Champagne brand Veuve Clicquot, has teamed up with designers L’Atelier LZC to create the Sakura Collection. (Sakurea is Japanese for Cherry Blossom).

The Sakura Rosé Box is inspired by the ephemeral beauty of cherry blossom and the Japanese tradition for spring “Sakura” parties—which entail celebrating the short but majestic flowering of cherry trees by picnicking beneath them.

The portable Sakura Rosé Box contains a half-bottle of Cliquot Rosé and two beautiful plastic picnicking flutes.

As popping corks announce the New Year, champagne lovers can expect some radical new trends in the art of savouring a tipple that for centuries has been associated with celebration.

The true connoisseur should ditch the traditional long-stemmed flutes and the saucer-shaped coupes and instead start drinking the sparkling white wine from elongated, tulip-shaped glasses, say the experts.

And those seeking to be truly avant-garde should start serving the finest bubbly from carafes.

Established in the year 1729, Champagne Ruinart, is acclaimed throughout the world as one of the oldest champagne houses. At the same time, it also shares a place among the most esteemed champagne houses of the world.

In celebration of Valentine’s Day (a century ago, I know !), Ruinart, offer an indulgent and frolicsome special edition duo gift box set called “My Sweeter Half” designed to encourage romantic rendezvous.

Presented in a stylish parcel, the duo gift box features two half bottles of Champagne Ruinart’s premium cuvès: Ruinart Blanc de Blancs, made in the pure and noble Ruinart tradition exclusively from the Chardonnay grape; and Ruinart Rosè with its fresh, distinctive, rose petal pink color.