The Château Lagrézette wine holder is a must have for all wine connoisseurs. Château Lagrézette, famous for its rich, red malbec wines from the Cahors region has designed this stunning wine and glass holder for alfresco dinners and picnics.
It is hand crafted in olive tree wood with a plexy glass plate to hold even the best crystal in place, the holder can be secured in to grass or soft ground with a pole that reaches table height, allowing diners easy access to bottles without the risk of red wine stains all over the table.
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If you’re passing through the UK you could take a flying visit to one of France’s most high profile regions - Champagne.
Enjoy a Michelin star lunch followed by a trip to the iconic Moet Chandon winery. This will include an exclusive tour and tastings to wet your palate.
Perfect for a romantic luxury trip.
Trip details include:
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Posted by Ruth Miller on Wed 27th February 2008 at 06:00 AM, Filed in Luxury Fine Wines
For wine investors and enthusiasts alike - secure and stable environmental storage is crucial.
Octavian Vaults, based 100m below England’s Wiltshire countryside offers a premium fine wine cellarage facility. Current stocks under management total in the region of £500 million (1 billion dollars). For added assurance Octavian can provide customers with the world’s first secure storage certificate that guarantees storage provenance.
“Each case of wine will receive a certificate with a unique identification, detailing that it has been stored and cared for in the proper conditions. The certificate is protected against fraud by overt security features similar to those used in currency, including a unique controlled hologram, a patented numismatic UV feature, controlled watermarked paper and thermochromic ink that disappears on contact with heat. In addition there are also a number of covert features to protect the certificate at a forensic level.”
For added reassurance Octavian are insured for total loss - i.e the sum insured covers declared value of every case, for every customer. Great peace of mind for anybody with a priceless case of red.
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Posted by Bob Bulmer on Wed 30th January 2008 at 02:39 AM, Filed in Luxury Fine Wines
Scandinavia’s biggest brewer have started producing a designer beer which has a chestnut brown color with little foam and hints of caramel, prune, vanilla plus oak tree from the French and Swedish wooden casks in which it is stored. It’s aptly called Carlsberg’s Vintage No1 and there are whiffs of a PR stunt here… hell, I’m writing about it!
Sound like a fine wine to you? It’s certainly changing the face of beer brewing. But at £200 would you be tempted?
It is apparently best drank as a desert or cheese beer and comes in at a staggering 10.5% volume… just one bottle is all you need… let alone can afford! There are only 600 bottles going on sale each of 37.5 centiliters (0.8 pint) and in 2009 we can expect even more from the Carlsberg vats.
Knowing fine wine is an art, but apparently so is opening it. A Belgian dude called Frank Sveid has just designed and created what is the most expensive corkscrew on the planet at £36,000 – That equates to 3,600 bottles of good quality plonk!
I guess for the wine connoisseur who owns every gadget under the sun then this may be worth taking a mortgage out for!
The item itself works just like a normal corkscrew (it opens a bottle) but the difference lies in the build and quality as you’d expect. It’s handcrafted t order and made out of titanium and gold and constructed of 52 pieces of aviation titanium, including a lead cap cutter and the actual screw, and comes in its own cigar-like presentation box.
The lever is made out of 18-carat gold or platinum on request.
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