THE BACKSTORY // A European private equity firm, Cap Gamma, bought Reuge in 2003. In 2011, it did some $10 million in sales a 27 percent boost from a year earlier selling these precious boxes in more than 30 countries.
Head Over Heels
his Swiss leather goods company in 1851. Exactly a century later, his grandson Max created the company's top of the line shoe, The Scribe, after staying in the Paris hotel of the same name. Under the umbrella of Swiss luxury marketer the Labelux Group since 2008, Bally has stepped up its game with a made to order Scribe collection. Once measured, the customer chooses from 14 hand dyed styles and colors, five skins, and three soles. The ultimate indulgence: Take delivery in a specially fitted Sri Lankan Macassar ebony presentation box that converts into a fine humidor. Paige Reddinger
The Culture In the Rye
The original American whiskey emerges in style from bourbon's shadow.
Fine rye whiskey has tended to be a rare indulgence for reasons less to do with taste (it's bold, spicy, and complex) than logistics. Although today's cult ryes often profess antiquity (Templeton's, for instance, claims to be produced from Al Capone's favorite recipe; Michter's traces its origin story all the way back to 1753), the drink has generally been near impossible to find since Prohibition, as the big bourbon brands have dominated American whiskey sales. Boosted by mixologists and microdistillers, sales of rye based spirits (bourbon's mash is corn based) jumped roughly 50 percent last year albeit from a modest base hinting at a renaissance. Here are a few of our favorites. Richard Nalley
THE BACKSTORY // Raj Bhakta, serial entrepreneur and sometime Congressional candidate, made most of his money in Vail real estate before debuting WhistlePig in 2010. "We started with rye," he says, "because it's the most flavorful of all whiskeys." Initial production was 2,500 cases, which doubled to 5,000 last year, a pattern he hopes to repeat for the next five years.
Hudson Manhattan Rye ($45 per 375 ml/ 92 proof) Hudson Valley based Tuthilltown Spirits bottles this pale amber beauty with intricate notes of butterscotch, floral perfume, and sweet, earthy grain. Honestly, they don't charge enough.
Michter's 25 Year Old Single Barrel Rye ($400/117 proof) Kentucky's Michter's claims a "damn the expense" production policy that results in this showstopper, a Wagnerian scaled whiskey that somehow, in the end, provides sophisticated, ultra smooth sipping.
Passport For Your Wrist
No matter where you are on the planet, these multizone world timers have you calibrated.
Cartier CEO Bernard Fornas has been bringing design and watch movement production in house over the past four years, pushing his firm into the high complexity, limited product realm of watchmaking dominated by the likes of Patek Philippe and Vacheron Constantin. confusion) and also boasts a formidable technical breakthrough: The 9909 MC might be the only watch on earth that accounts for summer hour shifts between time zones. Paige Reddinger
Jaeger Lecoultre Master Compressor World Chronograph in titanium and steel ($16,600). Its patented shock absorption system can buffer up to 50 percent of the energy from any knock to the wrist, protecting its accuracy.
Vacheron Constantin Patrimony Traditionnelle World Time in 18 karat pink gold ($48,900). Rather than a mere 24 time zones, this world timer also displays those offset by a half or quarter hour 37 zones in all.Watches And Whiskey
THE BACKSTORY // A European private equity firm, Cap Gamma, bought Reuge in 2003. In 2011, it did some $10 million in sales a 27 percent boost from a year earlier selling these precious boxes in more than 30 countries.
Head Over Heels
his Swiss leather goods company in 1851. Exactly a century later, his grandson Max created the company's top of the line shoe, The Scribe, after staying in the Paris hotel of the same name. Under the umbrella of Swiss luxury marketer the Labelux Group since 2008, Bally has stepped up its game with a made to order Scribe collection. Once measured, the customer chooses from 14 hand dyed styles and colors, five skins, and three soles. The ultimate indulgence: Take delivery in a specially fitted Sri Lankan Macassar ebony presentation box that converts into a fine humidor. Paige Reddinger
The Culture In the Rye
The original American whiskey emerges in style from bourbon's shadow.
Fine rye whiskey has tended to be a rare indulgence for reasons less to do with taste (it's bold, spicy, and complex) than logistics. Although today's cult ryes often profess antiquity (Templeton's, for instance, claims to be produced from Al Capone's favorite recipe; Michter's traces its origin story all the way back to 1753), the drink has generally been near impossible to find since Prohibition, as the big bourbon brands have dominated American whiskey sales. Boosted by mixologists and microdistillers, sales of rye based spirits (bourbon's mash is corn based) jumped roughly 50 percent last year albeit from a modest base hinting at a renaissance. Here are a few of our favorites. Richard Nalley
THE BACKSTORY // Raj Bhakta, serial entrepreneur and sometime Congressional candidate, made most of his money in Vail real estate before debuting WhistlePig in 2010. "We started with rye," he says, "because it's the most flavorful of all whiskeys." Initial production was 2,500 cases, which doubled to 5,000 last year, a pattern he hopes to repeat for the next five years.
