A new cognac created to be sipped specifically on the rocks was launched this week and is described as a flavour journey that will take the drinker through aromas of white peach, lemon sorbet and iced mint as the temperature of the elixir drops. Produced in the hillsides of Claix, France, near Grenoble, Ice Cognac by [...]
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A Norwegian beverage company has bottled the legend of Marilyn Monroe in an effervescent bubbly to be served in a curvy, voluptuous champagne flute in her honour. Champagne Marilyn Monroe Premier Cru Brut debuts at the world’s largest wine trade fair in Bordeaux this week, where 50,000 attendees from 47 countries are expected to converge. The [...]
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London’s luxurious Claridge’s Hotel is the winner of the Tea Guild’s Top London Afternoon Tea 2011 Award. Claridge’s has seen a recent shift in afternoon tea clientele as the hotel is frequented more and more by business men and women from the art, fashion and media world who book afternoon tea for their meeting as [...]
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Bombay Sapphire Imagination Installation, the newest global ad campaign pays tribute to the heritage and the origin of the luxury spirits brand. The Infused with Imagination campaign consists of an art installation designed by London based illustrator Yehrin Tong. Imagion Installation is a huge 3-dimensional piece meticulously crafted using more than 75,000 sparking crystals that took more [...]
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Whisky connoisseurs can rejoice as the world’s only exclusively prestige Scotch whisky range, Royal Salute, have taken their art a notch higher, by crafting a blend so rare, so sumptuous that only one man in the world has tasted it – creator and Master Blender, Colin Scott. Called the ‘Tribute to Honour’, the whisky was [...]
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Honey is the most vital and nourishing of all gathered foods, ready-made and unimprovable from the hive. Mixed with water and left for a couple of days, the solution begins to ferment, and soon enough you get mead. From it and other intoxicants sprang myths, rituals and religions and the sputtering births of what, for [...]
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A CHEF has created the most expensive kebab in the world. The dish has moved on from being a humble doner to include saffron-infused flat bread, milk-fed lamb from the Pyrenees and even edible GOLD. The aptly titled ‘King of Kebabs’ uses gold leaf for a finishing flourish and champagne-infused mint and cucumber yoghurt completes the [...]
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One of 600 bottles of Romanée-Conti Wine from 1945 that were produced during the end of World War II, set a new world record price for a 750ml bottle of red burgundy at Christie’s auction sale in Geneva on May 17. The legendary vintage of the bottle was estimated between £35,000 to £48,000 (US $56,000 to $78,000), and [...]
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The newest initiative from Absolut Vodka is developed in collaboration with Family Business, the agency behind previous launches such as Absolut Disco, Absolut Rock and Absolut Glimmer. The idea behind the design is to engage the consumer in “embracing the unexpected”. To embrace a degree of uncertainty, rather than planning every detail. We wanted the [...]
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Cycling fans will soon be able to get on their bikes at hotels from luxury chain Morgans Hotel Group, the latest name to add bicycles as a hotel amenity. Morgans, which runs several high-profile properties including London’s Sanderson Hotel and St Martins Lane Hotel and Mondrian properties in Miami and SoHo, announced a new bicycle program [...]
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The Isabella original is meant for the filthy rich and costs £3.8 Million ($6.2 Million); is covered with 8,500 diamonds (no, we did not bother counting – lets just take their word for it) and 300 rubies too. In order to hold it in place, two bars of white gold was used to cover the [...]
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It seems that the worlds most expensive market is heating up; Stuart Hughes has announced the most expensive liquor in the world. The liquor itself is from the Antica Distillery of Italy, but its the bottle which is truly breath taking. The neck of the bottle has 3 single cut flawless diamonds which are worth [...]
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Piper-Heidsieck collaborated with Jean Paul Gaultier to create a new design for its Champagne Cuvée Brut bottle. Gaultier had already created a bottle in a red corset in 1999. The new one features Latex and fishnets, inspired by the can-can. The unveiling took place at a VIP dinner on May 13 at the Cannes Film Festival. [...]
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Henry Tuke has launched their new Champagne sabre in the breathtaking gardens at the historic cellars of Champagne house Canard-Duchêne in Ludes, France. Guests at the event witnessed the founder of Henry Tuke, Tom Tuke-Hastings smash the World Record, by sabering 35 bottles of Canard-Duchêne’s Cuvée Léonie in one minute. The Henry Tuke Champagne Sabre is [...]
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Moet Hennessy, the wine and spirits arm of LVMH luxury group, said Thursday it was planting its first vineyard in China to produce a premium sparkling wine. The 66-hectare (163-acre) vineyard will be planted as a joint venture with the publicly-owned agricultural development firm of the Ningxia Hui autonomous region in northwestern China. The maker of [...]
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Looking to order the most expensive bowl of soup? Try a bowl of Pho, the classic Vietnamese noodle soup. It will be offered at a starting bid of $5,000 in a charity auction to benefit the USCF Benioff Children’s Hospital and the Children’s Hospitals of Los Angeles/Orange county. Tiato restaurant in Santa Monica, CA created [...]
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Salt defines us as a species. We are hard wired not just to want salt, but to need it, to adore it, to view it with something akin to lust. Just as we developed cattle and crops to advance from caves and savannas to villages and cities, salt is entwined with our evolution. Salt’s diversity [...]
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The buildings housing the British parliament could host wedding receptions and open their restaurants to the public under plans unveiled on Tuesday to cut the annual catering bill. A cross-party committee of lawmakers even suggested that the historic Westminster Hall, where king Charles I was tried and Winston Churchill was laid in state, could be [...]
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Call them upper upscale, call them luxury or exclusive, even the top hotels need differentiators. This is the conclusion France reached and solved the problem by allowing a few top hotels to label themselves as “palaces”, a special recognition above five stars designed to separate them from rivals and to boost the country’s position as luxury destination — it’s [...]
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For those who like to savour rather than swig but find their bubbly goes flat too soon, help is at hand. Just in time for the summer season, Marks & Spencer is selling champagne flutes that keep the fizz in for longer. The difference is five or six laser-etched dots at the bottom of the [...]
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