Baccarat + Duval-Leroy collaborate for the holidays
The prestigious French crystal maker has designed a holiday gift set featuring the Duval-Leroy Meilleurs Ouvriers de France Sommeliers champagne, a new cuvée launched last April. A Baccarat crystal carafe etched with the Maison Duval-Leroy monogram is nestled in a red and silver packaging alongside a bottle of Duval-Leroy’s Cuvée des Meilleurs Ouvriers de France Sommeliers. The champagne, a blend of premier cru and grands crus from the vineyards of Duval-Leroy in Vertus, France, was produced in collaboration with the Meilleurs Ouvriers de France Sommeliers, an alliance of the country’s leading wine experts. The gift set, priced at €500 ($650), is available upon request directly from the Duval-Leroy winery. repost […]
Turning [coconut] water into wine
A Filipino winemaker is hoping to put coconut-based wines, which have long been consumed in parts of South Asia and Africa, on liquor store shelves around the world. Made from the sap of coconut palm flowers, Vino de Coco is slated to hit shelves this month in China, where it will sell for 100 Yuan a bottle ($16), reports trade publication The Drinks Business. And while coconut wine is considered a common “conventional” drink in the Philippines, Filipino-American entrepreneur George Vacal Paraliza is hoping to turn the beverage — also known locally as tuba – into the world’s first premium product by upgrading with “aroma, flavor and complexity.” Coconut wine […]