Author: Duncan Quinn

The stunning yachts feature cushioned sun-lounging areas and sleek interiors reminiscent of a New York City loft. (VanDutch) Days have passed in the heat haze and a blur of vintage Dom Pérignon French 75s, Boulevardiers, and Negronis. Secret chambers filled with foie gras, lavender, husky voices, and cigar smoke combined to discombobulate the senses and […]

“I don’t want folks to just taste my cigars with their palates, I want them to feel my cigars in their very souls.” (Ferio Tego) At some point on the timeline you have to declare what you are for, against, and otherwise not concerned about. Back in the day if you stacked up enough Benjamins, […]

Indian on ice. (Indian Motorcycle) “Two of Chevy, one of Ford,” with a touch of titanium to add to the witch’s brew of piston mix. Pistons for the fastest motorcycle under 1,000cc the Bonneville Salt Flats have ever seen. The bike in question was a highly modified 1919 Indian Scout, built by Burt Munro, an […]

You can’t go wrong with fine champagnes from Krug, Louis Roederer, Pol Roger, Pommery, Bollinge and Dom Pérignon. (Getty Images) “We grow old too fast, and wise too slow” said the sign above the bar in the historic hotel in upstate New York, given a flash of new life by an artistic couple with plenty […]

Celebrities, royals, rock ’n’ roll stars, the great, the good, and the intoxicated have been flocking to Les Caves Du Roy since 1967. (Les Caves du Roy) The story of the infamous Les Caves du Roy nightclub at the Hotel Byblos in St. Tropez starts with a fairytale. And a fairytale princess Vanity Fair once […]

Petrus Christie’s auction house is now offering the chance to boldly go where no oenophile has gone before—in the form of a bottle of Petrus from outer space. The bottle of Petrus 2000 spent 14 months in orbit as part of a privately-funded research study on food and agriculture.  The expected cost to own it, […]

McLaren A wave of calm descended as my first round of hyper-fresh briny oysters slid down. I was sitting at the Saltwater Oyster Bar in Inverness, a white clapboard ode to local ingredients with gastro-nautical chops, on a stretch of sleepy road in Marin County, California.  Across the mists of Tomales Bay, past the siren […]

Marco Rimondi I was suffering mild panic attacks, with euphoria and trepidation thrown in. And that was before I’d even swung a leg over. It wasn’t COVID-19. It was two wheels with a power-to-weight ratio more than twice that of a Bugatti Chiron.  Weighing in at 159 kg, not far north of where I tip […]

The Brough Superior Lawrence Brough Superior Motorcycles The final ten Brough Superior SS100 motorcycles were made in 1940, the last of a very special breed. That is until 2008, when the grandson of a British bespoke tailor, Mark Upham, acquired and consolidated the Brough trademarks. Perhaps Upham’s grandfather and George Brough had sold complementary outfits […]

Henry Hargreaves/Taken at Jungsik When I die and go to heaven there had better be DRC. For I certainly have not imbibed enough of the wines of the legendary Domaine de la Romanée-Conti. The juice of the gods sucked from the ground through Pinot Noir and Chardonnay grapes into your glass via Burgundy in France.  […]