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NATO Chief's Single-Cask Ardbeg Sells Out in Days

Filed under: Spirits

Ten years ago, during his tenure as Secretary-General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Lord George Robertson visited the Ardbeg distillery. Not such a remote trip for the world leader, as Islay – the Scottish island where Ardbeg is made – is also his home, carrying as he does the honorific of Baron of Port Ellen (the island's largest town). But it was a big deal for the distillers at Ardbeg, who laid down a cask in his name.

That cask has now been bottled as a special edition, bearing the same age as the standard non-chill-filtered Ardbeg, but each bottle specially labeled and hand-signed by Robertson himself. All 202 bottles of it, each of which sold within days of its release for a handsome £220.00 apiece, with a portion of the proceeds going to the Erskine foundation to support military veterans with medical care.

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A Long Line To Meet Louboutin

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Those people hoping to meet Christian Louboutin at his new West Hollywood boutique faced a long line this afternoon. Luckily the Christian Louboutin staff was passing out napkin-wrapped bottles of Perrier with little straws. Men and women stood in line with Louboutin bags and more than a few people we wearing their red-soled beauties.