The German designer Philipp Plein has collaborated with the famous brand of vodka Absolut. He has designed a new outfit for the legendary bottle.

The artist has decorated the one-off creation with precious stones and Swarovski crystals to highlight the skull-shaped creation on the bottle.

This collaboration with the arts has garnered 100 bottles to be sold either in his shop or on the web for 100 euros.

Dom Perignon Wedding was inspired by the magnums of Dom Pérignon Vintage 1961 which were poured at the 1981 wedding of Lady Diana Spencer and Prince Charles.

Each bottle was inscribed with the Royal’s names and the date of the most viewed wedding in history.

Motivated by this celebrated day, Dom Pérignon will, for the first time in 3 centuries, allow their iconic shield to bear a similar inscription for weddings everywhere.

Sotheby’s will auction off a melchior of Château Cheval Blanc 2006 on Feb. 17 in London, as part of a “finest and rarest wines and vintage Port” auction.

The melchior sized bottle, which is 18 litres in volume is expected to fetch up to 4,800 GBP.

The melchior weighs in at 25kg, is 75cm high with a circumference of 70cm and contains enough wine to pour 144 glasses of wine.

Chopin, the small-batch ultra-premium potato vodka from Poland named in honor of the famed composer, has created the world’s largest bottle of vodka.

The 200-liter bottle was made to mark the 200th anniversary of the iconic Polish composer’s birth.

It was unveiled last week at the Santa Barbara (CA) International Film Festival.

It was signed by celebrities, including Sandra Bullock, Forest Whitaker, Emily Blunt, Kirk Douglas, James Cameron and more.

Australian carrier Qantas has the world’s best on-board wine selection, according to the Cellar in the Sky Awards presented February 9.

The airline took four awards, including Best First Class Red Wine, Best First Class Fortified / Sweet Wine, Best First Class Cellar, and Best Presented Wine List.

Its parent Oneworld Alliance also took the prize for Best Airline Alliance, beating Star Alliance in second place and Sky Team in third.

For the second year in a row, overall sales of bottles of champagne were down — by 9.1 percent in 2009, in comparison with 2008.

The greatest loss came from exports outside the European Union, while exports to EU countries also fell, according to figures revealed by the Interprofessional Committee of Champagne Wine.

In 2009 there were 293.3 million bottles of champagne sold; stable sales in France allowed for a less dramatic overall loss in comparison with exports.