Food & Wine
Celebrated Brooklyn-based denim designer Loren Cronk, a star in the avant-garde street fashion scene, has designed a fitted denim bottle skin for Absolut Vodka sure to create a cool conversation piece.The Absolut Denim vodka bottle skin is the latest in the...
Paris-based fun and creative cooking festival Omnivore will be replicated in ten major cities across the world in 2013, announced founder Luc Dubanchet during the French edition that took place from March 17 to March 19. “We have international...
The widely acclaimed Lanson brand, known for its exquisite Noble Cuvée, launched at the end of last year a unique line, a dream come true for all Champagne lovers. This “Lanson Vintage Collection” exclusively comprises magnum bottles (1,...
The first 2013 edition of Tiger Translate, the streetwise, not-quite-underground arts festival, took place in Dubai in January. It was held in a typically offbeat, slightly grungy location: the car park of the Media One Hotel. The headliner was Pat Mahoney,...
The Henry Tang collection auction held at Christie's Hong Kong on March 15-16 raised a total of HK$48.05 million ($6.23 million ), far above the estimate (HK$29 million or $3.75 million). Highlights included a six-magnum lot of Romanée-Conti Grand Cru 1995...
Christie’s New York wine auction on March 14 reached a total of $1,365,666 and was a success for many lots of the exceptional Millennium vintage: the 12-bottle DRC assortment sold for $22,990 (pre-sale high $20,000), six bottles of Petrus received a...
If you’re interested in whiskey but don’t know where to start, Dominic Reskrow can help. His book, “1001 Whiskies You Must Taste Before You Die” that has just been translated into French by Flammarion, is a veritable whiskey Bible, with 960 pages...
On May 16, the Royal Opera House in London will host a charity auction of Tuscan Ornellaia estate, featuring the fifth edition of the Vendemmia d'Artista wine and art project. One Salmanazar (9l), three Imperials (6l) and four double-magnums (3l) will be put...
The elBulli cellar auction on April 3 at Sotheby’s Hong Kong will be followed by two other sales: a great American collector’s cellar on the same day, and a Vega Sicilia and other fine wines sale on the day after. Highlights of the April...
This year’s Acker, Merrall & Condit’s Hong Kong March 22-23 wine auction will mostly feature fine Bordeaux, Burgundy and some extensive California wine. Highlights of this auction include a 12-bottle case of Romanée-Conti Grand Cru 1988 (est HK$...
