Kevin Pilley

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The New Montecristo Fragata

Montecristo takes to the skies with Fragata, a new Duke-format Habano created exclusively for duty-free and travel retail. Holding patterns can test a cigar smoker’s resolve. The safety-belt sign glows overhead, the long-haul...

Champagne and Cigars: The Art of the Perfect Pairing

Cream, cedar, and blanched almonds meet brioche. Cocoa and espresso find raisin and date. A Cameroon wrapper seems to catch the pineapple and passion fruit in the glass without disturbing its salinity,...

Making an Entrance at the Monaco Yacht Show

There are arrivals, and then there are entrances. At the Monaco Yacht Show, where Port Hercule fills with some of the most extraordinary yachts on the planet, and understatement is largely left...

Have Yourself a Matcha Martini

These are questions all of us have asked, or perhaps should have asked more often. What goes with wagyu egg rolls? What should one drink with duck wings? And what, exactly, is best...

Pizza and Gelato, by Bvlgari

Paris has suddenly become the centre of the gourmet pizza and haute-cuisine gelato world, which is not a sentence one expects to write without provoking at least a small diplomatic incident in...

Trinidad, Women and Cigars

It is the men who are leaving the room now, leaving the women to their cigars. At the Petit Palais of the Fairmont Montreux Palace in Switzerland, some 300 international guests recently gathered...

Tatratea, Slovakia’s Spirit of the High Tatras

In the High Tatras, hospitality has long carried a certain practicality. Cold weather, steep terrain, and isolated mountain cottages created their own rituals, and one of the most enduring was the simple...

Brugal’s New Rum Captures the Spirit of the Dominican Republic

There are easier ways to bring coconut into a rum, but Brugal chose the more interesting route. For the final release in its Colección Visionaria series, the Dominican house has turned to...

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