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TUSCAN HIGHS<br />
Latest happenings in<br />
Italy’s thriving region<br />
ON THE WALL<br />
Stencil art is making<br />
a mark with collectors<br />
IN THE ZONE<br />
Mayo Clinic’s guide<br />
to beating jet lag<br />
CLUB FANTASTIC<br />
Costa Navarino gets<br />
a golfing upgrade<br />
ANGLER’S DELIGHT<br />
Top resorts and lodges<br />
for fishing fanatics
TAKING OFF<br />
W<br />
ITH SEVERAL HOLIDAYS PEPPERED THROUGHOUT THE QUARTER,<br />
IT LEADS TO AN UPTICK IN TRAVEL – WHAT WE CALL OUR<br />
“PEAK PERIOD”.<br />
With many Owners taking the opportunity to spend time with<br />
family and friends, it’s a good reminder to do what we can to<br />
stay healthy throughout the season. We share this as we read the latest Mayo Clinic<br />
research on jet lag.<br />
On pages 38-40, Dr Vanichkachorn of Mayo Clinic’s Aerospace Medicine team estimates<br />
that it takes about one day per time zone you cross to adjust to your location. He also<br />
offers fantastic tips to lessen the jet lag when flying with us.<br />
This insight may have proven helpful for recent passengers on our longest flight ever<br />
in terms of time (a <strong>NetJets</strong> US Global 7500 flew from Hong Kong to Manchester,<br />
New Hampshire). That 15-plus hour flight might typically lend to a day’s-long recovery;<br />
however, we are hopeful that the comfort of <strong>NetJets</strong> – in addition to Mayo Clinic’s<br />
advice – can allow you to start your holidays (jet-lag free!) upon arrival.<br />
As you embark on your travels over the next couple of months, we wish you and your<br />
family a safe and healthy holiday season.<br />
Only <strong>NetJets</strong>!<br />
Adam Johnson<br />
Chairman and CEO<br />
CONTRIBUTORS<br />
JOSH SIMS<br />
The London-based<br />
writer delved into<br />
the world of the<br />
sketch artist for<br />
From Street Corner<br />
to Sotheby’s<br />
(page 56), and<br />
discovered why the<br />
most rebellious<br />
of art forms is<br />
gaining a veneer<br />
of respectability<br />
among collectors.<br />
CLAIRE WRATHALL<br />
For The Power of<br />
Art (page 10), the<br />
scribe investigated<br />
the work of the<br />
Arete Arts, a new<br />
charity that aims<br />
to bring African<br />
artists to the<br />
fore and support<br />
environmental<br />
and social<br />
causes around<br />
the continent.<br />
MATTHEW SHAVE<br />
Elegant fashions<br />
and must-have<br />
accessories, from<br />
high-end watches<br />
to the latest<br />
camera equipment,<br />
feature in A Man’s<br />
World (page 60),<br />
a timely guide<br />
for gentlemen<br />
as captured by<br />
the experienced<br />
photographer.<br />
NIGEL TISDALL<br />
With a keen<br />
interest in all<br />
things eco, the<br />
veteran journalist<br />
was drawn to the<br />
work of The Nature<br />
Conservancy,<br />
whose efforts to<br />
save our precious<br />
oceans and sealife<br />
he chronicles in<br />
Bonding with the<br />
Blue (page 64).<br />
IVAN CARVALHO<br />
Having been based<br />
in Italy since 2003,<br />
the American writer<br />
is well set to judge<br />
the latest Tuscan<br />
Triumphs (page<br />
14), as the fabled<br />
Italian region<br />
welcomes some<br />
fantastic new<br />
openings, while<br />
some old favourites<br />
offer that bit more.<br />
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the story’s subject, with approximate distances in miles and kilometres where applicable.<br />
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CONTENTS<br />
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DINE WITH A VIEW<br />
La Roqqa, Porto Ercole,<br />
page 14<br />
68 52 44<br />
AFRICA FORWARD<br />
Arete Arts is a new charity<br />
championing the best of<br />
African artists<br />
pages 10-13<br />
ON THE HOOK<br />
Fishing spots around the<br />
world that offer comfort<br />
and a great catch<br />
pages 44-51<br />
OMAKASE, OH MY<br />
Discreet venues and<br />
exceptional fare lead<br />
London’s Japanese scene<br />
pages 68-73<br />
IN THE NEWS<br />
Developments in Tuscany,<br />
audio excellence, the<br />
finest spirits, and more<br />
pages 14-31<br />
SWING TIME<br />
Costa Navarino continues<br />
to evolve as Greece’s<br />
golfing hot spot<br />
pages 52-55<br />
BUBBLING UP<br />
Grower champagnes are<br />
winning over even the<br />
haughtiest oenophiles<br />
pages 74-77<br />
NETJETS UPDATE<br />
Latest events, staff<br />
in profile, plus <strong>NetJets</strong><br />
and United Autosports<br />
pages 32-36<br />
STREET SAVVY<br />
How stencil art has moved<br />
from outside walls to<br />
inside auction houses<br />
pages 56-59<br />
TURKISH DELIGHT<br />
A spectacular new<br />
building houses Istanbul<br />
Modern’s treasures<br />
pages 78-85<br />
ALESSANDRO MOGGI, © MANDARIN ORIENTAL, JACOB SJÖMAN, © CASA DE CAMPO<br />
STAY ON TRACK<br />
Mayo Clinic’s guide to<br />
counter and deal with<br />
the effects of jet lag<br />
pages 38-40<br />
ALL ABOUT HIM<br />
Statement fashion and<br />
accessories for the man<br />
about town this season<br />
pages 60-63<br />
BLUE AND GREEN<br />
The Nature Conservancy<br />
is producing a plan to<br />
save the world’s oceans<br />
pages 64-67<br />
THE LAST WORD<br />
Architect Frank Gehry<br />
on his life away from his<br />
iconic drawing board<br />
page 86<br />
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NETJETS, THE MAGAZINE<br />
FRONT COVER<br />
Aerial view of the<br />
Epidaurus theatre, Greece<br />
(See page 52 for the<br />
best golf in Greece.)<br />
Image by George<br />
Pachantouris<br />
AUTUMN <strong>2023</strong> // VOLUME 23<br />
EDITOR IN CHIEF<br />
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EDITOR<br />
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PHOTO DIRECTOR<br />
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ART DIRECTOR<br />
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MANAGING EDITOR<br />
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STAFF WRITER<br />
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CHIEF SUB-EDITOR<br />
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PRODUCTION DIRECTOR<br />
Albert Keller<br />
SEPARATION<br />
Delnaz Loftimaragh<br />
WRITERS, CONTRIBUTORS,<br />
PHOTOGRAPHERS AND<br />
ILLUSTRATORS<br />
Ivan Carvalho, Jörn Kaspuhl,<br />
Larry Olmsted, Christiaan<br />
Porter, Julian Rentzsch,<br />
Matthew Shave, Josh Sims,<br />
Nigel Tisdall, Elisa Vallata,<br />
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GOODWILL<br />
THE POWER OF ART<br />
Arete Arts is a remarkable new charitable venture that<br />
aims both to support African artists as well as contribute to<br />
environmental and social causes // By Claire Wrathall<br />
JAN KOENIG<br />
LEARNING YOUNG<br />
Children in La Palais de<br />
Lomé gardens look over a<br />
bronze sculpture by the<br />
Togo-born artist<br />
Amouzou Amouzou-Glikpa<br />
IT WAS AS colleagues, passionate about<br />
conservation, that Emilia Keladitis and<br />
Stephanie Sluka first met and discovered<br />
their shared love for African art and culture.<br />
Professionally, they were focused on funding<br />
conservation efforts aimed at protecting<br />
African natural habitats and biodiversity.<br />
They became friends and together began<br />
to discover emerging artists across the<br />
African continent, many of them themselves<br />
passionate about the environment. Africa<br />
is one of the lowest contributors to climate<br />
change and yet suffers some of the most<br />
dire consequences; drought, famine,<br />
flooding. “We believe in the transformational<br />
power of the arts” says Keladitis, who is<br />
based in Europe but grew up in Botswana.<br />
Sluka is American but has been based in<br />
Africa for the last 15 years. Both believe<br />
that “art is a powerful way to engage people<br />
emotionally and deepen the discourse<br />
around social and environmental topics”.<br />
The intention was to publish a coffee<br />
table book on African contemporary art,<br />
celebrating African natural landscapes,<br />
with all profits going to fund grassroots<br />
projects across the continent. But with<br />
every conversation, the opportunity to<br />
create positive social impact at scale just<br />
grew and grew. The result is Arete Arts, “a<br />
platform to amplify the voices and messages<br />
of contemporary African artists who are<br />
passionate about the environment and social<br />
justice. Profits support creative initiatives<br />
across Africa through a not-for-profit entity<br />
– the idea being that commercial profits fund<br />
the issuance of small grants of $5,000 to<br />
$20,000 to projects dedicated to advancing<br />
environmental and, in time, social causes.<br />
Registered as a limited company, the<br />
commercial arm, Arete Arts Community aims<br />
to raise money through events, private dinners<br />
and the sale of their inaugural publication,<br />
Afroprophetic: Art transforming minds and<br />
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GOODWILL<br />
TAKE A RIDE<br />
Motorcycle by<br />
Beninese artist<br />
Falhoun Ogoun<br />
nature, which features artists from across<br />
the continent, notably El Anatsui and Serge<br />
Attukwei Clottey (both from Ghana), Romuald<br />
Hazoumè (Benin), Abdoulaye Konaté (Mali),<br />
Wangechi Mutu (Kenya), Pascale Marthine<br />
Tayou and Barthélémy Toguo (both from<br />
Cameroon), as well as London-based Sir John<br />
Akomfrah RA, Sokari Douglas Camp CBE and<br />
Yinka Shonibare CBE RA.<br />
Arete Arts Community is also planning to<br />
offer bespoke travel experiences “to connect<br />
with African artists and art initiatives”.<br />
Any profits it generates will be donated to<br />
the Foundation, which is in the process of<br />
registering with the UK’s Charity Commission.<br />
Editor of Afroprophetic: Art transforming minds<br />
and nature, and Arete Arts Circle member,<br />
Sophie Braine, curated an inaugural exhibition<br />
for the benefit of Arete Arts Foundation at<br />
Christie’s in London, where Braine worked for<br />
10 years. Arete Arts funded the publication<br />
of the book and all profits from the sale will<br />
go to funding grassroots projects across the<br />
continent. “It’s too soon to tell what sort of<br />
sums it will raise but it is opening the door to<br />
conversations with like-minded people, who<br />
share our belief in the transformational power<br />
of the arts,” says Keladitis.<br />
What money they have raised to date has<br />
come mostly from art sales made at private<br />
events across the globe, including a dinner in<br />
Hong Kong, hosted by the collector Benjamin<br />
Sigg, nephew of the famed collector of Chinese<br />
art, Uli Sigg – from whose private collection<br />
more than 1,500 items are now on display at<br />
the M+ museum in Hong Kong.<br />
“Most of the dinners are funded by the<br />
people hosting them,” Keladitis explains, adding<br />
that the next ones will be held in the US and<br />
Kenya. “These are people who are passionate<br />
about wanting to buy art with a purpose. Like<br />
what we are seeing in the travel industry,<br />
people want to travel but also be educated<br />
and immerse themselves in a new culture. Art<br />
speaks to and from our deepest selves, artists<br />
are communicating a story about their view of<br />
the world. Collectors want to meet the artists;<br />
they want to understand their backgrounds.”<br />
There is a potential travel element to Arete’s<br />
offering. “We hosted an event at Chaminuka<br />
Lodge in Zambia,” she says, referring to Andrew<br />
and Danae Sardanis’s game lodge, which is also<br />
home to a substantial collection of African art,<br />
more than 1,000 pieces acquired over the past<br />
half-century that they display throughout the<br />
main house and 30 guest suites. “And we would<br />
love to host more events in Africa and are<br />
working with Le Palais de Lomé in the Togolese<br />
capital, an incredible project run by Sonia<br />
Lawson, a former management consultant and<br />
latterly curator of the Togolese stand at the<br />
Paris art fair Révélations biennale des métiers<br />
COURTESY THE ARTIST AND ARETE ARTS<br />
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“ passionate<br />
Arete Arts is a platform to amplify the voices<br />
and messages of contemporary African artists who are<br />
about the environment and social justice<br />
COURTESY THE ARTIST AND EVERARD READ GALLERY<br />
d’art et création, and another key member of<br />
the Arete Arts Community. “The Palais was<br />
the former German and French governor’s<br />
palace. It was derelict for 20 years when<br />
Sonia led the initiative to fund and refurbish<br />
it into a contemporary art museum set within<br />
11 hectares of natural biodiversity. It’s the<br />
first property of its type, a contemporary<br />
art museum devoted to biodiversity and<br />
raising awareness for the need to protect<br />
natural landscapes. They have a thousand<br />
schoolchildren come through the doors every<br />
week, to learn about art and about the natural<br />
