Food & Wine
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Robert Michael Poole
TOKYO – David Bowie’s association with Japan continues this week with the opening of a David Bowie Café within the Sony Building, Ginza, for three weeks.The café is being created to celebrate the launch of Bowie’s first album in ten years, titled “The Next...
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Egmont Labadie
Bonhams California wines auction on March 9 in San Francisco (read preview here) sold all 64 lots of the highly praised Sine Qua Non very limited production. The highest price paid was for six bottles of The Inaugural syrah and grenache 2003,...
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Egmont Labadie
Zachys La Paulée de New York auction (see preview here) sold a Romanée-Conti Grand Cru Methuselah for $140,000 (buyer's premium of 22.5 percent excluded), reaching its pre-sale high estimate. This large format bottle contains six liters...
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Egmont Labadie
Dutch beer maker Heineken has collaborated with the French record label Ed Banger, of Justice and Busy P fame, to celebrate its 140 birthday with a limited-edition bottle. Designed by the label's graphic designer and animator Bertrand Lagros de Langeron, AKA...
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Egmont Labadie
Oenophiles, take note: “Le domaine de la Romanée-Conti” won the 2013 Gourmand Award during February's Paris Cookbook Fair for the year's best wine book.This impressive work of 300 large-format pages was written by a Dutch wine...
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Egmont Labadie
Christie's New York wine auction on March 14 will have a special focus — the year 2000 in Bordeaux and Burgundy. Highlights of the 117 lots from this Millennium vintage include a 12-bottle DRC assortment of six Vosne-Romanée Grands Crus (est $16,000 to $...
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Lisa Mamounas
It’s that time of year when New York swells with over 60,000 international collectors, gallerists, curators, and those that just appreciate art. Between trying to navigate numerous alternative fairs and social functions surrounding the Armory Show, the...
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Egmont Labadie
Bonhams San Francisco wine and spirit auction on March 9 will feature a beautiful and complete eight-decanter Courvoisier edition from 1988, designed by fashion illustrator Romain de Tirtoff, aka Erté (1892-1990) known as the father...
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Egmont Labadie
Christie's London will auction on Mar 21 wine bottles from the UK's Government Hospitality Cellar, including numerous large format ones and delicious Burgundy white wines. The Governement Hospitality Cellar will sell six prestigious lots...
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Egmont Labadie
Sotheby's London February 27 fine wine auction was a real success: 98 percent of the lots were sold, reaching a total amount of £685,825 ($1,035,596) versus a pre-sale high estimate at £645,660 ($974,947). Among the top items: a DRC Montrachet 1993...
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