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Christmas Gift Idea #3: Absolut Tune Sparkling Vodka

Posted: 12 Dec 2012 07:02 AM PST



Renowned vodka Absolut has paired up with Pernod Ricard to produce a vodka spiked sparkling Sauvignon Blanc. Called Absolut Tune, the blend consist of 60% vodka and 40% Sauvignon Blanc, the final alcohol level is 14%.

According to Absolut, 'the first taste of Absolut Tune reveals vibrant, fresh tropical fruits with a balanced sweetness through the front and mid palate which is brought to life through the bubbles...and with a persistent medium strength Absolut vodka flavor and balanced sweetness leading on to a dry finish.'

While I'm not sure will this be the best Christmas wine to go well with every course of your Christmas meal, but pretty ascertain that Absolut Tune will dance the Christmas night away with warming soul. 



See also:
Christmas Gift Idea #1: Amelia Rope Chocolate Autumn/Winter Collection 2012.
Christmas Gift Idea #2: Architectmade BIRD Family. + Absolut Tune

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Contextual Street Art by Sandrine Estrade Boulet

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 12:24 AM PST



Contrasting to Bansky's satirical, dark humour street art, artist Sandrine Estrade Boulet has a different take on her street art. Unlike Bansky, everything in Sandrine's eyes are beautiful, humoruos and cheering. Sandrine Estrade Boulet imagines an alternate world in her works, she adds a dynamic and creative spin on daily life scenes and objects like a big mac box on the sidewalk, trash bags, motorcycles delivering pizzas, a broken umbrella, cracks on a wall...

Sandrine Estrade Boulet also published a book on her arts- Hello City!: Urbane Poesie. You can buy the book from the Amozon store.





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Casa Dragones limited-edition tequila by Gabriel Orozco

Posted: 07 Dec 2012 07:24 PM PST



The Mexican tequila brand, Casa Dragones and renowned artist Gabriel Orozco have collaborated to produce a limited-edition bottle adorned with one of the artist's most iconic works of art. The collaboration comes in honour of Orozco's 2011 retrospective tour held in four leading museums throughout 2011, from MoMA in New York City, Kunstmuseum in Basel, Switzerland, Tate Modern in London, to Centre Pompidou in Paris. The partnership centres around Orozco's 'Black Kites' piece, a human skull that is covered in an intricate graphic checkerboard.

Each one of the 400 crystal bottles are engraved with Gabriel Orozco's Black Kites motif, and includes Orozco's signature. Black Kites, 1997 is a human skull covered in an intricate graphic checkerboard, representing the two sides of life that are constantly at odds; the grid represents rationality and the skull represents uncertainty.

Each bottle signed numbered and dated by hand.


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