habitat, to understand where their food comes<br />
from, and to discover new flora and fauna.”<br />
It’s an ambitious business model given<br />
the vicissitudes of the art world, but one<br />
cannot but applaud Arete’s ideals, not least<br />
in promising their artists “a minimum 70 per<br />
cent” cut of any sale. “So in that scenario<br />
we’re helping the artist too,” Keladitis adds.<br />
The key is growth, and they do know a lot of<br />
people: they have recruited an impressive<br />
community of supporters across Africa and<br />
beyond, among them the French-Nigerian<br />
opera singer Omo Bello (they’re as committed<br />
to the performing arts as to visual forms)<br />
and Tiphaine de Mombynes, Director of the<br />
Metis Fund for art and development, which is<br />
hosted by French development agency (AFD) to<br />
enrich dialogue and sustainable development<br />
impacts. And that is ultimately what Arete Arts<br />
hopes to do more of. “We could have formed<br />
a straightforward non-profit or found a niche<br />
within the collecting space,” Keladitis says, “but<br />
our mission is to weave those things together:<br />
to connect collectors and donors with those<br />
interested in social and environmental projects.<br />
And to use that money, and that awareness, to<br />
support grassroots initiatives.” aretearts.org<br />
AVIAN INSPIRED<br />
Proof by South African artist<br />
Colbert Mashile, courtesy of<br />
Everard Read Gallery<br />
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THE SMART GUIDE<br />
Our collection of the latest, the<br />
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developments in an Italian Eden<br />
TUSCAN TRIUMPHS<br />
A handful of new standout properties are bringing fresh<br />
life to the fabled Italian region // By Ivan Carvalho<br />
TUSCANY IS ADMITTEDLY a<br />
well-trodden region, with its<br />
travel offerings, gastronomy<br />
and cultural artifacts well<br />
ingrained in the minds<br />
of visitors. Yet amid the<br />
familiar columns of cypress<br />
trees and medieval stone<br />
towers punctuating the<br />
skyline in settlements from<br />
San Gimignano to Siena a<br />
new generation of wellheeled<br />
hotels has emerged<br />
for those eager to explore<br />
this privileged slice of the<br />
Bel Paese.<br />
Heading south from<br />
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STEFANO SCATÀ<br />
COUNTRY CULTURE<br />
Borgo Pignano’s grounds<br />
and one of its art<br />
studios; below: the redhued<br />
Casa Newton<br />
heritage includes an<br />
impressive marble staircase,<br />
neoclassical frescoes and<br />
tiled roofs. Guests choose<br />
from 22 rooms and suites<br />
boasting high ceilings and<br />
an uncluttered contemporary<br />
interior design with<br />
furnishings from Gervasoni.<br />
MARK BOLTON<br />
Surrounded by olive<br />
groves, the bucolic setting<br />
features alfresco dining<br />
and a rustic-meets-modern<br />
indoor space where chef<br />
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mouthwatering moments<br />
with classic fare from chianti<br />
wine stew and chickpea<br />
cakes to pappa al pomodoro<br />
and fennel seed salami<br />
paired with a glass of robust<br />
Brunello di Montalcino.<br />
Another newcomer,<br />
which opened its doors in<br />
September, is Casa Newton<br />
(casa-newton.com), nestled<br />
in the rolling hills and amber<br />
fields of grain of Val d’Orcia.<br />
The heart of the hotel is a<br />
three-floor country manor in<br />
a red-brick hue hosting nine<br />
bedrooms together with two<br />
panoramic suites carved out<br />
of a renovated farmhouse.<br />
The property produces its own<br />
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GREEN SCENE<br />
The estate of<br />
Il Borro<br />
and a straightforward red<br />
made from whole clusters of<br />
sangiovese that undergo a<br />
long maceration.<br />
For those keen to wet their<br />
feet and experience another<br />
side of Tuscany, where<br />
fragrant Mediterranean<br />
maquis abound and<br />
flamingos stroll gracefully<br />
across the water, a move<br />
west to the coastal town<br />
of Porto Ercole finds you<br />
unpacking your bags<br />
at La Roqqa (laroqqa.<br />
com), the latest high-end<br />
accommodation on the<br />
Monte Argentario peninsula.<br />
Opened this August, this<br />
seasonal addition is a<br />
design-led project of 55<br />
rooms, all with private<br />
balconies or terraces, that<br />
was envisioned by Milanbased<br />
architects Ludovica<br />
Serafini and Roberto<br />
Palomba. Centrally located in<br />
Porto Ercole, guests can take<br />
in the view from its rooftop<br />
restaurant while perusing its<br />
all-Tuscan wine list before<br />
retreating to rooms sporting<br />
a curated mix of custom<br />
furnishings and Italian design<br />
from the 1960s and 1970s.<br />
After a sojourn at<br />
one of these newest<br />
accommodations, the pull<br />
of nostalgia might send you<br />
seeking a hostelry with a<br />
few years under its belt. In<br />
that case, a move towards<br />
Arezzo is in order, to spend<br />
a few days in the patrician<br />
surroundings of Il Borro<br />
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ALESSANDRO MOGGI<br />
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Châteaux property centres<br />
on an agricultural estate,<br />
farmed organically, which is<br />
managed by the Ferragamo<br />
family and produces wine<br />
SUN TRAP<br />
A terrace at La Roqqa;<br />
below: Pieve Aldina<br />
and olive oil. It counts 38<br />
chic suites in a medieval<br />
hamlet as well as the more<br />
recently added Aie del Borro<br />
collection of 18 rooms and<br />
suites divided across a<br />
quartet of centuries-old<br />
farmhouses reached via a<br />
long avenue of holm oaks<br />
in a bucolic setting marked<br />
by mulberry trees, lavender<br />
bushes and wild roses.<br />
For vacations extending<br />
weeks rather than days,<br />
or where large families or<br />
groups are concerned, Il<br />
Borro provides an impressive<br />
selection of villas. The<br />
same can be said for Borgo<br />
Pignano (borgopignano.<br />
com), owned by Welsh-born<br />
entrepreneur Michael Moritz,<br />
which offers a half dozen<br />
well-manicured residences<br />
immersed in the hills of<br />
Volterra suitable for big<br />
gatherings and reunions.<br />
Naturally, the pride of<br />
place at Moritz’s 300ha<br />
hotel is its stately 18thcentury<br />
villa flanked by<br />
a traditionally planted<br />
English garden. With its<br />
14 regal rooms and suites,<br />
all adorned with en-suite<br />
marble and travertine<br />
bathrooms, the villa is the<br />
centrepiece of a hospitality<br />
project that includes its<br />
own farm, where chefs from<br />
the property are able to<br />
source an extensive range<br />
of foodstuffs from cereals<br />
and honey to herbs and the<br />
organic flour used to make<br />
pizza in the hotel’s woodburning<br />
ovens. It’s a fitting<br />
farm-to-table capstone in<br />
a region that has long been<br />
known for its exceptional<br />
produce and even more<br />
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THE SMART GUIDE<br />
A GRAND COLLECTION<br />
The latest tantalising elixirs to raise the spirits<br />
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5 6<br />
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1 BENROMACH CONTRASTS KILN DRIED OAK The Speyside distillery’s Contrasts range offers variations on the smoky Benromach style by<br />
maturing the spirit in different ways. The limited-edition release matured in kiln-dried virgin oak barrels makes for a sweeter, more malted<br />
biscuit nose. benromach.com // 2 BLADNOCH THE SAMHLA COLLECTION Three very special – and very limited – whiskies from the Lowlands<br />
form this selection of Bladnoch’s finest: The McClelland, distilled in 1966 (limited to 15 bottles, pictured); The Prior (1990, 50 bottles);<br />
and The Sage (2008, 100 bottles). bladnoch.com // 3 BOWMORE ASTON MARTIN Two centres of excellence collide as master blender of<br />
Bowmore Ron Welsh creates a unique whisky in tandem with chief creative officer of Aston Martin Marek Reichman and his team. The result<br />
is a symphony of flavours. bowmore.com // 4 LITTLEMILL THE VANGUARDS COLLECTION – CHAPTER ONE Dedicated to Robert Muir, who<br />
was granted the first ever licence by the government of King George III to “retail ale, beer and other excisable liquors” at Littlemill In 1773,<br />
this first in a four-part collection has a long finish of citrus and caramelizsed sugar flavours. littlemilldistillery.com // 5 GLEN SCOTIA 48<br />
YEAR OLD Also marking the past, this limited edition celebrates Campbeltown’s international trade links when it was known as the Victorian<br />
whisky capital of the world. The result is a whisky aged in bourbon barrels before maturing in two types of sherry casks – and a very special,<br />
complex taste. glenscotia.com // 6 TORABHAIG ALLT GLEANN BATCH STRENGTH This young Skye distillery brings an end to the first stage<br />
of its development with this release, which draws on the heavily peated grains of the area and tames them into an elegantly rugged dram.<br />
torabhaig.com // 7 JOHNNIE WALKER BLUE LABEL ELUSIVE UMAMI The enigmatic “fifth” flavour is the inspiration for this new whisky<br />
from the legendary brand, a remarkable collaboration between master blender Emma Walker and world-renowned chef Kei Kobayashi.<br />
johnniewalker.com // 8 LADYBURN EDITION THREE Operating for only nine years between 1966 and 1975, Ladyburn still helped define an era<br />
of whisky and style. This combines in the 210 hand-numbered bottles of this release, each featuring one of 11 iconic images from designer<br />
David Hicks (including Dressed for Dinner, pictured). williamgrant.com // 9 THE MACALLAN THE HARMONY COLLECTION AMBER MEADOW<br />
The third installment in a selection that celebrates the distillery’s deep connection with the land. Sisters Mary and Stella McCartney’s<br />
memories of their family home in the Scottish countryside inspire this citrus-flavoured release. themacallan.com // 10 THE GLENDRONACH<br />
GRAND<strong>EU</strong>R <strong>2023</strong> The annual release in the series dating back to 2010 was matured for almost three decades in Oloroso sherry casks. Each<br />
bottle of this limited edition is sealed by wax and numbered by hand. glendronachdistillery.com // 11 CASAMIGOS CRISTALINO Crisp and<br />
clean with an aroma of cocoa and caramel, the latest tequila from Casamigos takes an unusual twist on this most fashionable version of<br />
the spirit. Rather than being añejo-based, this cristalino is derived from Casamigos Reposado Tequila. casamigos.com // 12 COURVOISIER<br />
MIZUNARA <strong>2023</strong> The second iteration of this Franco-Japanese cognac (as Courvoisier’s master blender teams up with the House of Suntory<br />
chief blender Shinji Fukuyo) is a wonderful combination of jasmine and cherry blossom overlayed on the traditional rich fruit flavour.<br />
courvoisier.com // 13 TOMATIN PX CASK Beautifully aged in a Pedro Ximenez sherry butt, distilled in 2001 and bottled last year, this single<br />
malt has initial aromas of maple syrup and rum-soaked sultanas, transitioning into bitter aromas. tomatin.com<br />
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THE SMART GUIDE<br />
© GARAGE ITALIA<br />
A Return to<br />
the Good Life<br />
Synonymous with la dolce vita, the Fiat<br />
500 was a design icon of the last century<br />
– and is again now thanks to Garage Italia<br />
Customs, a leading light in the restomod<br />
industry. The Fiat 500 Spiaggina is a fully<br />
electric version of the classic car, which is<br />
rechargeable in just a few hours and from<br />
any domestic socket. Showing an awareness<br />
of the past, Garage Italia has teamed up<br />
with Bonacina, who were responsible for<br />
the original interior of the car. Then as<br />
now, rattan core seats are a key feature,<br />
though for the latest iteration multiple<br />
colour options are available to match or<br />
complement the vehicle’s exterior.<br />
garage-italia.com<br />
JASON BAX<br />
Back to Basics<br />
For its latest Land Cruiser, Toyota has taken a step back with some retro touches<br />
– and a return to the North American market. Stylistically, a 1958 trim with vintageinspired<br />
round LED headlamps and a Toyota heritage grille are distinctive, but this<br />
is a modern beast packed with Toyota’s latest technology. The Safety Sense 3.0 system,<br />
in particular, adds an extra layer of security to the driving experience. toyota.com<br />
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THE SMART GUIDE<br />
On the Waterfront<br />
The road meets the sea in this collaboration between motoring marque Porsche and Frauscher,<br />
the Austrian shipyard. Using technology developed for Porsche’s all-electric Macan, the duo has<br />
come up with the 850 Fantom Air. Built to the usual high quality, luxury standards of Frauscher,<br />
it also incorporates the carmaker’s pre-programmed driving modes from Docking to Sport Plus,<br />
