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The Boozy Gift Guide Part VI: For the Decadent Drinker.

The cocktail craze is nothing if not romantic. Here are gifts for the swooning swiller in your life.

Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Dec 17, 2009 at 01:00PM0 Comments

Arte Italica vessels, from $104-$180. Available at Liberty 123.

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Arte Italica vessels, from $104-$180. Available at Liberty 123.

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Love those gilded-edge goblets: Antique barware at Antiques at Pike Place.

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Watson-Kennedy always stocks an array of vintage champagne buckets, a great addition to any home bar.

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Here’s what you’ll want to put inside that vintage bucket: there are more interesting sparkling wines, but there is no prettier package. Order from your favorite wine store, it should cost around $60.

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Roost glasses, some styles available at SAM Shop.

I’m just going to come out and say it: I like pretty stuff. Girly, pink, frilly, fruity-smelling, cupcake-inspired, Parisian-macaroon-shop pretty.

I also like drinking, and all the ritualized objects that surround it. Antique coupes, beautiful old bottles for storing homemade rosolios and limocellos (limoncelli?), decanters, ornate swizzle sticks: these are good gifts for my kind. Do you have someone in your life who likes to sit around drinking sparkling wine and watching Marie Antoinette? Here are some gifts that will make him/her happy.

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