Some one has rightly said that New Year’s celebrations cannot be complete without a glass of champagne. Realizing the fact, Dom Pérignon has unveiled a limited edition 1995 Vintage White Gold Jeroboam commemorative champagne with the onset of 2008. Featured above is this exclusive gold-plated bubbly that was offered to the rich and renowned during their exploit and adventures on the periphery of the Côte d’Azur.

It gained significant importance at the gala ceremony attended by superstars, models, and tycoons. Annotations of brioche and sugar, blended with fresh almond and apricot make for the deep, obscure aroma of the champagne. The recent drawing of the bottle has an etching of the Dom Pérignon crest, enfolded in a sheath casing of white gold. Counted 100 bottles are available globally with the jeroboams available at The Matsuzakaya Department Store in Nagoya’s Sakae-ku and is retailed at $11,005 a bottle. The sales are being embarked from Matsuzakaya and another 20 bottles are expected to be sold in Japan while remaining cost $40,000 plus in nightclubs in the U.S.

Via HauteLiving

Come Christmas and nightclub gets an excuse to flaunt their lavish offerings’ giving a reason to uber-rich to spend outrageously on such pricey deals. Keeping in mind the nature of the occasion, the world’s most expensive Christmas cocktail has been unveiled at a notorious, London A-list hang-out. The pricey cocktail, an offering by Movida nightclub doesn’t lets you compromise at any ordinary Champagne and thus bites you with its deserving cost of £35,000 ($71,000) a glass. Pinch yourself! It is a fact. The renowned nightclub is been seen as a hangout for icons, footballers and the filthy-rich and has earned various orders for the drink, identified as the Flawless.

The cocktail comprises of a huge measure of Louis XII cognac, half a bottle of Cristal Rose champagne, tinge of brown sugar, angostura bitters and a few chips of 24-carat edible gold leaf. The drink is depicted as temperate and stimulating but this doesn’t justify its overpriced tag. The cherry on the drink is essentially an 11-carat white diamond ring positioned at the bottom of the crystal glass. You are wrong if you think that you can leave unobserved with this Flawless glass as the eyes of two security guards would be glued upon you from the preparation of the drink to the last sip that you take. This can become a serious issue if you plan to use this as a medium of making love your beloved as guard’s severe eyes can mar your romantic ambience. Known for its profligacy, Movida claims to be the “world’s biggest supplier of Don Perignon” and swanks sailing smoothly amongst the ‘World’s Top 5 for its sales of Crystal champagne’.

Via Telegraph

Picture this: You are standing surrounded by all haute babes in the leftovers of one of the US’s biggest scandals with a glass filled with overpriced liquor. Yah, it is possible as the featured above is a cargo plane called El Avion, now a restaurant cum bar built around a 1954 Model, Fairchild C-123. This is a clear indication of the available future prospects for ant cargo plane that is shot down. Good enough! Fairchild C-123 is been associated with one of the biggest scandals in the mid 1980’s when Reagan administration’s strange network for arms was sold to Iran. It met its end as a cargo plane on 5 October, 1986 on its way to deliver supplies to the Nicaraguan Contras.

Now in its new avatar, El Avion serves lavish food and drinks. Now you can think of wrapping your bag with $$$$$ and things of spending days under the wings of this 1954 Model. One of the attracting features besides its menu and unique accessibility is its scenic ambience wherein seacoast blends with mild reddishness during the evening sunset. This is an inspiration for to-be-retired planes.

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True, Russia is considered as the land of vodka, but it’s a tawny alcohol from France adds a spark of a Cognac Rush in the territory of hyper-rich oligarchs and aficionados. This occurrence is not driven by well-to-do Russians but also the emerging wealthy middle layers of society. Celebration of occasions doesn’t seem to be complete if the glaring bottle of crystal-encrusted cognac nestled with a fancy chest is not flowed. Not to forget the age and price of the cognac, which shares a directly proportional relationship.

Leading cognac brand Hennessy latest offering of ultra-Cognac-dream is Beauté du Siècle, an ornate treasure chest that comes packed with luxurious items, a Baccarat decanter carrying a blend of Cognac dated 1907. Counter 100 treasure chest are being designed by French artist Jean-Michel Othoniel and would go on sale for €150,000, or $220,000. The delivery with happen by a Hennessy board member personally. Also you can eye Hennessy’s Ellipse, a €7,000 Baccarat decanter that is an amalgam of Cognacs admired by seven generations of Hennessy’s blend-masters.

The four-big Cognac houses that rule Russia are Hennessy, dominating the minds of the people followed by Rémy Martin, Martell and Courvoisier combating for their share. Russia has reached to the pedestal of world’s No. 7 market for Cognac after a long race. It consumed around 5.3 million bottles during the year ending July, which is 49% more than the corresponding period a year ago.

Via IHT

The Trappist Monks based at St. Sixtus monastery, respecting their responsibility stay away from treasures, sex and red meat. Also, they utter a word when it becomes impossible. But you can touch space with them over beer phone. Their engagement into producing most expensive brew for years now has earned them voracious customers by maintaining their saintly hangover. Since 1839, around 26 monks have been preparing Westvleteren beer at a distant location near the French border. The facts are enough to urge you taste this beer that offers strengths up to 10.2% alcohol amount and is being recognized as the priciest beer available globally.

