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Claudia Schiffer's Breast Inspires Karl Lagerfeld

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It's said that the champagne coupe is inspired by Queen Marie Antoinette's breast. Karl Lagerfeld took that idea and ran with it in the form of a new breast-shaped bowl that is based on the estimable bosom of German supermodel Claudia Schiffer's bosom.. Lagerfeld's version is a generous bowl with a rosy base which sits on a stand of three porcelain replicas of Dom Pérignon and a platter signed by Lagerfeld and Schiffer. It will be sold for with a bottle 1995 Dom Pérignon Oenothèque for $3,150. It seems a bit ungainly for drinking but I suppose the goal here was admiration and not utility.

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The Classicist: LVMH's Distinctive Vintages

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Filed under: Spirits, Wine, Books, The Classicist

French luxury goods conglomerate LVMH is best known for its marquee property Louis Vuitton, but the company has also amassed the world's most amazing collection of top-class wine and spirits brands under its Moët Hennessy group. The incomparable portfolio is celebrated in a suitably lavish new book called Distinctive Vintages ($200, right) just out from Flammarion.

Moët Hennessy owns too many luxury brands to list, but to name a few: Hennessy Cognac; Moët & Chandon, luxe Dom Pérignon, Krug and Veuve Clicquot champagnes; Belvedere and Chopin vodkas; Glenmorangie and deliciously smoky Ardbeg single malt Scotch whiskies; and the famed Chateau d'Yquem wine, synonymous with the finest money can buy.

The book focuses on the collection of fine French wines and spirits, personified in three regions that are "as noble as they are prestigious": Cognac, the ancestral birthplace of Hennessy; Champagne, home Dom Pérignon and its confreres; and Bordeaux, graced by the magical Château d'Yquem. It offers both a practical guide to the three regions as well as an explanation of the different vintages and results produced by the famed houses.

Gallery: Distinctive Vintages

Drawing rooms of the hôtel du Marc, Reims

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Stolen Kisses: Sylvie Fleury Collaborates with Dom P�rignon

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Filed under: Wine, Art

Swiss sculptor and mixed media artist Sylvie Fleury has turned her talents to a pair of limited edition crystal wine glasses for Dom Pérignon. Each glass is marked with a seductive hand-painted lipstick stain, hence the title "Stolen Kisses." Each pair is signed and numbered and comes with a bottle of Dom Pérignon's Rosé Vintage 1998.

Produced in a limited edition of 999, these are bound to disappear quickly, unlike Fleury's beguiling statement. The set will be available in November for $600.

[via Vogue UK]

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Harrod's Dom Perignon Oenoth�que Bar

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Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels, Wine

The trend of Champagne bars seems to be booming lately, Europe's longest Champagne bar opened last November and the Liberty Hotel in Boston just got their own Veuve Clicqot Champagne bar. Harrod's, the posh department store in London already has a Champagne and Oyster bar but they are now opening the Dom Perignon Oenotheque bar on February 11. The bar will will offer two vintages by the glass: the 1995 at 65 pounds (around $127) and the 1975 at 250 pounds (around $490) per glass. The Dom Perignon Oenothèque is aged in cellars before the wine is disgorged so that the yeast can mature further. Champagne that is disgorged 15 years after release will taste different from the same wine disgorged five years earlier. The bar is only open for a limited time. Model Claudia Schiffer, who stars in a video by the designer Karl Lagerfeld for Dom Perignon Oenotheque, is scheduled to visit on February 26 and the bar will close on March 3.

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The Best First Class Meals for When You Fly

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Filed under: Dining, Wings

There are many people in the world who fly frequently and as such are often subject to airline food, despite it's nasty reputation of being nothing but reheated cardboard. Some airlines, however, are seeking to change that in a major way for their first class passengers -- even to the extent for some of having a chef on board (Gulf Airlines) and serving exotic gourmet dishes.

Among others Singapore Airlines offers a choice of Dom Perignon or Krug champagne, several airlines serve caviar as appetizer, and Malaysia Airlines serves their meals on fine china. Would you (or do you) choose your airline based on the first class meal options?

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Lagerfeld's Dom Perignon Case

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Filed under: Wine, Holiday Guides

It is Christmas at Harrods and the shopping is divine. From fashion and food to gadgets and toys, Harrods Christmas World is all about indulgence. Topping the list of pricey must-haves is this made-to-order guitar case from Karl Lagerfield. Covered in perch skin and lined with lambskin, the case is filled with some of the rarest Dom Pérignon Rosé vintages: one bottle of Dom Pérignon Rosé Vintage 1966, two bottles of Dom Pérignon Rosé Vintage 1986 and three bottles of Dom Pérignon Rosé Vintage 1996. You'll need something special from which to sip, and that is included as well in the form of three Dom Pérignon flutes. Still need more to justify the £70,000 price tag? Buyers will also receive a private tasting with a Dom Pérignon oenologist at the buyer's home or at Hautvillers Abbey in France, the birthplace of wine. If you just want to have a look at this rare beauty, stop by Harrods' Room of Luxury after November 1, where the case will be on display.

