Category: Cigars & Spirits
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World’s most rare dark chocolate puts special emphasis on terroir
To’ak’s Rain Harvest 2014 edition. This bucket list-worthy experience deserves to be enjoyed in its own room with reverence and ritual. There probably should even be a certain gown worn while mindfully sampling every sensory element—aroma, texture, flavor, and finish. We are speaking about To’ak Chocolate’s 574 bars of what may well be the world’s…
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Champagne is all a matter of taste – but the taste doesn’t really matter
Experts are saying that upmarket champagne tastes better out of a normal wine glass than out of a flute – is this the new shape of alpha snobbery?
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Perrier-Jouët’s Ephemerā. A delicate game of hide-and-seek
Design Miami/ 2014: mischer’traxler for Perrier-Jouët. In its role as a patron of design art Champagne house Perrier-Jouët stimulates curiosity, exploring the magical dialogue between Mankind and Nature through ‘Ephemerā’ design work revealed at Design Miami/ 2014. Exploring traditional craftsmanship, modern technology, the ephemerality of nature, and the Art Nouveau movement, Austrian designers Katharina Mischer and Thomas…
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Hublot Classic Fusion “Forbidden X” with real tobacco leaves in their dial
Hublot Classic Fusion “Forbidden X”, 2nd part of the collaboration with Arturo Fuente Cigar Factory. Swiss watch manufacturer Hublot announced a second watch developed together with one one of the biggest names in the cigar industry. The ForbiddenX cigar is known and prized by connoisseurs from across the globe. At the Chateau de la Fuente manufacture…
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Decanted by Jon Buscemi at Art Basel
Jon Buscemi x Hennessy V.S.O.P set of ultra limited-edition collaborative products. Creating with one’s hands may be a lost art, but it is rediscovered at Art Basel Miami – from the greatest canvases to the best-appointed feet and most sophisticated libations. In collaboration for Art Basel, Hennessy V.S.O.P Privilege and Jon Buscemi, two iconic creators,…
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Mario Testino is Macallan’s fifth Master of Photography
Renowned for his mastery of composition – the artistic arrangement and placement of visual elements within the picture – and for creating a reflective and intense connection with his sitters, be it celebrities or royalty, Mario Testino has now turned his lens to The Macallan. The Masters of Photography: Mario Testino Edition is The…