Lavish bedrooms, the city's best views to gaze upon, and largest of bath tubs to soak are just a few of the perks of the World's Sexiest Penthouses. Our buddies at Gadling shows us Condé Nast Traveler's list of these ultra penthouses. Take the Skylofts at MGM Grand in Las Vegas for instance, at $10,000 per night, which includes the room-sized "immersion chambers" (large showers dousing you with waterfalls, steam, and rain). There is also the Presidential Suite in Intercontinental Hong Kong at $11,215 a night, where you can rest in infinity pool while staring at one of the most beautiful skylines in the world.The World's Sexiest Penthouses
Lavish bedrooms, the city's best views to gaze upon, and largest of bath tubs to soak are just a few of the perks of the World's Sexiest Penthouses. Our buddies at Gadling shows us Condé Nast Traveler's list of these ultra penthouses. Take the Skylofts at MGM Grand in Las Vegas for instance, at $10,000 per night, which includes the room-sized "immersion chambers" (large showers dousing you with waterfalls, steam, and rain). There is also the Presidential Suite in Intercontinental Hong Kong at $11,215 a night, where you can rest in infinity pool while staring at one of the most beautiful skylines in the world.Swarovski Crystalised Fridge by Gorenje
Appropriately named The Eye-catcher, this premium fridge-freezer is all black featuring 7,000 hand
embedded crystals from Swarovski. Only 10 will be produced, which should get things rolling on the Commercial
Line which is based on the Eye-catcher. It comes in black and silver with a still reputable 3,500
crystals. The high tech fridge is controlled by an eye level screen mounted on the fridge door allowing temperature
adjustments, monitoring and alarms to be set in addition to a voice recorder/player. Price to be announced.
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Beer Spas
I have always used the occasional left over Belgian brew to wash my hair with the next morning (try it out, it leaves
your hair silky and clean), but I don’t know why it never struck me to bathe in beer. Over the past 10 years,
beer spas have popped up in Austria, Germany, and the Czech Republic. At these beer spas, every sense is enveloped in
beer; the bubbly sticky liquid on your skin, the hops in the air, to the beer in your mug. You can also try the brewski
facial: an über gooey face mask made from ground hops, malt, honey and cream cheese. These half hour bath
treatments start at about $55.Vega Sicilia Wine Tasting
On Sunday,
April 30, Compass Restaurant in New York City is hosting an exclusive
six-course meal prepared by Chef John Fraser paired with hand-picked Vega Scilia wines. Vega Scilia is known for their
meticulous wine making processes coupled with an extremely long aging period and low harvest yields which result in
their famous wines prized for their complexity, elegance, and finesse. This unique opportunity to explore wines from
Spain’s most stately producer, while at the same time savoring the imaginative, sophisticated flavor pairings
will cost $515. Read further to see Fraser’s 6-course menu paired with appropriate wines:
Hendrick's Gin
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Hold the lime, make it a cucumber!
A cucumber is the best choice of fruit for your Hendrick’s gin and
tonic. The cucumber brings out the fortifying combination of infused botanicals. In this old apothecary shaped
bottle you will find a gin infused with Bulgarian Rose, coriander, and cucumbers. Unlike most English made gins,
Hendrick's is small batch distilled in Ayrshire, Scotland. The lowland Scottish water provides the perfect medium for
the grain spirit and the unusual array of botanicals.I can unhesitatingly say this is absolutely the best gin I have ever had. Feathery, crisp, and a clear essence of cucumber. With it I have made an absolutely prestigious gin martini and gin and tonic.
Video of Tuesday's Glenfiddich Auction
Fresh off the press… video of the exciting auction for the Rare 1937 Glenfiddich.
Rare 1937 Glenfiddich sold
Yours truly attended last night’s auction
of the Glenfiddich Rare Collection 1937 that we mentioned earlier. A bottle
of the world's oldest whisky was auctioned off for the first time at the hammer price of $20,000. It was a pretty
intense auction with prices going back and forth, and a pretty feisty auctioneer (be sure to check back in a few days,
as I will be posting a video of the auction).
I was fortunate enough to speak with some of the folks at Glenfiddich, and they uncorked the original cask from 1937 and allowed me to literally stick my nose in it. The bouquet of smells were amazing! The interesting thing is that when this cask left Scotland it was dry, and after being in the US for a few days, the difference of climate caused the whiskey to be released from the wood, creating a new puddle of whiskey.