Bars ranging from Brussels to Boston and at various online spots, it is being sold for more than $15 for an 11-ounce bottle, which is 10 times the deserving cost demanded by monks, if you are fortunate to get. The monks are making efforts not to reside over a bigger canvas, to stay within limited geography. You may not see Trappist tag on the bottles as these saints don’t believe in creating hype. A word is around that they haven’t augmented their making since 1946. Till date, only fromt gate is the means to pick this pricey brew. Unlike other spirit shops, this requires a pre-fixed appointment followed by a restriction of picking two, 24-bottle cases a month.

This was in order to put a stop on the high-priced online market that is keeping all eyes on it’s the moment of scarcity. If recognition can make a difference and add some weight to the facts I am disclosing then here is one. Two of the American web sites bagged the award of “the 12″ best in the world for the Westvleteren’s three products.

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After reading this on your next visit to London you cannot afford to miss to drop to the St Pancras International train station. Not for boarding but for a glass of champagne. It now flaunts Europe’s longest champagne bar that measures 96 meters (around 315 feet) and sprints next to the Eurostar platform, maintaining a distance from the trains via a glass division. The bar offers an accommodation for around 110 people and the prestigious menu declares almost 70 Champagnes on menu with 10 available by the glass. If you are in a mood to take a Champagne breakfast and have anything from £39.95-£2,700 then you can make your day with a bottle of bubbly. Well, I overheard somebody saying on their opening ceremony, the bar sold equal of 4,500 glasses of champagne.

Via Luxist

Someone has rightly said the identity of the successful person gets recognized when he is asked for autograph rather than signature. In Blogosphere, the dialysis occurs when a blog gets mature from a label of a baby blog to the pedestal of a majestic presence. Right on the heels of my expectations, I have managed to crack 500 posts (on EliteChoice) within less than a year (with first post on 9 January).

Ideally I should feature myself with a goblet of champagne but I take the opportunity to introduce my internal spirit to you. This two-legged beast is my mirror image who knows the right direction and cherish past with a present energy and looks forward to ink bigger deals in life (in terms of value as size doesn’t make a difference).

Besides my journalistic profession, I was committed to my bloggers’ desk throughout this year and never intended to beat big sharks like Luxist, LuxuryLaunches, UberGizmo, ShinyShiny, Bornrich, UberReview, Blavish and others but am glad that I earned the deserving recognition from them. Also, a three-month-young network with Elite Fashion Blog Bazaar Community is quite satisfying.

It was an exciting journey to chronicle the world of elite products and break the news on the board, respecting the prerequisite of a journalist and curiosity of my faithful readers. Gluing to my very first post that outlined the purpose of my blog, I am happy to set various laurels in that direction and am geared up to offer an unbeatable common-sense perspective on important topics/ products and events of the day.

I am glad to share with you that the onset of 2008 would mark our first anniversary with a lot more unique features on the cards. And yah from today I am all set to offer next 500 posts coming thick and fast.

This Time Three Cheers To Me And My Love:)

The good vibes conveying approaching Christmas are in the air, making me gather valuable spirits to do justice to this big day. Presently, I am slobbering over the Frapin Cuvee 1888 Rabelais, which is feing flaunted at Harrods. It is reckoned that counted 1888 are produced.

Packed with atypical and intricate Cognac that tracks back to 1870, the carafe-type bottle is stimulated to give reverence to Pierre Frapin, the originator of Frapin Cognac. Its pungent palette is amazingly composite: dried fruits, nuts, raisins, trim, candied oranges, and towering waves of torrified cacao, tonka beans and coffee.

The core of its nature is an uplifting concord of winery flowers, lime, spray, soft spices, white honey, vanilla, fleece, and tropical woods. The outer look is uniformly fatal. The custom-built design of an original carafe that has been produced by the Cristalleries Royales de Champagne is being commissioned by Frapin Cognac. It is accentuated by a 24 carat golden border. Its coiled shape evokes Cognac turning old gradually or the introductory rotating of cognac in a goblet.

Having talked about World’s most-expensive wine and vodka, I use to feel incomplete and guilty that there is nothing unbeatable for Rum-lovers. But today, the very news of World’s most-expensive Rum to be exhibited at Europe’s first rum festival, Rum Fest has calmed down my curiosity. Retailed at £26,000, this can be identified as the world’s oldest rum as well as the Jamaican distillers Wray and Nephew bottled it in 1940 with the blends tracking back to 1915. It is a living symbol of the tradition of the Wray and Nephew Rum. This is one of the four unopened bottles available globally as after their limited production, the distillery practiced different methods of production.

Via BBC

Only real beer connoisseurs invited for the casual drinkers wont be able to afford sipping this pint. The Vielle Bon Secours beer is officially tagged as the most expensive beer in the world with a price tag of £38.46!

So if you are all set to sip the elite drink, you have to head on to London in a bar called Bierdrome. Now, this is indeed no big a deal to savor the taste of real luxury. what say?