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.
Via.
Hennesy have just done wonders for their PR with launching what is the most expensive cognac to buy on the planet.
It’s in honor of Hennessy’s 100th birthday. The limited edition blend, featuring samples from 1907 to 1960, costs £100,000. Entitled Beauté du Siècle, it is packaged in a Baccarat crystal bottle that comes in a handmade mirrored glass and aluminum chest. Only 100 chests exist and the special cognac blend is not sold separately.
Via.
No longer do you need to break the bank to obtain one of the world’s best champagnes. All you need is a bottle of Griffith Park Sparkling Rose.
The recent Effervescents du Monde competition recently named Griffith Park Sparkling Rose as a gold medal winner giving it a place in the top ten best champagnes / sparkling wines in the world.
The nice bit about this particular bit of bubbly is that each bottle retails for an incredibly reasonable £5 ($10). The rest of the top ten was dominated by renowned French Champagnes - chosen from a field of 408 entries from 24 countries.
According to the Daily Mail, a £35,000 cocktail called ‘Flawless’ has just been launched at a notorious London A-List hotspot called The Movida nightclub. The club has already taken a few orders for the drink… amazing!
One of the first to order was a property developer who said he bought it for his girlfriend as a Christmas pressie, he said:
“I just thought it would be a nice thing to do for her. She has so many other things.”
Asked if he doesn’t have anything better to do with £35,000, he said: “It’s about the same as a holiday, isn’t it?”
Hmmmmmm, ‘m in the wrong bloody game!!!!!
Via Daily Mail.
