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.

Worldwide sales of cognac fell for the second year in a row in 2009 with a 12.4 percent drop, even sharper than the 6.2-percent fall in 2008.

Nearly 130 million bottles were shipped last year, compared to 148.2 million in 2008, said the BNIC national trade office, based in the Cognac region of France.

Recently, Macallan unveiled an exquisite whisky cabinet handcrafted from English Burr Oak, by Viscount Linley.

It was produced solely for Harrods and contains six bottles of vintage Macallan malt whisky from 1937, 1940, 1948, 1955, 1966 and 1970.

It is handcrafted from English Burr Oak and also includes six bespoke Linley crystal tumblers as well as a cigar humidor.

Italian fashion house Fendi came up with this exquisite wine fridge wrapped in soft, beautiful textured leather.

Part of the Fendi Casa Real Leather Furniture Collection, these wine fridges come with distinctive crocodile skin patterns and sleek lacquered finish.

The wine cellar allows one to store up to 16 bottles in a temperature and humidity controlled environment allowing wines to be matured in the perfect conditions.

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.

Italian designer Ferruccio Laviani has designed a bottle for ‘Paradis Horus’, the latest range of Hennessy Cognac.

Hennessy ‘Paradis Horus’ is shaped like a flame and draws its inspiration from Horus, the Egyptian god of Sun.

The bottle has over-sized stopper which looks like liquid overflowing from the bottle and incorporates a new metallic gold finishing technique.