Food & Wine
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$...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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 $...
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...
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...
