Tag: cognac

On Wednesday evening, July 8th, the Hennessy Time Barrel arrived to LS Bistro (La Société) on Bloor Street as part of the cognac brand’s 250th anniversary.

Only until July 14th, 2015 you can send your message to the future 50 years from now.

Sophistication, luxury, and the finer things in life. I was fortunate enough to sit with the Hennessy Cognac brand ambassador from France, Cyrille Gautier-Auriol who shared his expert knowledge and appreciation of Cognac to have a greater insight on truly one of the finer things in life.

That was quite a grand show on July 19th at the Rogers Centre for the Jay-Z & Beyonce “On the Run” Tour that spanned cities in North America (even Winnipeg just last Sunday and also France).

I had already seen Jay-Z in Toronto with Kanye West on the Watch the Throne tour and then Jay-Z with Justin Timberlake on the Legends of the Summer tour. I also had the opportunity to see Beyonce’s solo show last year as well.

So I…

Simon Hooper, Kevin Brauch

In this issue: Event Recaps Spirited Dinner Spirits Confidential Disaronno Mixing Star Dinner Upcoming Events Boys Night Out Crave TO It was back-to-back days for me with Beam Global starting with a Spirited Dinner with Jim Beam’s Great Grandson, Fred Noe III followed by the next afternoon with fine spirit sampling at Spirits Confidential. But even after 2 days, it’s incredible how varied the amount of spirits there are to sample with the large Jim Beam collection of brands ranging…

We had such a great time at Evergreen Brick Works with Lifford Wine Agency celebrating everything that men enjoy including fine scotch, cognac, great bbq (ribs, pulled pork), Callaway had a driving range.  Audi showed their top cars including an R8 and TT-S. There was some flare for fashion with the help of Harry Rosen with an array of suits and Sharp Magazine. For our first Lifford Boys Night Out, it was surprising to us that there was a lack…