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$11,000 Dom Perignon Champagne

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Dom Perignon champagne bottles are going for 1.26 million yen (about $11,005) a bottle in Nagoya's Sakae-ku at the Matsuzakaya Department Store. The store started selling them this past Wednesday and the reason these particular Dom Perignon's are so expensive is that they're part of a limited group of 100 bottles available worldwide that are vintage 1995, which is considered a good year. 20 of the bottles are slotted to be sold in Japan, with the first 5 being sold at Matsuzakaya. Of course the bottles are not only numbered, but are also "elaborately wrapped" to help attract customers, and so far 1 bottle has been sold.

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Dom P�rignon Champagne Bucket

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Filed under: Spirits

The limited edition bottles of Dom Pérignon by Marc Newson are not exactly made for drinking. The neo-green sculptures are actually champagne buckets that are styled after the bottles that they are designed to hold, complete with a silver label in the iconic Dom Pérignon style adorning each one. Reminiscent of nesting dolls, each piece holds a Dom Pérignon Magnum and stands 27-inches tall. Price: €1,000

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A Bottle Named Desire

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

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We've mentioned Karl Lagerfeld's collaboration with Dom Perignon's 1998 vintage before. He shot the ad campaign and now Fashion Week Daily reports that he has designed a special gold studded bottle of the bubbly which will be sold in a limited numbered edition. The champagne known as A Bottle Named Desire is in a jeweled case that bears Lagerfeld’s signature and sells for $2,500. If you are more interested in what is actually inside the bottle, you can pick up a bottle (sans Uncle Karl's bedazzling of course) for $108.99 at Costco.

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1966 Dom Perignon Signed By 1966 Soccer Team

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Filed under: Wine, Auctions

A bottle of 1966 Dom Perignon signed by all ten surviving members of the 1966 World-Cup-winning England soccer team may bring in $8,700 to $13,900 when it goes up for auction at Sotheby's in London on May 10. The proceeds will benefit Cancer Research U.K.'s Bobby Moore fund, a fund set up in honor of the captain of the team who died of bowel cancer in 1993. This year marks the 40th anniversary of when Moore led the England team to victory.

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Dom Perignon Celebratory Meal Served at The Fat Duck

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I never know what to make of experimental cuisine, part of me wants to embrace the inventiveness of the cook, the other part of me says brings me the classics instead. Decanter covers a meal made by Heston Blumenthal of The Fat Duck to celebrate the release of the Dom Perignon 1996 Rose. The Fat Duck has been named the world's best restaurant and serves unique cuisine that is famous for its wow factor. The five hour dinner included snail porridge, bacon and egg ice cream, oyster and passion fruit jelly, mustard ice cream, jelly of quail and langoustine, truffle toast and oak moss film, foie gras with cherry and chamomile, and salmon and licorice. The 1996 Rose was served as an apertif and several other Dom vintages accompanied the meal. It doesn't sound like my dream menu but as one of the writers who attended the dinner said "it was a performance, not a meal."

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Bankers Drink London Dry

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Ever since the story last year of a banker who covered a room of a London club in champagne, we've known that London, bankers, and champagne can be a dangerous combination. Now, according to Decanter, those nutty bankers have been drinking enough to cause shortages of the bubbly. Bankers partying up after their bonus checks have caused a shortage of Dom Pérignon jeroboams (bottles that are four times the size of a normal one). The methuselahs (eight bottles worth) are still holding up. Bonus season is also good for Veuve Clicquot, Corney & Barrow, which runs 12 wine bars, reports that magnums of Veuve are top sellers.

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Most Expensive Champagnes

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Not including hard to find exotics, Krug, Clos du Mesnil 1995 tops the Forbes most expensive champagne list at $750 a bottle. Only 12,624 of the bottles were produced. Coming in at second is Bollinger Blanc de Noirs Vielilles Vignes Francaises 1997 at $400 a pop. Despite coming from the Pinot Noir grape, it is a fine golden color. Dom Pérignon Rosé 1995 make is in the top 3 of course at $350. Aromas of strawberries and cream show Dom’s style of delicacy and finesse.