Half Smoked Cigar for Auction
Why would a 56 year old half-smoked
cigar be of any value to anybody? Because it was once smoked by Winston Churchill of course. The former Prime
Minster of the United Kingdom was about to give a speech in a ballroom where he was asked to extinguish his half burnt
cigar. Churchill snubbed it on the ground and handed it to the constable standing next to him. This once souvenir to
the constable is now being sold by his relatives. The half ashed cigar will be going up for sale in April, but
the amount is unknown as this is such an unusual auction.
A Personal Taste Of Compass Box: Asyla
Next up of the Compass Box line I had this weekend is Asyla. Not refined
as the earlier mentioned Peat Monster, but still very pleasant on the tongue. Grainy, with dry fruit tastes and the
finish reminds me of the pepperness of a strong black coffee. Pretty drinkable. Asyla is a 50/50 blend of grain and
malt whiskies mostly from Cragganmore, Linkwood, Glen Elgin, Cabus, and Cameron Bridge.A Personal Taste Of Compass Box: The Peat Monster
I finally got to try The Peat
Monster by Compass Box this weekend and was quite impressed considering
that your everyday urbane whisky drinkers are not too familiar with this brand. I have a personal infatuation for peaty
whiskies and this truly hits the spot. The smokiness was so dynamic that it reminded me of a char cooked porterhouse on
an open campfire. It coats the tongue quite copiously like a fine oil. Malty, sweet, and almost smokes off the
tongue. It went well with the Spanish blue cheese I was having at the time. The Peat Monster is comprised of vatted
100% single malt whisky mainly made of Caol Ila and Ardmore, all aged between 10 and 15 years old.
Quarter Century Macallan in Lalique
The Macallan decided to go all out, where an
ordinary glass container would not be adequate to hold their special 50 year single malt. Lalique will be hand
blowing an exclusive 470 decanters made to resemble the Spanish sherry barrels in which the Scotch rested for five
decades. Only 20 will be for sale in the UK, which makes me feel pretty special here in the US where we will get
100 at about $6,000 each. The whisky is presented in a leather and silk box, with a crystal stopper and a leather-bound
collectors guide with The Macallan’s Easter Elchies House Stamp of approval. The burnish gold-colored malt is rich
with flavors of cardamom, black cherries, and chocolate.Glenlivet Cellar Collection 1972
With a strong
reputation for very special expressions, every year a selection of exceptional whisky is brought to the
market from The Glenlivet Cellar Collection. A vatting of 10 casks from a single day’s distillation of
August 24, 1972 will be this year’s selection. After the filling on that Thursday, the parcel of casks were
placed into Warehouse 5 at the distillery and stored in the lower tier of stows 87 and 89. The richness and
fruitiness found in this creation could only be obtained by the choice climate, cask wood, and generous age. Bottled at
natural cask strength without cill-filtration, the 1972 collection is a definitive Speyside single malt whisky. Only 800
bottles have been released to the US which will run about $700 each.Corneliani 2006 Spring collection
Corneliani, makers of fine Italian suits,
is set to open their first shop-in-shop in Saks Fifth Avenue in New York this fall. These fashionable needle workers
are known for their avant-garde fabrics and cuts. Seeing the sea as the most important element has inspired their 2006
colors with the crystal clear depths of turquoises and emerald greens. From ivory to mother-of-pearl and up to slate
gray, sophisticated elegance is conveyed through the stretch of whites, honeys and grays. With 150 fabrics and 250
exclusive patterns at your disposal, your custom measured suit will be cut and sewn in Mantova, Italy to be delivered
in 3 weeks.Glenrothes Select Reserve
As a non-vintage specific
selection, Glenrothes Select Reserve is a vatting of casks from various years representing the heart and essence of
Glenrothes. These batches from unspecified years are chosen by John Ramsay, the malt master, with emphasis on quality
and consistency and will be available as an on-going basis rather than the typical ‘out and done’ release
of vintages. The idea here overcomes the shortage of single malts we have come to get used to and makes The Glenrothes
more widely available. The ripe fruits, citrus, vanilla and hint of spice notes are characteristically complex with a
creamy texture on the tongue. The barrel shaped bottle is about $45. Jessica Simpson getting $1,240 per spoken word
This is the first time I have heard of somebody getting paid for each uttered word. Amazingly Jessica
Simpson, someone not quite known for her colloquy, will be getting a whopping $1,240 for every utterance of
communication. For a meager 806 words plus some extra bucks for showing her face, the singer will be getting a
hunky-dory 1 million dollars. She will be playing a hot cashier who makes all the men go ga-ga in the film Employee
of the Month, which has just begun filming.
