Champagne

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Of Course Russia Broke The World’s Biggest Champagne Glass Record

8:20PM August 8, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

Those Ruskis sure are a classy lot, aren’t they? They’ve just gone and set a new Guinness Book of World Records record for the biggest ever champagne glass. Measuring 1.5m high, it was filled with bubbly from 75 bottles. Hic! [EnglishRussia]

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Who Knew Opening Champagne With A Glass Looked So Suave?

7:20PM May 16, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

I would happily go through several crates of champagne in the quest to find other tools to open a bottle of champers with. Even on a Monday morning. Especially on a Monday morning. [VVV via DailyWhat via @Litmanlive]

Entertainment

Open A Champagne Bottle With A Saber

4:40AM December 31, 2010 | Wired How-To Wiki

There are multiple ways to pop New Year’s champagne: the Super Bowl air-spray, the casual Diddy pour-on-the-floor, or, if you’re feeling awesomely Napoleonical, you can slice the damn thing open with a sword (or good kitchen knife). Here’s how. More »

Champagne Bottles Get A New Design In The Name Of The Environment

1:20PM September 2, 2010 | Casey Chan

The champagne industry is looking to update the iconic champagne bottle. They’re slimming the shoulders to make a lighter bottle in an effort to cut their carbon footprint. That slight difference will be like removing 4,000 cars from the road. More »

Gadgets

Bullet-Shaped Bollinger Champagne Cooler, For 007′s Giant Gun

2:10AM October 1, 2008 | Kit Eaton

A giant gun that fires bullets containing chilled bottles of Bollinger…sounds like a psychedelic James Bond-theme dream. But at least the bullet bit is nearly a reality. Bollinger has come up with this 007-themed champagne bottle cooler in time for Quantum of Solace that actually is bullet-shaped, though there’s no giant Walther PPK to fire it. It’s fabulously silly, and presumably fabulously priced since it’s a strictly limited edition run of just 207. Maybe Bond should worry about it though: you know, the saying goes “somewhere out there there’s a bullet with your name on it”… [Sybarites via Luxurylaunches]

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