Category: Cigars & Spirits
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Collector’s item: Mount Gay XO Cask Strength – a tribute to the original birthplace of rum
The world is celebrating Barbados for the month of November. The home of the world’s oldest rum rings in its 50th Anniversary of Independence this year. To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Barbadian Independence, Mount Gay Distilleries, the makers of the world’s oldest rum which has been distilled, blended and bottled in Barbados since 1703,…
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Scottish heritage helped build the whisky business. Now it’s payback time
Diageo should donate Sir Edwin Landseer’s The Monarch of the Glen painting to a museum in Scotland
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Yann Fillioux coup de coeur: Hennessy Master Blender’s Selection No. 1
What is a Master Blender’s Selection No. 1? The latest “Master Blender’s Selection N°1” by Hennessy Master Blender Yann Fillioux is a very personal signature that was only ever meant to be produced in a single, limited batch. In French, a project like Master Blender’s Selection N°1 is called a “coup de coeur” — a…
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Haute Cuisine at BVLGARI: La Cucina di Luca Fantin
Assouline’s first ever book on cuisine, BVLGARI: La Cucina di Luca Fantin, is a beautiful volume featuring 32 of Executive Chef’s standout recipes, along with the inspiration behind each dish—with each recipe beautifully rendered in exquisite original photography. La Cucina di Luca Fantin is a sophisticated coffee-table book about the cuisine of the eponymous chef…
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Michelin Guide Chicago 2017. 26 top-end restaurants have been awarded Michelin stars
Chicago has a total of 298 top-end restaurants, including 26 establishments which have been awarded Michelin stars in the new Michelin Guide Chicago 2017. In this new 2017 edition, Grant Achatz’s restaurant Alinea offers diners a totally new dining concept, and has maintained it’s 3 star ranking. Likewise, Curtis Duffy’s Grace continues with 3 Michelin…
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These aerators will make you love wine even more
How to make each glass a peak experience. Allowing wine time to “breathe” is now a thing of the past. There are a lot of reasons to oxygenate wine, and there are ways to do so without the long wait of decanting. Oxygen reacts with various molecules in wine, altering the chemical structure of hydrogen…