and has a top speed of 85km/h. frauscherxporsche.com<br />
Material World<br />
Scent of the Season<br />
The US luggage manufacturer Tumi has raised the<br />
bar with a new high-performance material for its<br />
latest range of cases and bags. The new Alpha<br />
X luggage collection is made from PX6, its most<br />
abrasion-resistant fabric yet, and is exclusive to<br />
Tumi. The collection includes the international<br />
dual-access carry-on (below). tumi.com<br />
A beacon of Italian style and luxe, Acqua di Parma<br />
is always ahead of the curve when it comes to<br />
enlivening the senses – as its new range for<br />
Christmas proves. A collection of candles and<br />
diffusers that prompt thoughts of the wonders<br />
of winter with three themes: Bosco, redolent<br />
of the clean air of the mountains; Neve Fresca<br />
(diffuser, above left), which brings to mind a crisp<br />
winter morning; and Portafortuna (candle, above<br />
right), a gateway to luck and dreams coming true.<br />
acquadiparma.com<br />
ALL IMAGES COURTESY THE COMPANIES<br />
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THE SMART GUIDE<br />
Delicate Beauty<br />
Artist Rolf Sachs has an<br />
endless fascination with<br />
imperfection, which he explores<br />
in his collaboration with porcelain<br />
manufacturer Nymphenburg.<br />
The result is a collection of<br />
limited-edition candlesticks titled<br />
Berührung (German for “touch”).<br />
With Sachs’s emotional approach<br />
to moulding the pure white bisque<br />
porcelain, one-off pieces are<br />
formed in various shapes and<br />
sizes. “I have a love of flaws,”<br />
he says. “By nature, humans are<br />
not perfect and if we are, we are<br />
probably boring.” nymphenburg.com<br />
The Right Notes<br />
Having launched in the US last year,<br />
Steinway & Sons has brought its latest<br />
flagship model to Europe. The Gran Nichetto<br />
Model B Steinway is a collaboration with<br />
Italian designer Luca Nichetto. Born in<br />
Venice, Nichetto originally conceived the<br />
piano as a homage to his home city – the<br />
smoothness and dynamism of gondola a<br />
particular influence on the contours of the<br />
instrument. Steinway’s latest technological<br />
advancements, which allow for live<br />
performance capture and playback, also<br />
play a key feature in this remarkable piano.<br />
steinway.com<br />
© STEINWAY & SONS<br />
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THE SMART GUIDE<br />
WALL OF SOUND<br />
Audio equipment to switch on to<br />
Cool Option<br />
Individual Touch<br />
Promising a personal experience like<br />
never before, Denon’s latest earbuds are a<br />
game changer. Denon PerL (Personalized<br />
Listening) and PerL Pro use parent company<br />
Masimo’s Adaptive Acoustic Technology to<br />
produce a personal hearing profile for every<br />
user, meaning an individual experience<br />
tuned perfectly to each listener’s own<br />
hearing. The buds also offer active noise<br />
cancellation and a social mode, which<br />
allows you to dictate just how much you<br />
tune in and drop out. denon.com<br />
If you want glacier chic, the limitededition<br />
ice-blue versions of Audio<br />
Technica’s ATH-M50xIB and wireless<br />
ATH-M50xBT2IB might fit the bill. As<br />
the headphones of choice of many top<br />
audio engineers the ATH-M50xIB is<br />
known for its large-aperture drivers,<br />
sound-isolating earcups and robust<br />
construction. The wireless version is<br />
perhaps more suitable for the more<br />
casual listener, with its exceptional<br />
clarity and 50 hours of playtime on a<br />
single charge. audio-technica.com<br />
The Power of Red<br />
In many ways, it seems an odd collaboration.<br />
Audio pioneers Bang & Olufsen’s range of topclass<br />
speakers are generally designed to blend<br />
into people’s homes, visually neutral, while<br />
providing the ultimate aural experience. Ferrari<br />
aims to grab as much attention as possible, on<br />
the track and on the road. Yet there is much that<br />
unites them, from visionary founders to a passion<br />
for poise, power and precision. And the result?<br />
A reimagining of a series of the Danish brand’s<br />
headphones and speakers in the striking red of<br />
Ferrari. bang-olufsen.com<br />
ALL IMAGES COURTESY THE COMPANIES<br />
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Take it for a Spin<br />
The re-rise of vinyl continues apace, with the format outselling CDs<br />
for the first time in 30 years in 2022. And the response of top audio<br />
firms is to produce better and better turntables. The DP-3000NE<br />
from Denon is one of the latest and the finest. The craftmanship<br />
is exquisite – a dark ebony veneer over a sturdy wood cabinet –<br />
combined with the highest quality components to produce a crystalclear<br />
sound. denon.com<br />
Setting the Tone<br />
Designed<br />
to Shine<br />
The fusion of a sphere<br />
and a cylinder into one<br />
solid aluminium piece,<br />
the Beolab 8, the latest<br />
in Bang & Olufsen’s<br />
high-end speaker series,<br />
is visually distinct.<br />
The flexible speaker<br />
is as easily used as<br />
standalone equipment<br />
or part of larger sound<br />
system, guaranteed to<br />
produce a powerful,<br />
immersive sound.<br />
bang-olufsen.com<br />
The latest addition to Kef’s LSX II Wireless range is a new<br />
iteration in olive green. The creation of renowned industrial<br />
designer Michael Young, the range has garnered praise for the<br />
minimal design and inobtrusive way the speakers fit beautifully<br />
into the home, while providing a high-quality sound system. The<br />
olive green speakers join other shades such as cobalt blue and<br />
lava red in Kef’s collection. kef.com<br />
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NOTES FROM NETJETS<br />
Latest happenings, onboard updates, and profiles<br />
THE FAST TRACK<br />
Renowned motor racing team United Autosports’ partnership with<br />
<strong>NetJets</strong> for the World Endurance Championship is built to last<br />
JAKOB EBREY JEP<br />
ANDREW LOFTHOUSE<br />
TEAM GLORY Victory in<br />
Portimão’s LMP2 race; on<br />
the track in Le Mans<br />
FORMED IN 2009, by<br />
McLaren CEO Zak Brown and<br />
former racing driver Richard<br />
Dean, United Autosports has<br />
become one of the fastestgrowing<br />
motorsports teams<br />
in the UK, competing across<br />
a number of different racing<br />
categories around the globe.<br />
Among the drivers who have<br />
featured for the Yorkshirebased<br />
team are Fernando<br />
Alonso, Lando Norris and<br />
Juan Pablo Montoya – and<br />
the talent keeps on coming.<br />
As do the accolades, such as<br />
winning the 2020 FIA World<br />
Endurance Championship and<br />
the Le Mans 24 Hours (also in<br />
2020), among them.<br />
This level of sustained<br />
success is one of the<br />
reasons <strong>NetJets</strong> became the<br />
official airline partner for<br />
United Autosports for the<br />
<strong>2023</strong> FIA World Endurance<br />
Championship (WEC)<br />
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NOTES FROM NETJETS<br />
“<br />
Phil<br />
support one of the fastestgrowing<br />
teams in motorsport<br />
with flight services that will<br />
allow them to maximise their<br />
time competing globally<br />
heading into the World<br />
Endurance Championship and<br />
beyond,” says Myra Perez,<br />
executive director sales and<br />
service for <strong>NetJets</strong> Europe.<br />
The FIA World Endurance Championship is the pinnacle<br />
of endurance racing – the pinnacle of my discipline in<br />
racing – and it really is a global spectacle<br />
Hanson, United Autosports driver<br />
The WEC is a perfect<br />
opportunity to offer<br />
<strong>NetJets</strong>’ support to<br />
the United Autosports<br />
ambitions. It is a series of<br />
seven races ranging from<br />
the 1,000 Miles of Sebring,<br />
Florida, to the eight hours<br />
of Bahrain in November<br />
(via the world-renowned 24<br />
hours of Le Mans, as well as<br />
Portimão in Portugal, Spa in<br />
Belgium, Monza in Italy and<br />
Fuji in Japan). It is a test of<br />
the stamina of drivers and<br />
endurance and technical<br />
abilities of the car on a global<br />
stage. It is the ultimate<br />
challenge for the United<br />
Autosports team and one<br />
they are doing well to live up<br />
to at the moment.<br />
As Phil Hanson, a fullseason<br />
driver in the #22<br />
United Autosports LMP2<br />
car says: “The FIA World<br />
Endurance Championship is<br />
the pinnacle of endurance<br />
racing – the pinnacle of my<br />
discipline in racing – and it<br />
really is a global spectacle.<br />
You visit countless circuits<br />
across three continents –<br />
next year, four continents –<br />
travelling to some incredible<br />
places, including Japan –<br />
where we’ve just come back<br />
from with a podium result.<br />
I flew into Tokyo, which is<br />
one of my favourite cities.<br />
Quite often, I don’t get the<br />
chance to explore the culture<br />
and cities themselves, I’m<br />
much more familiar with<br />
the airports and hotels by<br />
the tracks! But when we’re<br />
flying further afield, I try to<br />
make a trip of it. Next year<br />
the championship will go<br />
to Brazil for the first time.<br />
It’s great to be part of a<br />
championship that puts on<br />
a show in all regions of the<br />
world.” unitedautosports.com<br />
RACING HARD<br />
Clockwise from top:<br />
competing in Monza;<br />
and Portimão;<br />
driver Phil Hanson<br />
JAKOB EBREY JEP (3)<br />
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JULIAN RENTZSCH<br />
NETJETS BY THE NUMBERS<br />
PRESENTING<br />
THE EMBRAER<br />
PRAETOR 500<br />
INSIDE TRACK<br />
LUIS DE ALMEIDA<br />
Cabin Crew Program Manager<br />
YOUR ROLE AT NETJETS IS ... to oversee the Cabin Crew<br />
program, namely the Communication Strategy with crews, Crew<br />
Engagement to ensure that our colleagues are aligned with<br />
our company brand and values, to ensure that our Cabin Crew<br />
colleagues are aligned with the best practices and highest<br />
standards in Safety, Service and Training in the industry and,<br />
finally, to assist developing products and procedures to ensure<br />
our <strong>NetJets</strong> Signature flying experience is second to none.<br />
<strong>NetJets</strong> is expanding our midsize fleet – and your<br />
access to seamless, on-demand travel – with the<br />
addition of the extraordinary Embraer Praetor ® 500.<br />
Offering both best-in-class range and cabin altitude,<br />
the Praetor 500 enables you to fly in comfort to<br />
more destinations and arrive feeling refreshed.<br />
© NETJETS<br />
YOUR NORMAL DAY CONSISTS OF ... well, it depends<br />
on different factors! If I’m in the Lisbon office, then it’s a<br />
day with meetings, where I can discuss current procedures<br />
with the Leadership team, Managers and stakeholders, while<br />
benchmarking and seeking opportunities to improve our<br />
operational efficiency and product delivery. When I’m not<br />
in the office, I have the opportunity to spend time engaging<br />
with our crew colleagues and ground staff in certain hightraffic<br />
European FBOs, while also flying onboard our aircrafts<br />
to collect crew feedback to then refine and develop specific<br />
strategies for the crew and our operation.<br />
THE BEST THING ABOUT YOUR JOB IS to be able to<br />
make a difference! The fact that I’m constantly receiving<br />
feedback, while having the opportunity to speak with so<br />
many colleagues allows me to actively participate in laying<br />
foundations and to define strategies into the future, which is<br />
professionally and personally quite rewarding.<br />
THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE YOU FACE IN YOUR ROLE<br />
IS to be able to speak with colleagues from completely<br />
different areas and mindsets and to bring those views<br />
together to pave the way forward. In reality, it’s a challenge<br />
that I really appreciate.<br />
THE MOST UNUSUAL THING TO HAPPEN WHILE AT<br />
NETJETS WAS … a world tour in seven days. A full tour<br />
around the globe was a truly remarkable experience, from<br />
hot to freezing weather, while crossing numerous time zones<br />
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NOTES FROM NETJETS<br />
BEFORE JOINING THE NETJETS TEAM, I<br />
… had an amazing opportunity to fly fighter<br />
jets for the German Air Force in my home<br />
country, and be an instructor on them in the<br />
US. I was even able to fly the legendary RF-4<br />
Phantom in my early days of being a pilot.<br />
THE ONE DAY AT NETJETS I WON’T<br />
FORGET IS … one of many! There are<br />
countless days at <strong>NetJets</strong> which I’ll never<br />
forget; however, if I really had to pick one day,<br />
then this one would rank highest: last year I<br />
got to take my parents-in-law for a <strong>NetJets</strong><br />
flight. At the time they were in a fragile state<br />
of health, at the ages of 91, and 84 (there<br />
was also my brother-in-law, who has limited<br />
