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On a blogger's budget, your correspondent's booze intake is limited to the more affordable scotches and gins. But for those who swill champagne on the regular, have you noticed how design-y the packaging's gotten?

Dom Perignon's Marc-Newson-designed champagne cooler is made out of (surprise) aluminum, and the shape provides clever clues as to what might be inside.

Krug teamed up with bespoke trunk-maker Pinel & Pinel to come up with the Escape Artist, above. The three variants of the design come with either stogie paraphernalia (cigar holder, cigar cutter and lighter), degenerate gambler paraphernalia (deck of cards, poker chips, "casino" dice), or tech geek paraphernalia (video/MP3 player, JBL speakers), not to mention two bottles of Krug.

The Karim-Rashid-designed Globalight for Veuve Clicquot serves as both a carrier and a cooler, and is one of those designs that will puzzle future anthropologists when the bottle's long gone and they dig the thing up in 3,000 years.

Veuve Clicquot also teamed up with luxury Italian boat design company Riva to produce the "Made to Measure" cruise collection, loaded up with bottles, magnums, flutes, tumblers, plates, mats, and cutlery.

The Cruiser Bag only comes with one measly bottle and two flutes, but it's still made out of mahogany, chrome and leather.

Last but not least, VC's Porsche-designed champagne cooler is designed to keep 12 magnums of your best nice and frosty, as well as to make you forget the world is filled with poverty and injustice.