News and reviews about latest luxury goods and brands in tobacco, ciggars and spirits area
Open until late at the intersection of Mayfair and Soho at Hotel Café Royal, the new Ziggy’s cocktail bar features a curated gallery of intimate portraits of David Bowie by his long standing photographer and friend Mick Rock. The year is 1973. David Bowie retires his dramatic alter ego Ziggy Stardust with a final … Read more
The bottle is his canvas. Urban artist Vhils used acid etched into paint for the Hennessy Very Special Limited Edition. For the design of the new Hennessy Very Special Limited Edition, Vhils dove into the archives – using posters and graphics from 250 years of Hennessy history. Hennessy has a long tradition of powerful artistic … Read more
As land in France’s grand cru regions and the Napa Valley becomes eye-wateringly expensive, innovative winemakers are transforming previously unfashionable areas
All the appeal of Scotch whisky – the myth, the tradition and the romance – find its ultimate expression in this bottle to be offered at at Bonhams Whisky Sale in Edinburgh on 3 October. Estimated at £700,000-900,000, the extremely rare The Macallan Valerio Adami 1926 60 year old was bottled in 1986 by … Read more
It’s the fourth time Gourmet Traveller’s top prize has gone to the Sydney harbourside restaurant
Easter Elchies, Craigellachie, Moray
Macallan’s new £140m distillery and visitor centre, by Richard Rogers and co, is a suitably subtle blend of hi-tech and theatre designed to put the beautiful business of whisky production centre stage