The Most Finely Tuned Way To Travel With Champagne

October 7, 2009 at 12:26 PM | by Omri | 0 Comments

Another in our increasingly long list of exorbitantly priced designer luggage, the new "In Case of..." collection from Mumm GH has the additional benefit of not being able to carry much except champagne bottles and flutes. Conveniently, each of the three trunks actually come with Brut Cordon Rouge and Vintage 1998 and the flutes with which to drink it.

Inconveniently, the cheapest of the three pieces costs over $5,000. That price gets you one of the leather trunks, the red Mini Mumm Cordon Rouge Gross, and comes with four mini bottles of the sparkly. Things get even steeper after that, although in fairness the bottles do get bigger. So while we will never ever speak poorly of booze travel - still.

This is certainly classier than our usual methods for transporting champagne, which move between "rolling the bottle in a towel and wedging it in the suitcase corner" and "carrying it in our bloodstream." Nonetheless we suspect that the whole arrangement might not be entirely worth it.

Yeah, we get the schtick. What you're paying for is the champagne; the luggage is just to give the whole thing a snazzy little finish. Fair enough. But what are you supposed to do with the luggage afterward? You're not really going to keep transporting champagne in it—don't argue, no you won't—and you can't throw it out because it was so expensive in the first place. And if it transforms into a regular old trunk after the champagne is removed, it's still a wildly overpriced regular old trunk.

All of which is a roundabout way of saying that we still don't understand designer luggage.

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