mobility). It was literally the last flight in their<br />
lives. It is a very touching moment in my own<br />
life when I look back at their cheerful faces.<br />
JULIAN RENTZSCH<br />
IN SERVICE<br />
ANDREAS “LUKAS” KRACH<br />
Captain, Citation XLS<br />
MY FIRST EXPOSURE TO AVIATION WAS<br />
… listening to the stories my dad told me of<br />
when he first became a pilot, flying gliders<br />
that were “bungee” launched off the sand<br />
dunes on the Baltic coast. Later, as a sevenyear-old<br />
boy, my grandpa and I would stand<br />
up on the visitors’ terrace of Düsseldorf<br />
Airport watching the planes take off. Even<br />
now, half a century later, I still remember this<br />
touching moment on each occasion I land in<br />
Düsseldorf.<br />
THE BEST PART OF FLYING IS …<br />
everything (I tend to say). But after flying for<br />
over 40 years, it has become very clear to me,<br />
the very best part of aviation by far is the<br />
great people we meet and the social factor.<br />
I most enjoy working together with all our<br />
colleagues from various backgrounds, sharing<br />
their abundance of experience, as well as<br />
working with a great team in the office, and<br />
then meeting all our exceptional Owners,<br />
whose individual lives are most interesting<br />
and inspiring.<br />
ONE THING OWNERS PROBABLY<br />
WOULDN’T GUESS ABOUT ME IS … that<br />
I enjoy doing a bit of artwork on the side.<br />
Besides designing and producing aircraft<br />
paint jobs, I try to catch our Owners’ special<br />
occasions, on the day of the flight, and come<br />
up with an original-drawing greeting card for<br />
them – if I get a chance.<br />
ON MY DAYS OFF … I drive my family crazy<br />
by being sort of hyperactive, doing a variety<br />
of things in the great outdoors – in the<br />
mountains and on the water.<br />
WITHIN THE NEXT YEAR, I WOULD LIKE<br />
TO … change the aircraft type from the one I<br />
have been on for the past 15 years at <strong>NetJets</strong><br />
to the latest type, so I have the opportunity<br />
to work with another group of the finest<br />
aviators you can find.<br />
WITHIN THE NEXT 10 YEARS, I WOULD<br />
LIKE TO … utilise our pre-retirement, parttime<br />
scheme, to make more use of the unique<br />
<strong>NetJets</strong> Gateway system (being able to work<br />
and travel from different gateways within<br />
Europe) and also use the ad hoc staff travel<br />
option on our fleets.<br />
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CREW MEMBER … comes each time I<br />
mention that I have worked for <strong>NetJets</strong> for 18<br />
years, and seeing the reaction of respect in<br />
people’s faces, either by other aircrews from<br />
a different company, but especially from our<br />
<strong>NetJets</strong> Owners.<br />
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LIVING WELL<br />
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STAYING<br />
IN SYNC<br />
Dr Greg Vanichkachorn, of Mayo Clinic’s Aerospace Medicine<br />
team, on the perils of jet lag and how to to deal with them<br />
JÖRN KASPUHL<br />
JET LAG IS a common complaint among those who travel long<br />
distances and can sometimes be so disruptive that a longawaited<br />
trip is practically ruined. Are there ways to combat<br />
or even beat jet lag? Dr Greg Vanichkachorn of Mayo Clinic’s<br />
Aerospace Medicine team offers advice on minimising the<br />
disruption of jet lag.<br />
“Jet lag isn’t just being tired after travel,” Dr Vanichkachorn<br />
says. “Here at Mayo Clinic, we call it jet lag disorder. It’s a<br />
state where your body’s internal clock isn’t in sync with the<br />
external environment.”<br />
Dr Vanichkachorn explains that, while symptoms of jet<br />
lag usually include fatigue, that’s not the only problem it<br />
can cause. Gastrointestinal issues, confusion, changes in<br />
cognitive levels, depression and anxiety can all be the result<br />
of jet lag disorder.<br />
“All jet lag isn’t equal,” Dr Vanichkachorn says. “It can be<br />
impacted by the direction of travel, how many time zones<br />
you’re crossing. It’s usually harder on your body when you’re<br />
traveling east because you’re losing time.”<br />
Dr Vanichkachorn estimates that it takes about a day per<br />
time zone you have crossed to adjust to the time at your<br />
new location.<br />
But what if you just don’t have the time to waste on several<br />
days of malaise due to jet lag? What if you need to be on top of<br />
your game for a presentation to a major client, or you’re taking<br />
your family on the trip of a lifetime? Can travel via <strong>NetJets</strong><br />
help with jet lag?<br />
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“<br />
you’re<br />
All jet lag isn’t equal. It can be<br />
impacted by the direction<br />
of travel, how many time zones<br />
crossing<br />
JULIAN RENTZSCH<br />
Dr Greg Vanichkachorn is part of the Aerospace Medicine programme<br />
at Mayo Clinic. He and his team can provide specialty consultations to<br />
<strong>NetJets</strong> Owners as part of Mayo Clinic’s Executive Health programme.<br />
Dr Vanichkachorn thinks so, admitting, “Spending a long<br />
time in a commercial aircraft isn’t really the greatest thing<br />
in the world.”<br />
More than the discomfort, he says, the atmosphere inside<br />
the cabin can be unhealthy for some people.<br />
“The air isn’t pressurised to sea level, so it’s like sitting on<br />
a mountain at 2,500m. This can be problematic for those with<br />
underlying lung disease or breathing issues.” He also says the<br />
atmosphere in some aircraft cabins can be dry due to altitude<br />
and could lead to dehydration when flying long distances.<br />
Private air travel usually includes pressurising cabins to<br />
a lower altitude than commercial aircraft, decreasing the<br />
effects of fatigue and dehydration. The flexibility of flying<br />
by private jet means you can choose exactly when you take<br />
off and where from, offering more travel planning options to<br />
lessen symptoms of jet lag. Plus, private air travel is more<br />
comfortable due to more space and less noise within the<br />
cabin than a commercial flight, making it easier to rest while<br />
traveling and, depending on the time difference, helping<br />
to minimise effects of jet lag. Another perk of private jet<br />
travel, according to Dr. Vanichkachorn, is the ability to better<br />
regulate light and temperature, adding to your comfort and<br />
allowing for better strategic light exposure.<br />
While flying privately with <strong>NetJets</strong> can be helpful for<br />
lessening the effects of jet lag disorder, Dr Vanichkachorn has<br />
a few other tips to banish jet lag from your travel experience.<br />
- Use light exposure strategically. Being exposed to sunlight<br />
helps reset your internal clock, and it’s the most powerful<br />
natural tool for regulating the sleep-wake cycle. Morning<br />
light exposure can usually help you adjust to an earlier<br />
time zone after travelling east. Evening light helps you<br />
adapt to a later time zone after traveling west. This helps<br />
with circadian rhythm and melatonin production, both of<br />
which help to get on a day/night schedule. Sunglasses can<br />
help with blocking light when you’re trying to reset your<br />
internal clock.<br />
- Use melatonin to initiate a new sleep cycle but do so<br />
sparingly. Dr Vanichkachorn says most people need only<br />
3-5mg.<br />
- Start your adjustment process a few days before travelling.<br />
Dr. Vanichkachorn says there are several apps available that<br />
can help preemptively shift circadian rhythms.<br />
- Take care of yourself on your way to your destination.<br />
Drink plenty of water, even in the days before your flight,<br />
to avoid dehydration.<br />
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GONE<br />
FISHING<br />
The world’s best spots for angling offer just<br />
the right combination of fertile waters and<br />
creature comforts // By Larry Olmsted<br />
ISTOCK<br />
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EDWARD C. ROBISON III<br />
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OUTDOOR PURSUITS<br />
LAND AND SEA<br />
Clockwise from top:<br />
Casa de Campo,<br />
Dominican Republic; Big<br />
Cedar Lodge, Missouri;<br />
Ashford Castle; Ireland<br />
“If you’re too busy to fish, you’re too busy,”<br />
says Johnny Morris, billionaire founder of the<br />
Bass Pro Shops retail fishing empire. Morris<br />
was repeating an old sportsman’s adage, but<br />
he knows what he is talking about firsthand. In<br />
addition to running the two biggest retailers<br />
in this field, Bass Pro and Cabela’s, as CFO –<br />
Chief Fishing Officer – he has personally set<br />
fishing records for multiple species, all around<br />
the world. He talks at length about the natural<br />
beauty of the settings, the bonding, the honing<br />
of skills, the heart-pounding excitement of<br />
© ASHFORD CASTLE<br />
hooking a big one and the fun you still have<br />
even when they are not biting. Most of all, he<br />
understands why thousands of his customers<br />
choose the same bumper sticker: “I’d Rather<br />
Be Fishing”.<br />
If you’d rather be fishing, the hardest part<br />
might be choosing which great place to go,<br />
because there are world-class lodges and<br />
resorts for every style of angler in every corner<br />
of the globe. Here are some of the very best.<br />
Ernest Hemingway’s Old Man and the<br />
Sea protagonist hooked a giant marlin, the<br />
largest of the billfish: marlin, spearfish,<br />
sailfish, and swordfish. Billfish remain the<br />
Holy Grail of deep sea sportfishing, and<br />
there may be no better place to complete<br />
the Billfish Grand Slam – three of the four in<br />
one day – than at Panama’s legendary Tropic<br />
Star Lodge (tropicstar.com). Sitting on the<br />
remote coast of the pristine Darien Jungle,<br />
more International Game Fishing Association<br />
(IGFA) records have been set here than at any<br />
other resort on Earth, 300-plus. Blue marlin<br />
of up to 350kg are regular occurrences.<br />
They also have tons of massive dorado and<br />
enormous schools of yellowfin tuna that can<br />
top 130kg. All billfish are catch and release,<br />
and like most top fishing lodges, packages<br />
are all-inclusive with daily fishing, gear,<br />
guides, lodging and all meals.<br />
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“ the<br />
After billfish, salmon are probably the quarry more<br />
anglers make bucket-list trips for than any others, and<br />
king salmon is practically synonymous with Alaska<br />
CATCH OF THE DAY<br />
From top: Bair’s Lodge, the<br />
Bahamas; Steamboat Bay<br />
Fishing Club, Alaska; Hawks<br />
Cay Resort, Florida<br />
The only reason to go to Tropic Star is to<br />
hook monsters, but it’s quite the opposite story<br />
at Casa de Campo (casadecampo.com.do) in the<br />
Dominican Republic. This luxury mega-resort<br />
is so famous for its golf, tennis, shooting,<br />
polo and other facilities that the fishing often<br />
gets overlooked. But it is home to the most<br />
advanced marina in the Caribbean, full of firstrate<br />
charter boats with excellent deep-sea<br />
fishing, and hosts one of the most important<br />
blue marlin tournaments in the world. While<br />
best known for these, guests also regularly<br />
catch other billfish, mahi mahi, wahoo, and<br />
especially big tuna, close to 225kg. The golf<br />
is ranked at the top of many lists charting<br />
Mexico and the Caribbean, and this year Casa<br />
de Campo opened The Premier Club, a new<br />
luxury boutique hotel and spa, now its highest<br />
accommodation tier. A more far-flung take on<br />
the iconic luxury hotel model can be found at<br />
Reid’s Palace, A Belmond Hotel (belmond.com)<br />
on Madeira. This remote Portuguese island<br />
well off the coast of Morocco was the last<br />
restocking point for sailors headed to the New<br />
World, and it remains the first feeding ground<br />
in thousands of miles for giant fish headed<br />
the other way. Its remoteness and deep water<br />
make it a haven for world record blue marlin,<br />
as well as a litany of other great targets: white<br />
marlin, swordfish, spearfish, bluefin tuna,<br />
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© HAWKS CAY RESORT<br />
© STEAMBOAT BAY<br />
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WATER WORKS<br />
Clockwise from top:<br />
Hawks Cay Resort;<br />
Rifflin’ Hitch Lodge,<br />
Canada; Big Cedar Lodge<br />
Facing page:<br />
Steamboat Bay<br />
Fishing Club<br />
bigeye tuna, albacore, wahoo, red snappers,<br />
barracuda and more. After fishing, enjoy<br />
the island’s namesake fortified wines and<br />
exquisite cuisine. The historic luxury hotel sits<br />
on the same harbour in Funchal as the charter<br />
sportfishing fleet.<br />
After billfish, salmon are probably the<br />
quarry more anglers make bucket-list trips<br />
for than any others, and the biggest, the king<br />
salmon (also known as chinook), is practically<br />
synonymous with Alaska. For this reason,<br />
