailing from the great vineyard-laden Rioja, Siete Pasos is a just-launched wine …

Juiceology

August 22, 2012 – 2:45 pm | No Comment
Juiceology

Imagine a soda that has all of the flavor, complexity, and texture of your favorite glass of full-bodied red wine. Now imagine that soda is made of all-natural ingredients, with no refined sugars or artificial …

Rose Colored Glasses, The Wine Bottle

July 30, 2012 – 9:19 pm | One Comment
glasses on girl

Damn, designers are getting creative these days. Once upon a time, wine was sold in a humble bottle, which held the goodness within and did little more. No longer. Polish design firm Luksemburk has developed …

May Fare!

May 17, 2012 – 8:47 pm | No Comment
Doss Blockos

It’s been a ridiculously busy week on The Urban Grocer, which behind-the-scenes has been thrilling but admittedly less so for content on the site. Looking for inspiration, I went into our archives to see what …

Liquid Love

February 2, 2012 – 12:48 pm | One Comment
road kill beer

If this isn’t your first time stumbling across The Urban Grocer, then you’ll know we’ve got it bad for wine labels. Anything from Oz-based Mash makes us swoon, not to mention the creative team of …

Return of the Living Red

December 12, 2011 – 7:59 pm | One Comment
return of the living red, wide

Forget the chateaux. Forget the birds. Forget whatever nonsensical French-countryside illustrations you’ve seen on wine labels. And enter Mash. Always creative, never predictable, Mash is one of our favorite creative agencies. Hailing from Oz, their …

Lovely Labels: TUG’s Top Wine Label Picks

October 14, 2011 – 5:56 pm | No Comment
matsu wines

Admit it. Sometimes you impulsively buy a wine bottle for the label. And that’s not always a bad thing, especially if that label speaks as much to art and creativity as it does wine. We …

Barley Basher: Cervecería Sagrada

October 4, 2011 – 3:39 pm | No Comment

Beer and professional wrestling: Now there’s a winning combination. No, we’re not talking about Coors Lite and Hulk Hogan. This is a much more sophisticated and exotic kind of pairing. This is Cervecería Sagrada, and …

Green Glass: Full Circle Wine

July 19, 2011 – 12:09 pm | No Comment

So maybe you’re a sucker for design and you just can’t get over the aesthetic flaw of wine in plastic bottles, or perhaps you adhere to the school of thought that believes plastic tampers with …