Want the Most Booze per Calorie? Skip Liquor and Go For Champagne

Want the Most Booze per Calorie? Skip Liquor and Go For Champagne

In surprising booze news, Wonkblog’s Christopher Ingraham gives an unexpected (and classy) spin to conventional drinking wisdom: if you’re looking to get the most alcoholic punch per calorie, don’t reach for "the hard stuff." You’re better off drinking champagne or sparkling wine.

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Veuve Clicquot’s New Packaging Transforms Into Its Own Bottle Chiller

Veuve Clicquot's New Packaging Transforms Into Its Own Bottle Chiller

Champagne is for celebrating. But what sort of shoddy celebration would it be if it were warm? Veuve’s thinking ahead this holiday season with a new "Fashionably Clicquot" package that quickly transforms into a handy—and handsome!—ice bucket.

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That gold iPhone 5S sure is popular — if you try to order through Apple’s website, it won’t ship un

That gold iPhone 5S sure is popular — if you try to order through Apple’s website, it won’t ship until October. What a champagne pain.

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That gold iPhone 5S sure is popular (or Apple didn’t make very many of them) — if you try to order

That gold iPhone 5S sure is popular (or Apple didn’t make very many of them) — if you try to order through Apple’s website, it won’t ship until October. What a champagne pain.

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Apple has apparently asked its suppliers to ramp up production of the gold-colored iPhone 5S by one-

Apple has apparently asked its suppliers to ramp up production of the gold-colored iPhone 5S by one-third after seeing strong demand for the new phone.

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18-Wheeler Crashes, Spills Hundreds of Bottles of Champagne on Highway

18-Wheeler Crashes, Spills Hundreds of Bottles of Champagne on Highway

Take a look around you—because you will never forget where you were the day you heard about the Champagne Massacre of ’13. Yesterday, Wednesday September 18 at around 2:30 pm, a truck filled to the brim with bubbly fell over, split open, and got I-395 in Connecticut absolutely wasted.

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What Happens When You Stuff iPhone 5 Guts in an iPhone 5S Body?

If you haven’t seen a million iPhone 5S housing pics of varying believability by now, you’re either doing something very wrong, or very right. But looking at an alleged 5S case by itself doesn’t tell us much about the improvements over the regular 5, so Jonathan at TLD endeavored to see how many of the guts from an iPhone 5 he could cram into a gold, er, champaaagne, 5S case. How’d he do?

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Is This the Gold iPhone 5S?

Is This the Gold iPhone 5S?

With all this talk of a golden iPhone you may have been expecting something terribly bling. But this leaked image, published by Japanese website Weekly Ascii, claims to show off the new "champagne" iPhone and it… it doesn’t look that bad.

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Gold iPhone 5S poses with current model in leaked group shot

Gold iPhone 5S poses with current model in leaked group shot

Yes, new rumors about iPhone colors seem to come along every day now. But these images from Weekly Ascii in Japan show an intriguing look at the champagne version of the alleged iPhone 5S model allegedly coming September 10, next to black and white iPhone 5 models… allegedly, of course. If real, they match up with previous images, while also showing a bit more refinement in the design and quality. The new color would be far from the blingy gold we saw before, though, perhaps ruining the dreams of the Chanel-bag-and-small-dog crowd. Grab your salt shaker and check after the break for another shot, or hit the source to see them all.

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Which Type of Alcohol Gets Destroyed Best By Guns?

It’s never a good idea to mix guns and alcohol unless you’re using guns to shoot at alcohol. And we’re not talking about just popping pellets at empty beer cans, we’re talking about our friends at RatedRR firing AK-47s and AR-15s at full bottles of wine and champagne to create a bubbly (sorry) explosion. Watch as beer bottles, beer cans, champagne, wine and even boxed wine get destroyed by rifles. Which shot is best? I think I’m going with the boxed wine. [Rated RR]

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