despite a short summer season, Alaska is<br />
full of destination salmon lodges, none<br />
swankier than Steamboat Bay Fishing Club<br />
(steamboatbay.com). It’s operated like a toptier<br />
African safari lodge, with a private boat<br />
and captain for each of the ten lodge rooms<br />
or the eight-person residence, and all meals,<br />
wines, top-shelf drinks, fish processing to take<br />
home, and seaplane transfers from Ketchikan<br />
are included. Cabin cruisers are custom made<br />
for the region, with full bathrooms, heated<br />
cabins, and stable rides with shock absorber<br />
seats. It’s hard not to catch your king salmon<br />
daily limits here, along with big halibut, cod,<br />
rockfish and silver (coho) salmon.<br />
In Alaska, Pacific salmon are commonly<br />
caught in deep water with conventional<br />
saltwater tackle, but Atlantic salmon are<br />
also one the biggest prizes for avid flyfishing<br />
junkies, and for that it is hard to beat<br />
remote and luxurious Rifflin’ Hitch Lodge<br />
(rifflinhitchlodge.com) on the famed Eagle<br />
River in Canada’s Labrador. There are no roads<br />
here, and guests arrive in Goose Bay and are<br />
flown in by the Lodge’s A-Star 350 helicopters<br />
or Cessna Grand Caravans. Guests are also<br />
flown daily to angling hot spots, including<br />
Rifflin’s satellite day lodge in a National Park<br />
Preserve to fish for jumbo trout. The main<br />
event is trophy-sized Atlantic salmon, but<br />
anglers also land huge brook trout and Arctic<br />
char. All fishing is catch and release, but the<br />
food is gourmet and there is no shortage of<br />
the local specialties, along with fine wines.<br />
There are just seven suites and a ratio of one<br />
guide for every two guests, much better than<br />
industry standards.<br />
Iceland is world famous for its fly-fishing<br />
because of some unique policies. While it has<br />
many pristine lakes and some of the best sea<br />
trout, char, and salmon streams in the world,<br />
all fishing rights are privately owned and<br />
mostly leased to outfitters. This means fishing<br />
is severely limited on all the best waters,<br />
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“ much<br />
No place has as many luxury resorts on sporting estates<br />
as Britain and Ireland, but few are as opulent – or as<br />
fun – as the Emerald Isle’s Ashford Castle<br />
MATTIA AQUILA<br />
keeping quantity and quality of fish high.<br />
The only Orvis Endorsed company in Iceland<br />
is is the fly-fishing outfitter Fish Partner<br />
(fishpartner.com) whose guests get access<br />
to the Kaldakvísl and Tungnaá rivers and<br />
Lake Thingvallavatn. All-inclusive itineraries<br />
typically stay in two different locations on<br />
each trip to maximise angling variety, with a<br />
guest-to-guide ratio of 2:1.<br />
If you are looking to try fly-fishing for the<br />
first time, a remote lodge immersion might<br />
not be the best choice. No place has as many<br />
luxury resorts on sporting estates as Britain<br />
and Ireland, but few are as opulent – or as<br />
much fun – as the Emerald Isle’s Ashford<br />
Castle (ashfordcastle.com). The luxe resort<br />
features an almost 800-year-old castle that<br />
sits on 18,000ha Lough Corrib, known for its<br />
abundance of brown trout, salmon and pike.<br />
The property also has immediate access to<br />
the River Cong, world famous for salmon.<br />
Ashford employs its own full-time expert<br />
ghillies (guides) using traditional wooden<br />
boats. Instruction is offered, they’ll cook<br />
your catch, and it’s a great place for experts,<br />
novices, or families to fish. Ashford also has<br />
world-class golf, an equestrian centre, tennis,<br />
shooting, even falconry, along with a laundry<br />
list of bars and restaurants.<br />
SEA VIEW<br />
Fom top: Reid’s Palace;<br />
Madeira; fishing off the<br />
coast of Caso de Campo<br />
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FLY FOR FISHING<br />
Clockwise from top left:<br />
Lizard Island, Australia;<br />
Turtle Island, Fiji; Futa<br />
Lodge, Chile<br />
Bass are much smaller than billfish and even<br />
salmon, but no form of angling is more popular<br />
in the United States than bass fishing, which<br />
has its own professional tour. The pros have<br />
an annual stop on 17,000ha Table Rock Lake<br />
in the Missouri Ozarks, also home to Johnny<br />
Morris’s Big Cedar Lodge (bigcedar.com). From<br />
George H W Bush to Tiger Woods, presidents,<br />
pro athletes and music A-listers have all<br />
fished here, and there is no better equipped<br />
freshwater angling resort anywhere. It has<br />
two full-service, state-of-the-art marinas<br />
with top-shelf gear, boat rentals, licenses and<br />
instruction, and lodging runs the gamut from<br />
hotel rooms to lakeside cabins to luxe private<br />
homes. The 1,800ha fantasy sporting resort<br />
also has five golf courses and a world-class<br />
shooting facility.<br />
While salmon, tuna and billfish can be found<br />
worldwide, there are a couple of much sought<br />
after but geographically limited specialty<br />
fish that serious anglers lust after. Pound for<br />
pound, many deep-sea sportfishers consider<br />
tarpon the most exciting quarry. The “silver<br />
king” of gamefish, they can dive more than a<br />
hundred feet in seconds, weigh up to 130kg,<br />
and are ferocious fighters that can take hours<br />
to reel in. Florida is tarpon central, and the<br />
top choice is Hawks Cay Resort (hawkscay.<br />
com) in the Florida Keys, an old fishing haunt<br />
of Hemingway himself. Guests land world<br />
record tarpon as well as billfish, barracuda<br />
and a little bit of everything.<br />
For zealous fly-fishing aficionados, the<br />
extremely challenging bonefish, found in<br />
shallow saltwater, is another much-catch.<br />
The Bahamas is the world epicenter of<br />
bonefishing, and for more than 30 years,<br />
Bair’s Lodge (bairslodge.com) has been the<br />
destination of choice. Bair’s has access to<br />
both coastal flats and an inland creek system,<br />
you can wade or use skiffs, there’s fishing<br />
right out the front door, and it has some of<br />
the world’s best guides. Protected by Andros’s<br />
West Side National Park, it enjoys some of<br />
the least pressured waters in the world’s<br />
bonefishing capital.<br />
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FARTHER AFIELD: THE REEL DEAL<br />
LIZARD ISLAND RESORT, AUSTRALIA<br />
The only luxury resort directly on the Great Barrier Reef – the<br />
world’s largest – this private island sits within a national park<br />
and catch includes black marlin, mahi mahi, mackerel, sailfish,<br />
tuna and more, along with legendary diving and snorkelling.<br />
lizardisland.com.au<br />
TURTLE ISLAND PRIVATE ISLAND RESORT, FIJI<br />
With 12 private beaches and world-class diving, this is one of<br />
Fiji’s top luxury resorts. The island nation is one of the best<br />
fishing places in the world with the two top categories of<br />
saltwater gamefish, marlin (black, blue and striped) and tuna<br />
(yellowfin and skipjack), plus sailfish, barracuda, wahoo and<br />
mackerel. turtlefiji.com<br />
FUTA LODGE, CHILEAN PATAGONIA<br />
Patagonia is one of a handful of true fly-fishing bucket-list trips,<br />
and Futa is its best-known lodge, with miles of lightly fished<br />
pristine lakes and rivers for its guests, offering float rips and<br />
wading for record-sized brown and rainbow trout.<br />
futalodge.com<br />
© TURTLE ISLAND<br />
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HELLENIC<br />
GOLFING HAVEN<br />
Costa Navarino pairs exceptional Peloponnesian<br />
beauty with outstanding amenities – including two new<br />
championship courses // By Farhad Heydari<br />
JACOB SJÖMAN<br />
BAY OF PLENTY<br />
The Olympic<br />
Course at<br />
Costa Navarino<br />
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IN THE PANTHEON – forgive the pun – of Greek<br />
destinations, the Peloponnese might not have the same<br />
A-list cache as sun-soaked spots such as Mykonos or<br />
Santorini, to name just two. But this large peninsula,<br />
connected to the mainland by a narrow isthmus at Corinth,<br />
has quietly begun to make waves, thanks in large part to<br />
a singular masterplan destination called Costa Navarino<br />
(costanavarino.com).<br />
It was envisaged by a self-made shipping magnate named<br />
Vassilis Constantakopoulos back in the early 80s, with the<br />
businessman then spending the better part of the next 25<br />
years acquiring land – one parcel at a time – in his beloved<br />
and native Messinia, a historically significant region of the<br />
southwest Peloponnese. Today, Costa Navarino is ranked as<br />
one of the top holiday destinations in Europe.<br />
Why? Perhaps it’s because back in 2010, the resort’s<br />
first phase, Navarino Dunes, debuted with a pair of luxe<br />
hotels (The Romanos, a Luxury Collection Resort, and The<br />
Westin Resort) and a championship golf course designed by<br />
Bernhard Langer in partnership with European Golf Design.<br />
Or perhaps it’s because a couple of years later, despite the<br />
economic crisis in the region, the resort’s second phase<br />
kicked off with the debut of another 18-hole layout, the<br />
stunning Robert Trent Jones Jr-designed Bay Course.<br />
Now, however, another pair of new championship courses,<br />
the Hills and the International Olympic Academy Course,<br />
by two-time Masters champion and Ryder Cup legend José<br />
María Olazábal, as well as the sprawling beachside W Costa<br />
Navarino and an even newer Mandarin Oriental property,<br />
are adding further lustre to this expansive destination.<br />
Like the earlier courses, these latest offerings are a<br />
visually striking and challenging test, which are perched<br />
not at sea level as their earlier siblings are but rather<br />
200 metres up on a littoral plateau with views of box<br />
canyons, mountains and the azure coastline. “The<br />
two courses are distinct in character,” says Olazábal,<br />
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remarking that it took no fewer than five years to spearhead<br />
them. “The Olympic Course is more polished in style and full<br />
of spectacular vistas across the Bay of Navarino, while the<br />
Hills Course offers more of a rural feel, where we take you<br />
out through the gently rolling hills.”<br />
He’s right: dotted with ancient olive trees and lined with<br />
native vegetation and scrubland, the par 72, 6,945-yard<br />
Olympic Course features mounded undulating fairways and<br />
greens with shallow bunkering. Playability is paramount with<br />
long arching par-5s (gettable if you’re in the right position),<br />
lengthy par-3s offset with those of the shorter variety, and<br />
fun par-4s, such as the stunning 384-yard-long 10th hole,<br />
the green of which is framed by mountains and the coastline,<br />
making for one of the most scenic holes in all of golf.<br />
The visual hits (and the corresponding challenges) keep on<br />
coming, including at the 187-yard par-3 12th hole, where a keyshaped<br />
green sits atop a massively vertiginous promontory,<br />
protected by a barranca-like hazard from short right to long left.<br />
The views from the elevated 15th tee are just as distracting,<br />
offering a wonderful look over Navarino Bay – a panorama that<br />
becomes more glorious the closer you get to the green.<br />
Then there is the 198-yard par-3 16th hole, where the<br />
stunning tableau distracts yet again but where the wind<br />
conditions require immediate refocus: depending on the<br />
direction, club selection can vary up or down by five or six<br />
clubs. The penultimate hole is a risk-reward, downhill par-5<br />
that can make or break your round, with players required to<br />
either fly their second shots over a meandering rock-lined<br />
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“<br />
José<br />
The Olympic Course is more polished in style and<br />
full of spectacular vistas across the Bay of Navarino,<br />
while the Hills Course offers more of a rural feel<br />
María Olazábal, course designer<br />
HIGH LIFE<br />
Costa Navarino’s<br />
Hills Course<br />
JACOB SJÖMAN<br />
ditch that crosses the fairway short of the green or to lay up.<br />
For its part, the par-72, 6,836-yard Hills Course, is no<br />
pushover. Far from it. Playing through mature mountainside<br />
vegetation (think garrigue shrubland, autochthonous trees,<br />
ancient rock walls and sheer ravines that carve deep into the<br />
Kinigou Hills), the course features large green complexes,<br />
with tightly mown rollaway areas inset by bunkers surrounded<br />
by spongey Bermuda grass overseeded with rye that are<br />
a challenge for even single-figure handicaps. The putting<br />
surfaces are equally devilish and boast significant contouring<br />
and subtle breaks that often require a second look.<br />
Five tee locations on each hole (one less than on the Olympic<br />
Course) enable all skill levels and age groups to both enjoy the<br />