Hudson Manhattan Rye ($45 per 375 ml/ 92 proof) Hudson Valley based Tuthilltown Spirits bottles this pale amber beauty with intricate notes of butterscotch, floral perfume, and sweet, earthy grain. Honestly, they don't charge enough.
Michter's 25 Year Old Single Barrel Rye ($400/117 proof) Kentucky's Michter's claims a "damn the expense" production policy that results in this showstopper, a Wagnerian scaled whiskey that somehow, in the end, provides sophisticated, ultra smooth sipping.
Passport For Your Wrist
No matter where you are on the planet, these multizone world timers have you calibrated.
Cartier CEO Bernard Fornas has been bringing design and watch movement production in house over the past four years, pushing his firm into the high complexity, limited product realm of watchmaking dominated by the likes of Patek Philippe and Vacheron Constantin. confusion) and also boasts a formidable technical breakthrough: The 9909 MC might be the only watch on earth that accounts for summer hour shifts between time zones. Paige Reddinger
Jaeger Lecoultre Master Compressor World Chronograph in titanium and steel ($16,600). Its patented shock absorption system can buffer up to 50 percent of the energy from any knock to the wrist, protecting its accuracy.
Vacheron Constantin Patrimony Traditionnelle World Time in 18 karat pink gold ($48,900). Rather than a mere 24 time zones, this world timer also displays those offset by a half or quarter hour 37 zones in all.Watches And Whiskey
THE BACKSTORY // A European private equity firm, Cap Gamma, bought Reuge in 2003. In 2011, it did some $10 million in sales a 27 percent boost from a year earlier selling these precious boxes in more than 30 countries.
Head Over Heels
his Swiss leather goods company in 1851. Exactly a century later, his grandson Max created the company's top of the line shoe, The Scribe, after staying in the Paris hotel of the same name. Under the umbrella of Swiss luxury marketer the Labelux Group since 2008, Bally has stepped up its game with a made to order Scribe collection. Once measured, the customer chooses from 14 hand dyed styles and colors, five skins, and three soles. The ultimate indulgence: Take delivery in a specially fitted Sri Lankan Macassar ebony presentation box that converts into a fine humidor. Paige Reddinger
The Culture In the Rye
The original American whiskey emerges in style from bourbon's shadow.
Fine rye whiskey has tended to be a rare indulgence for reasons less to do with taste (it's bold, spicy, and complex) than logistics. Although today's cult ryes often profess antiquity (Templeton's, for instance, claims to be produced from Al Capone's favorite recipe; Michter's traces its origin story all the way back to 1753), the drink has generally been near impossible to find since Prohibition, as the big bourbon brands have dominated American whiskey sales. Boosted by mixologists and microdistillers, sales of rye based spirits (bourbon's mash is corn based) jumped roughly 50 percent last year albeit from a modest base hinting at a renaissance. Here are a few of our favorites. Richard Nalley
THE BACKSTORY // Raj Bhakta, serial entrepreneur and sometime Congressional candidate, made most of his money in Vail real estate before debuting WhistlePig in 2010. "We started with rye," he says, "because it's the most flavorful of all whiskeys." Initial production was 2,500 cases, which doubled to 5,000 last year, a pattern he hopes to repeat for the next five years.
Hudson Manhattan Rye ($45 per 375 ml/ 92 proof) Hudson Valley based Tuthilltown Spirits bottles this pale amber beauty with intricate notes of butterscotch, floral perfume, and sweet, earthy grain. Honestly, they don't charge enough.
Michter's 25 Year Old Single Barrel Rye ($400/117 proof) Kentucky's Michter's claims a "damn the expense" production policy that results in this showstopper, a Wagnerian scaled whiskey that somehow, in the end, provides sophisticated, ultra smooth sipping.
Passport For Your Wrist
No matter where you are on the planet, these multizone world timers have you calibrated.
Cartier CEO Bernard Fornas has been bringing design and watch movement production in house over the past four years, pushing his firm into the high complexity, limited product realm of watchmaking dominated by the likes of Patek Philippe and Vacheron Constantin. confusion) and also boasts a formidable technical breakthrough: The 9909 MC might be the only watch on earth that accounts for summer hour shifts between time zones. Paige Reddinger
Jaeger Lecoultre Master Compressor World Chronograph in titanium and steel ($16,600). Its patented shock absorption system can buffer up to 50 percent of the energy from any knock to the wrist, protecting its accuracy.
Vacheron Constantin Patrimony Traditionnelle World Time in 18 karat pink gold ($48,900). Rather than a mere 24 time zones, this world timer also displays those offset by a half or quarter hour 37 zones in all.
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