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Those who take their after-dinner drinks seriously should head to Highway4 (www.highway4.com). This wholly authentic bar-restaurant insists that patrons take off their shoes before they sit on cozy bamboo mats and indulge in Vietnamese rice wines with purported medicinal properties. Lychee and banana-flavored shots get the night going, but potent animal-based spirits are said to have more lasting effects: snake wine reduces back pain and scorpion wine is thought to be a sexual stimulant...
...fashion, thanks to the sharp antennae of its cosmopolitan designers. Second, French cuisine - built on the foundation of Italian and, increasingly, Asian traditions - remains the global standard. Third, French winemakers are using techniques developed abroad to retain their reputation for excellence in the face of competition from newer wine-growing regions. Tellingly, many French vines were long ago grafted onto disease-resistant rootstocks from, of all places, the U.S. "We have to take the risk of globalization," says Villa Gillet's Guy Walter. "We must welcome the outside world...
...Vinothérapie spa in the newly renovated Plaza Hotel. The 8,000-sq.-ft. (about 745 sq m) space features a landmarked brick wall that has been incorporated into the spa's signature warm décor. Adding a new element to the spa experience will be a wine bar that will host tastings and lessons for guests...
...first encounters with this kind of innate flair occurred in Milan more than a decade ago. I was invited to a dinner at Fulvia Ferragamo's home, a sumptuous apartment filled with tapestries and paintings. The food cooked by the family's chef was delicious. The wine was from the Ferragamos' Tuscan vineyard, Il Borro. Every detail, down to the hostess's warm greeting, spoke to the family's generosity and enthusiasm for life, qualities they inherited from Salvatore himself. I often think of that evening as a barometer of luxury, a measure of what it means to live with...
...bodyguard during much of the mayoral campaign, and he offered to meet the mayor the next morning. "No," said Giuliani. "Now." It was 10:30, but Kerik trooped over to Gracie Mansion and joined the mayor in a poorly lit parlor, where they shared a bottle of red wine that had been a gift from Nelson Mandela. "It was good to see him again," Kerik recalled. "It reminded me of the conversations we used to have during the campaign." The two men talked for a while, discussing Giuliani's first year as mayor and the unfinished tasks ahead, like cleaning...