round and to challenge themselves. Case in point the 4th: the<br />
first of four par-5s, this tricky 517-yard long specimen requires<br />
precision from a semi-blind tee shot that leads to a wide but<br />
shallow green that is positioned perpendicular to the line of<br />
play and perfectly framed by long views.<br />
The experience, which is rustic, playing sometimes around<br />
ancient rocky farming boundary walls, offers a good balance<br />
and variety, from doglegs to uphill and downhill holes, long<br />
par-5s, short par-4s and challenging par-3s. The 8th is a<br />
perfect example: a demanding 432-yard par-4 with fairway<br />
that is beyond a wooded canyon – find it and you’ll have a long<br />
iron approach into a green that slopes from front left to back<br />
right. The 9th is another downhiller with a split fairway short<br />
of the green while the 557-yard 11th is a brutal, gently sloping<br />
uphill par-5 with a ravine cutting into the fairway on the left<br />
and a lone tree that protects the right – the second shot is<br />
challenged by shallow bunkers.<br />
The challenges aren’t limited to the two courses. Should your<br />
game need a post-round tune-up, there is an expansive golf<br />
academy on-site that rivals anything on Tour. Most 36-a-daytypes,<br />
however, will head back to their quarters and, having<br />
had a dip in their own pool or one at the many beach clubs,<br />
decide which of the more than 30 dining venues they will avail<br />
for dinner and postprandials.<br />
The resort writ large also includes a Mouratoglou Tennis<br />
Center, an NBA Basketball School, opportunities for myriad<br />
other sporting activities, and several public open spaces or, in<br />
ancient Greek, agora, where restaurants and bars complement<br />
boutiques, piazzas and the like. Add the tasteful addition of<br />
the waterside Mandarin Oriental and the buzzy allure of the W<br />
hotel, complete with its chillout DJ, and golfers as well as other<br />
holidaymakers won’t be short of options: after all, that’s one of<br />
Costa Navarino’s major draws.<br />
Kalamata International Airport: 27miles/43km<br />
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CULTURE BOOK<br />
FROM STREET<br />
CORNER<br />
TO SOTHEBY’S<br />
The rapid rise of stencil art in the past<br />
decades draws on a rich heritage – and looks to<br />
have an even brighter future // By Josh Sims<br />
BLAME BANKSY. If most art finds its credibility – and<br />
collectability – in winning the unofficial stamp of approval<br />
from a prestige gallery, museum or investor, street art has<br />
gone straight from urban sprawl to penthouse wall. But<br />
not just any graffiti. It’s stencil art, specifically, that in its<br />
graphic directness and ready reproducibility, both from<br />
street to street and from street to T-shirt or mug, has become<br />
a 21st-century cultural currency and a new take, perhaps, on<br />
the Pop Art of yore.<br />
If the stencil proved the logistically most efficient<br />
way of getting art up on a street wall quickly – not least<br />
because most of the preparation could be done beforehand<br />
in a studio – that also helped define its bold, neat look, its<br />
leanings towards unfiltered sociopolitical relevance and,<br />
often, its droll placement; one of Banksy’s more recent<br />
works, Valentine’s Day Mascara, made entertaining use of an<br />
abandoned chest freezer.<br />
WALL FLOWERINGS<br />
Banksy’s “Choose Your Weapon”<br />
Facing page: An example of the<br />
pioneering work of Nick Walker<br />
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“<br />
John<br />
Part of its appeal now, as then, is that it’s simple and<br />
can be done quickly – it’s like that return to three-chord<br />
songs you get after music gets overly complicated<br />
Fekner, street art pioneer<br />
OUTDOOR SCENES<br />
DOT DOT DOT’s Handgun<br />
on Sunset Boulevard, LA<br />
Facing page: Wheels over<br />
Indian Trails, in New York City,<br />
by John Fekner<br />
“Given how economically disadvantaged [fledgling] artists so<br />
often are, the stencil has long been the ultimate low-cost tool for<br />
some kind of protest messaging, from the Berlin Wall to Ukraine<br />
today,” explains Cassius Colman, founder of Nelly Duff, in London’s<br />
East End, one of the first galleries to exhibit international street<br />
artists. “And the best of it is incredibly skilled – the minimum<br />
amount of mark making for the maximum impact.”<br />
That, technically, stencil art is illegal in most places has<br />
only added to its underground edginess, affording it the cool<br />
of controversy too. Or, perhaps, that used to be the case.<br />
“I heard that ‘street art’ was being called ‘urban contemporary<br />
art’ now, and that’s when you know the institutions have<br />
started to accept it as a genre, instead of fighting it,” laughs<br />
DOT DOT DOT, the Norwegian stencil-turned-conceptual artist<br />
whose street works are characterised by their large scale and<br />
often dark wit.<br />
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“The movement for the last 10 to 15 years has scaled up<br />
the interest in art for people in general, and maybe it has<br />
been important in terms of changing people’s perspective of<br />
everyday life,” he adds. “But certainly ‘street art’ is not only of<br />
interest to a certain type of person anymore. It’s for everyone.”<br />
But, warns Colman, that doesn’t mean it’s all any good.<br />
Beware the mimics. “Invariably, as with many successful art<br />
forms, its exponents have been imitated. And street art is easy<br />
to imitate,” he suggests. “The best of it requires a strong artistic<br />
statement and comes from artists who push their own style.<br />
They have a track record of progressive, independent thinking.<br />
I don’t think anyone needs to see another ‘Mickey Mouse with a<br />
machine gun’ type of image. There’s a lineage to stencil art now<br />
that brings some sober analysis [to the market].”<br />
Indeed, for all that Banksy may have become a household<br />
name – at least in neighbourhoods where, arguably, street<br />
art is least likely to be found on the actual streets – and<br />
commands record prices (his Love is in the Bin sold in 2021 for<br />
$23.5m) he was preceded by many lesser-known but genredefining<br />
stencil artists.<br />
Among them are the likes of the École des Beaux-<br />
Arts-trained Parisian street artist Blek le Rat – his work<br />
recognised by his signature rat motif – and Nick Walker,<br />
whose ironic, humorous images helped shape the influential<br />
graffiti scene that emerged out of Bristol, UK, both artists<br />
starting out inspired by stencilling’s early 1980s explosion.<br />
And before them was the poetry-loving John Fekner, often<br />
cited as the artistic pioneer of the medium, whose 300 or<br />
more conceptual works comprising official-looking symbols,<br />
dates and words, addressing the environmental hazards of<br />
living in New York, were at the core of the city’s creative<br />
energy from the late 1960s.<br />
“The phrase ‘street art’ didn’t really happen until later and<br />
was really about people from the community painting for<br />
the community, but stencilling came out of the ‘No Nukes’<br />
protest era, as a means of making a quick, striking message<br />
about something,” says Fekner, who explains that stencilling<br />
originated during World War Two, with the US forces employing<br />
it to catalogue equipment or create makeshift signs to direct<br />
troop movements.<br />
“Part of its appeal now, as then, is that it’s simple and can<br />
be done quickly – it’s like that return to three-chord songs you<br />
get after music gets overly complicated. It also represents a<br />
kind of ‘artisan connection’ to old printing techniques, cutby-hand,<br />
woodcutting, typesetting, sign painting, and so on.<br />
Sometimes you can make new art with old tools,” says Fekner.<br />
“But I think it also appeals because it’s still ‘de-labelled’<br />
– that you don’t know who made the work – which forces<br />
consideration of the message,” he adds. “That said, I do<br />
question how street art has become so commodified.<br />
Remember too that neighbourhoods have to live with these<br />
pieces and [unlike the art world] they don’t always like them.”<br />
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STYLE GUIDE<br />
A MAN’S<br />
WORLD<br />
Fashion and accessories<br />
for him that make a<br />
statement this season<br />
DUNHILL Prince of Wales wool<br />
Rollagas down blouson BRUNELLO<br />
CUCINELLI wool flannel leisure<br />
fit trousers with pince PATEK<br />
PHILIPPE 5235/50R watch with<br />
40.5mm rose gold case, two-tone<br />
graphite and ebony black dial,<br />
self-winding movement, regulatorstyle<br />
display, hour and seconds<br />
subdials, sweep minutes, day,<br />
date and month in apertures FOPE<br />
bi-coloured yellow and white gold<br />
Essentials Flex’it ring CHAUMET<br />
rose gold Alliance Liens Évidence<br />
band GIORGIO ARMANI dark grey<br />
deer leather gloves AU DÉPART<br />
Le Martin de Voyage Reflective<br />
Jacquard and leather fourwheeled<br />
carry-on E.B.MEYROWITZ<br />
The New Yorker sunglasses in<br />
black<br />
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SERAPIAN slim briefcase Stepan Eclipse<br />
in Moss Green leather TOD’S sunglasses<br />
with black acetate frame and light<br />
brown/yellow lenses GIORGIO ARMANI<br />
black leather boots with micro-pleated<br />
nappa details (on the right) DUNHILL 1893<br />
Harness top handle bag in black leather<br />
(on the left) and hybrid plain Derby shoe<br />
RICHARD MILLE RM 72-01 Automatic<br />
Winding Lifestyle Flyback Chronograph<br />
with titanium case and black rubber strap<br />
MONTBLANC Meisterstück Selection mini<br />
bag in croc-embossed leather SERAPIAN<br />
Cachemire Eclipse pencil case in black<br />
leather MONTBLANC Writers Edition<br />
Homage to Brothers Grimm limited-edition<br />
fountain pen; Extreme 3.0 thin document<br />
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BRIONI Avio double splittable wool and cashmere Vagabond jacket SERAPIAN Secret Mosaico leather bag in coffee/<br />
khaki CHOPARD Alpine Eagle in Lucent Steel with 41mm case, pine green dial, self-winding movement and date-window<br />
between 4 and 5 o’clock BULGARI white gold B.Zero1 bracelet and ring<br />
Facing page: BRETT JOHNSON beige wool and silk bomber jacket with side pockets KITON white and beige cashmere,<br />
virgin wool and silk checked overshirt with snap buttons and breast pockets GIORGIO ARMANI straight trousers in double<br />
cashmere blend with Prince of Wales ivory pattern LEICA Q3 digital camera with triple resolution 60MP sensor, 8K Ultra<br />
HD video and new Hybrid AF system GIORGIO ARMANI pleated nappa backpack in extra soft lambskin AUDEMARS PIGUET<br />
Royal Oak Selfwinding Chronograph with 41mm pink gold case and brown dial with “Grande Tapisserie” pattern, pink gold<br />
applied hour-markers and hands with luminescent coating FOPE rose gold Flex’it ring set with black diamonds (left hand)<br />
NOEL Revolution rose gold Princess Black Diamond band (right hand.<br />
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OUR WORLD<br />
BONDING<br />
Could the key to saving the oceans lie in<br />
the arcane world of debt refinancing? Nigel Tisdall<br />
takes a look at how The Nature Conservancy<br />
is leading the way across the globe<br />
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WITH THE<br />
BLUE<br />
STRETCHING FOR 300 kilometres between<br />
Mexico and Guatemala, the Belize Barrier<br />
Reef is a World Heritage-listed chain of some<br />
200 cays and atolls where travellers enjoy<br />
sensational snorkelling, diving and sailing.<br />
Its clear, warm and often uncrowded waters<br />
pulsate with richly coloured corals and<br />
myriad creatures from the endemic whitelined<br />
toadfish to mighty loggerhead turtles.<br />
Like many of our most impressive natural<br />
wonders, this is a fragile ecosystem facing<br />
multiple threats that range from rising water<br />
temperatures and beach erosion to illegal<br />
fishing, aggressive construction, plastic waste<br />
and, potentially, oil extraction. How can a<br />
small, tourism-dependent country like Belize,<br />
home to just 400,000 people, combat all this?<br />
One answer could lie in what is commonly<br />
known as the Blue Bond, an innovative<br />
financial arrangement in which developing<br />
coastal and island nations restructure their<br />
sovereign debt on more favourable terms<br />
as a way to release funds for marine and<br />
littoral conservation.<br />
“It’s similar to refinancing a home,”<br />
explains Julie Robinson, Belize programme<br />
director at The Nature Conservancy, the<br />
Virginia-headquartered non-profit behind<br />
the scheme. “In 2021 Belize repurchased<br />
$553m of its public debt at a 45% discount.<br />
This was on condition some of the funds<br />
released would go to create protected marine<br />
zones and guarantee long-term, sustainable<br />
financing for ocean conservation over the<br />
