Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Truffle Breakfast, $67,000 Bordeaux Entice at Arnault Hotel

Dec. 29 (Bloomberg) -- There’s no whiff of economic crisis in the winter wonderland built by luxury-goods magnate Bernard Arnault in the French ski town Courchevel 1850.

For 47,000 euros ($67,466), the chairman of Paris-based LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA can guarantee the sun rises at the Cheval Blanc hotel with a 1947 vintage bottle from famed Chateau Cheval Blanc in Bordeaux. Dawn also may be savored with a 220 euro “Dome of Black Truffles.”

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