next 20 years.”<br />
WORTH SAVING<br />
Aerial view of the Belize<br />
Barrier Reef Reserve.<br />
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BRIGHTER FUTURE<br />
Marine life will benefit from<br />
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Out on the water, this means balancing<br />
the requirements of fishing communities and<br />
tourism businesses with the urgent need to<br />
conserve mangrove forests and reefs. Money<br />
that would have disappeared in interest<br />
payments can now be put to work finding<br />
ways to protect a mini-paradise like the<br />
remote, jewel-like atoll Glover’s Reef, home<br />
to a tapestry of some 800 coral gardens. At<br />
present there are just six Fisheries Department<br />
staff here doing their best to tackle unlawful<br />
fishing in a marine reserve that stretches for<br />
32km. “Anyone caught is fined and has their<br />
boat and nets confiscated,” says manager<br />
Raphael Martinez, but his resources are<br />
extremely limited. On the more accessible and<br />
larger Turneffe Atoll radar is now being used<br />
to monitor its pristine waters, a measure that<br />
will hopefully be implemented here too.<br />
Support from larger, wealthier nations is<br />
clearly essential, and the Blue Bond offers<br />
some hope for our beleaguered oceans and<br />
their far-flung settlements. The first such<br />
debt swap was launched in the Seychelles<br />
in 2015 when the Indian Ocean archipelago<br />
refinanced $22m of borrowing in exchange<br />
for protecting 30% of its waters, a measure<br />
fulfilled in 2020. The initiative has since<br />
spread to the Caribbean where in September<br />
2022 Barbados completed a $150m Blue<br />
Bond debt conversion that will provide $50m<br />
of funding and see its marine protected areas<br />
expand from virtually zero to approximately<br />
30%. In May, Ecuador signed the largest “debt<br />
for nature” swap on record, worth $656m,<br />
that will see at least $12m a year channelled<br />
into conservation including help to protect<br />
the exceptional wildlife and landscapes of<br />
the Galápagos.<br />
The Nature Conservancy has identified 20<br />
countries that could benefit from the Blue Bond<br />
initiative and has a declared goal of seeing more<br />
than 10% of the world’s oceans under protection<br />
by 2030. While government debt negotiations<br />
are kept secret until confirmed, islands in the<br />
South Pacific could well be next in line. Fiji’s<br />
Blue Accelerator Grant Scheme, which is backed<br />
by the United Nations Development Programme,<br />
is already funding projects that support its blue<br />
economy such as the introduction of electrically<br />
powered boats, sustainable prawn farms and<br />
the country’s first mangrove eco-walk.<br />
Others in Fiji have not waited for<br />
governments, institutional investors and<br />
philanthropists to rescue our imperiled seas<br />
by juggling financial figures. On Vanua Levu,<br />
veteran French oceanographer Jean-Michel<br />
Cousteau has been involved for many years<br />
with an eponymous eco-resort that is a shining<br />
model of sustainability. Here education is<br />
seen as a vital way forward that is manifest<br />
in a kids’ club featuring a School Under the<br />
Sea where children are taught about the<br />
importance of sharks, go night snorkelling, and<br />
plant mangrove seedlings. Its resident marine<br />
biologist, Johnny Singh, sums up the situation<br />
bluntly: “We’re a small country and if we lose all<br />
this we’re gone.” As the 85-year-old Cousteau<br />
puts it: “Protect the ocean and you protect<br />
yourself.” nature.org<br />
OUR WORLD<br />
REDUCING OUR CARBON FOOTPRINT<br />
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The hottest tables in the U.K. capital belong<br />
to a host of diminuitive Japanese spots where the chef’s<br />
vision leads the way. // By Farhad Heydari<br />
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STEPHEN JOYCE; PREVIOUS SPREAD FROM LEFT: © MANDARIN ORIENTAL, © DORCHESTER COLLECTION<br />
IT ROUGHLY translates to “I’ll leave it up to you” – a nod to<br />
the all-knowing sushi chef on the other side of the spotless<br />
counter to whom you respectfully accede on matters of<br />
freshness and choice and whose largely pescatarian set menu<br />
is purveyed personally to a select few at each given seating<br />
and can in no way be altered or amended. For diners who may<br />
have special requests (“I’ll have the wasabi on the side,” for<br />
example) or are oftentimes tardy to their appointed reservation<br />
time or anticipate having a boisterous evening meal, omakase<br />
may not be for you.<br />
But if you are a diehard gastronome, these no-choice,<br />
multicourse Japanese affairs are the ultimate expression of<br />
excellence and are now burgeoning around the world. Omakase’s<br />
roots date back to Japan’s Edo period (1603-1868) when the<br />
purveyors of fish would serve their best and freshest catch to<br />
their most trusted customers, employing the Japanese spirit<br />
of omotenashi—the art of hospitality ingrained in the guest’s<br />
happiness. Today, we are as healthful and ichthyophagous as<br />
ever, and the demand for top-of-the-line, seafood-centred<br />
rations has never been more acute, which is why we are seeing<br />
the emergence of small, discreet, hole-in-the-wall eateries<br />
around the world, which have proliferated and are drawing au<br />
fait gastronomes in droves.<br />
That’s if you can get a reservation. Take London, for example.<br />
With myriad direct flights to Japan, and with the British Isles<br />
a bountiful aquatic larder for the freshest catch, top-tier<br />
sushi chefs are now showcasing their skills and creativity in<br />
spartan, often unmarked, intimate settings where tradition<br />
and authenticity come to the fore and the focus remains firmly<br />
on high-quality ingredients and expert preparation.<br />
Sushi Kanesaka (45parklane.com) is a perfect example.<br />
Hidden behind an unmarked door on the second floor of the<br />
Dorchester Hotel’s sister property, 45 Park Lane, it oozes<br />
the kind of zen “find” that diners crave. In fact, it’s a setting<br />
straight out of Ginza, which also happens to be where master<br />
chef Shinji Kanesaka’s two Michelin-starred original outpost is<br />
based. Like its sibling, napkins are delivered in hand-lacquered<br />
boxes, the ikebana floral arrangement is reassuringly front and<br />
centre, and guests are asked to “refrain from wearing perfume<br />
as the refreshing aroma of vinegar is an important part of the<br />
sushi experience—as is the natural flavor of the fish itself.”<br />
Those lucky enough to secure a reservation at the 13-seat<br />
sleek cedarwood counter will enjoy not only an 18-course<br />
masterpiece but they’ll also witness monk-like chefs working<br />
together in an elegant ballet in a cosy and polished space<br />
framed with soothing backlit washi screens.<br />
Another transportive portal is Taku (takumayfair.com), the<br />
16-seat brainchild of chef Takuya Watanabe, whose Parisian<br />
omakase restaurant Jin was the first to be bestowed with a<br />
Michelin star. Located behind noren curtains on fashionable<br />
Albemarle Street in Mayfair, the ever-changing, Edomae-style<br />
cuisine (a more traditional expression of sushi-making that<br />
involves laboriously curing fish, and a particular way with rice<br />
that allows the delicate umami notes to come to the fore),<br />
was lavished with a Michelin star in March <strong>2023</strong>, just four<br />
months after its debut. Diners at the pine bar have a choice<br />
of a 20-course menu or one with additional courses appended<br />
with ultra-premium ingredients such as caviar and truffle in a<br />
serene oasis of pale woods and natural stone.<br />
Mayha London (mayhalondon.com), meanwhile, is omakase<br />
for a less-formal breed, complete with a speakeasylike<br />
subterranean bijou bar and verdant courtyard where<br />
preprandials are crafted with as much care and attention<br />
as the fare that’s served up at the curved stone chef’s table<br />
superjacent, which has touches of an industrial test kitchen<br />
to it. Beneath an eye-catching bespoke light installation that<br />
recalls a tree of light or a beautiful canopy of illuminated<br />
flowers and with an eclectic soundtrack as the accompaniment,<br />
head chefs Jurek Wasio and Yuichi Nakaya craft a menu using<br />
meticulously sourced seasonal ingredients from a range of<br />
local and Japanese suppliers, the latter providing the finest<br />
seafood and specialty produce, at two seatings to 11 patrons<br />
each evening on chic Chiltern Street.<br />
Then there is Roketsu (roketsu.co.uk), a gloriously minimalist<br />
bilevel time-space threshold that instantly transports you<br />
to Kyoto, where, incidentally, all of the pared-back and<br />
streamlined interiors were fashioned by the craftsmen from<br />
Nakamura Sotoji Komuten, one of the world’s leading experts<br />
in the Sukiya style of architecture using Japanese hinoki wood,<br />
before being shipped to the UK and assembled on-site. The<br />
LIGHT FANTASTIC<br />
Mayha London’s bespoke<br />
installation and counter<br />
Previous pages, from left:<br />
Omakase at The Aubrey;<br />
chef Shinji Kanesaka at<br />
45 Park Lane<br />
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GOURMET GUIDE<br />
TASTE OF JAPAN<br />
From left: Endo<br />
Kazutoshi; place setting<br />
at Roketsu; The Aubrey’s<br />
fare; Sushi Kanesaka<br />
Marylebone eatery is situated in Portman Village, where chefowner<br />
Daisuke Hayashi, who brings decades of experience at<br />
Japan’s world-renowned Kikunoi Honten working as a protégé<br />
of the owner and chef Yoshihiro Murata, serves up a traditional<br />
kaiseki meal with dashi (the mystical Japanese dried fishbased<br />
broth) as its foundation, for 10 diners at two sittings<br />
each evening. The attention to detail is next-level – inspired by<br />
the wabi philosophy and aesthetic, even the tableware varies<br />
by season in accordance with its principles. Libations, which<br />
can also be enjoyed at the midcentury basement lounge, have<br />
been conceived by sommelier Ryosuke Mashio, who prior to<br />
Roketsu spent 13 years as head sommelier at Michelin-starred<br />
Umu. He has amassed an award-winning wine list where over 70<br />
sakes are on offer by the bottle, including two sakes imported<br />
exclusively for the restaurant – Kikunoi and Echigoryu – as well<br />
as more than 20 available by the glass.<br />
A similar fusion of omakase and kaiseki is on offer at the<br />
incredible eight-seat Maru (marulondon.com). Helmed by<br />
Yasuhiro Ochiai, previously head chef at two-Michelin-star<br />
Masato Nishihara’s esteemed Tsukumo restaurant in Nara,<br />
Japan, the restaurant offers a 20-course farm-to-fork, fishled<br />
daily-changing menu featuring primarily hyper-seasonal<br />
British ingredients in a petite space in Mayfair’s Shepherd<br />
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Market. The setting is serene with interiors (complete with an<br />
eye-catchingly fetching framed shūji calligraphy), floristry, and<br />
crockery (handmade by Maruyama himself) that complement<br />
the multisensory meal. A must-try is the king crab, served in a<br />
silver bowl cast from the shell itself.<br />
But not all omakase has to be of the break-the-bank variety.<br />
At TOKii (tokii.co.uk), the refined in-house restaurant of the<br />
petite Nipponese Marylebone hostelry The Prince Akatoki,<br />
one can indulge in an intimate blind-tasting experience<br />
that’s veiled in secrecy until you and five other guests are<br />
comfortably seated at the chef’s counter for your 11-course<br />
journey. The décor and service are unfaultable and the fleet<br />
of elegant dishes (think Otoro tuna belly temaki) are served<br />
with confidence and aplomb.<br />
Those unfaltering precepts have held Endo at the Rotunda<br />
(endoatrotunda.com) in good stead since April 2019 when it<br />
opened on the top floor of The Helios building in West London.<br />
Since then, it has garnered a Michelin star thanks to chef Endo<br />
Kazutoshi’s uncompromisingly fastidious attention to detail<br />
and ingredients – seafood, for example, is sourced from Endo’s<br />
personal relationship with just a handful of fishermen: clams<br />
from Dorset, monkfish from Devon, cuttlefish from Brittany,<br />
scallops from Orkney, and much more. And the rice, as another<br />
example, is from a dedicated farm in Fukuoka Prefecture,<br />
ensuring that it has the perfect PH when rendered. Patrons,<br />
just a dozen of them, sit transfixed around a meandering<br />
200-year-old hinoki wood counter and beneath a washiinspired,<br />
cloud light feature that levitates gracefully above,<br />
with expansive views of West London as accompaniment.<br />
But omakase as a concept isn’t limited to just exquisite<br />
rations. At The Aubrey (theaubreycollection.com), an eccentric<br />
Japanese izakaya experience at the Mandarin Oriental Hyde<br />
Park, bar director Pietro Rizzo and his team embrace the<br />
ancient principals of seasonal and elegant combinations, for<br />
a deeply immersive and ever-changing experience through<br />
the expansive world of Japanese spirits including everything<br />
from umeshu, shochu, sake, and a miscellany of Asian herbs<br />
and spices. The elusive ingredients are transformed into<br />
exciting elixirs that are served alongside a carefully curated<br />
selection of Japanese-inspired light bites to just six patrons<br />
per sitting, in a stunningly sultry space, with art inspired by<br />
the Japonisme movement, gilded finishings, and plush leather<br />
and velvet furnishings and fixtures, all tucked away behind a<br />
secret door. In the end, regardless of the particulars of the<br />
omakase experience, the remarkable blend of seasonality and<br />
intimate size ensures it will be a meal to remember.<br />
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BOLD<br />
BUBBLES<br />
Grower champagnes are all the rage, focused on single-estate bottlings<br />
and small producers. But are these popular bubbles worth all the fuss?<br />
// By Christiaan Porter<br />
IN TIMES WHEN so many products are dubbed artisanal,<br />
when authenticity is a prized characteristic for many upscale<br />
goods and a heartwarming origin story all part of the pitch<br />
to ever more conscious consumers, it would be surprising if<br />
such a luxury product as champagne escaped the same buzz.<br />
Enter “grower” champagnes. Finding increased resonance<br />
over the course of the last two decades, they still qualify<br />
– in the slow-moving French region of Champagne – as the<br />
next big thing.<br />
These are the “récoltants manipulants”, or RM, as they’re<br />
designated on their bottles, indicating that at least 95% of<br />
the grapes used were grown on a single estate. Typically,<br />
they’re from small independent producers, maybe just one<br />
or two generations old who, being young, are evangelists for<br />
new, more radical methods. And so the bottles might also<br />
feature single vintage, single vineyard, single variety, or low<br />
intervention distinctions, often fashionably natural or organic<br />
in their approach in ways more common in Burgundy but rare<br />
in Champagne.<br />
Unbolstered by much in the way of reserves, these grower<br />
champagnes are unique and reflective of a very localised soil<br />
and climate – to the point that a single bottle may be a true<br />
one-off – and, indeed, some wine experts and producers have<br />
argued as early as the 1930s that truly great champagnes are<br />
always this singular.<br />
There are, of course, some grandes marques in Champagne<br />
that do trumpet their localism – Krug began producing<br />
single vineyard, single vintage blanc de blancs 44 years ago<br />
– but a renewed enthusiasm for the idea has seen the likes<br />
of champagne portfolio manager Terry Theise speak of the<br />
merits of “farmer fizz”, as distinct from champagnes that are<br />
– as he damningly puts it – “from a factory”. These are the<br />
“négociants manipulants” whose output is consistent year<br />
after year, a steady stream of consistent bubbles. In contrast,<br />
names like Vilmart & Cie, Egly-Ouriet, Ulysse Collin, Jacques<br />
Selosse, Benoit Marguet, Pierre Paillard, Philipponnat and<br />
Pierre Gimonnet have been trumpeted as grower Davids up<br />
against these multinational Goliaths. These growers lack<br />
access to marketing budgets, and their under-the-radar<br />
reputation is typically built by word of mouth. That they’re<br />
hard to find perhaps only adds to their appeal, especially for<br />
some wine investors.<br />
Certainly, it’s argued, grower champagnes have had a<br />
positive impact on the Champagne region. They are giving it<br />
a frisson of fresh energy, extending choice with something<br />
different, bringing a more personal, familial approach. Most<br />
importantly, they are helping with soil conservation in an<br />
industry that has relied heavily on pesticides and fertilizers<br />
and, indirectly, may be applying some pressure to move to<br />
more organic practises among the large negotiants that still<br />
represent the overwhelming major of Champagne’s production.<br />
The likes of Dom Pérignon and Louis Roederer are among those<br />
giants that have taken steps towards more organic and more<br />
terroir-specific products in recent years.<br />
“Historically, it’s been a marginal climate for viticulture,<br />
but the champagnois feel the changing climate more acutely,”<br />
explains Davy Zyw, wine merchant Berry Bros & Rudd’s<br />
champagne expert and senior wine buyer. “Recent growing<br />
seasons have tested the vines, the terroirs, and exposed the<br />
best farmers in the region, and there is increased division<br />
NEW VINTAGE<br />
The cellar at grower label<br />
Champagne Philipponnat<br />
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“<br />
Mark<br />
These small growers have control over their own grapes,<br />
will know each vine intimately, and will pick at optimum<br />
maturity for their own product<br />
Savage of Savage Selection<br />
between the vignerons who are responding correctly, and<br />
those who are not. It is the most sensitive vigneron who are<br />
making the best wines. And these are often the small growers.”<br />
Indeed, according to wine merchant Mark Savage of Savage<br />
Selection – one of the few specialists in grower champagnes –<br />
the grower market is now at the stage where it’s finding more<br />
widespread acceptance, while the dominance of the grandes<br />
marques and their centuries of tradition is less certain. For one,<br />
attitudes have changed. While they may be a minority, Savage<br />
argues that there are increasing numbers of people “who aren’t<br />
obsessed with the grandes marques, who recognise that these<br />
big names have huge marketing power – the strongest in the<br />
entire wine industry – but that maintaining that requires<br />
drinkers to pay a hefty premium”.<br />
Standards have improved massively too. If grower<br />
champagnes had little hope of matching the grandes marques’<br />
quality 50 years ago, says Savage, more recent years have seen<br />
improved insights as to which of them have the skills, vines,<br />
and location to compete, and the building of a reassuring track<br />
record of impressive champagnes to boot. “What’s more,” he<br />
says, “these small growers have control over their own grapes,<br />
will know each vine intimately, and will pick at optimum<br />
maturity for their own product. There isn’t the same incentive<br />
to take the same care if you’re just selling your grapes on to a<br />
grande marque.”<br />
Thirdly, grower champagnes are changing our ideas about<br />
what champagne is or should be. “Those few titanic grandes<br />
marques and their uniform cuvées have trained consumers to<br />
expect consistency in champagne styles. But this has only ever<br />
given us a binary view into a region that holds such wealth and<br />
diversity of terroir, style, winemaking talent and philosophy,”<br />
explains Zyw. “But now many small producers, often the younger<br />
generations, are not renewing contracts to sell grapes to the<br />
larger houses, and instead are looking to articulate their own<br />
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ALL IN THE PROCESS<br />
Testing time<br />
at Champagne<br />
Philipponnat;<br />
facing page: among<br />
the vines<br />
at Champagne<br />
Marguet<br />
vineyards, in a way we would associate with, say, Burgundy. I<br />
think the Champagne region is at the cusp of climatic, cultural<br />
and commercial change, and there’s really never been a more<br />
exciting time for champagne enthusiasts.”<br />
This, however, isn’t to say that grower champagnes are<br />
exactly set to take over. It can be hard to cut through the hype.<br />
Some argue that they are still more a product of excitable overexuberance,<br />
driven by farm-to-table restaurants keen to offer<br />
ever more discerning diners wine lists of specific Champagne<br />
regions and styles. Likewise, grower champagnes have proven a<br />
boon to independent wine retailers, competing with the market<br />
forces of much larger retailers, in providing them with a more<br />
accessibly priced product that allows them to stand apart.<br />
And, as Alan Marginean of the International Sommeliers<br />
Union notes, grower champagnes are not without controversy<br />
in the wine world where it counts – in the taste. Some feel that<br />
their “racy acidity, with lots of mouthfeel” makes them a perfect<br />
accompaniment to many foods, one way in which sommeliers<br />
might convince diners to explore a singular champagne from<br />
a house they’ve likely never heard of. “But perhaps they are<br />
less good on their own, because they lack the ageing balance<br />
and the richness [of grandes marques champagnes],” he says.<br />
“Champagne has always struggled to find a market outside of<br />
celebrations and high-end restaurants. So even if awareness<br />
of grower wines is increasing, they’re going to be more for the<br />
wine geeks.”<br />
Indeed, these grower champagnes account for between just<br />
five and 10% of exports, according to Comité Champagne. Just<br />
5,000 of the estimated 19,000 independent growers across<br />
the Champagne region hold back some of their grapes – often<br />
from the best parcels of land – to produce their own wine, and<br />
then often only for local consumption.<br />
As far as the geeks go, the ones driving demand for grower<br />
champagnes, this is still very much a matter of caveat emptor<br />
– since, even with improved knowledge of what the market<br />
offers, both the thrill and the potential disappointment<br />
of grower champagnes is their very inconsistency and<br />
idiosyncrasy. That’s less an issue plumping for the never-tobe-repeated<br />
drinking experience of a bottle recommended<br />
by a sommelier. It’s trickier when you want to buy several.<br />
Shifts from the transcendent to the terrible in the same<br />
case might be expected. Think of grower champagnes, then,<br />
as independent films, relative to Hollywood blockbusters:<br />
always interesting if not always successful compared to the<br />
dependable if rarely surprising.<br />
MICHAËL BOUDOT<br />
Scale and historical background help to build stock levels<br />
and reserve wine levels that enable production of higher quality<br />
champagne over a longer period of time. The producer is less<br />
reliant on the quality of individual harvests. And it is true that<br />
some people’s interest is limited if they know they can enjoy<br />
a great bottle but never reorder it. If grower champagnes are<br />
a concept people love to like, then there is always reality. You<br />
can be a very small producer and make something terrible<br />
as much as the opposite can be true. People advanced in<br />
their wine knowledge are interested in grower wines but it’s<br />
important to take a balanced view. People want to find those<br />
golden nuggets – but there remain very few of those around.<br />
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TEMPTATION<br />
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The new home for Istanbul Modern,<br />
the country’s foremost repository of<br />
contemporary and modern art, entices<br />
both with its bold new structure and<br />
the sheer breadth of the work within<br />
CEMAL EMDEN<br />
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ABOVE<br />
From top: a hall in<br />
the exhibition Always<br />
Here; From the series<br />
Constructed_V2, by<br />
Zeynep Kayan, part of<br />
the exhibition<br />
FACING PAGE<br />
Hera Büyüktaşcıyan’s<br />
A Study on Endless<br />
Archipelagos, featured<br />
in Always Here<br />
PAGES 82-83<br />
Renzo Piano’s<br />
remarkable design<br />
for Istanbul Modern<br />
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RISEN FROM<br />
THE WATER<br />
The confluence of the Bosphorus and the Golden Horn has an<br />
air of magic about it, and it is no surprise that on the banks<br />
of this mystical meeting place, one of the world’s greatest<br />
architects has conjured a masterpiece. The new home of<br />
Istanbul Modern, Turkey’s original museum of modern and<br />
contemporary art, covers 10,500sq m with an assortment of<br />
exhibitions, film screenings, educational programmes and, of<br />
course, a collection of more than 280 works by the country’s<br />
most renowned artists from 1945 to the present day, as well as<br />
international stars (Yüksel Arslan, Mark Bradford, Tony Cragg,<br />
Olafur Eliasson, Gülsün Karamustafa and Anselm Kiefer among<br />
them). The creator is Italian superstar architect Renzo Piano,<br />
who took inspiration from the watery surrounds to design a<br />
shimmering building of glass and metal. Of his creation, he<br />
says: “This museum building is like a creature of the sea, that<br />
has just jumped out from the water of the Bosphorus. We<br />
wanted to make a building to defy gravity and levitate above<br />
the ground, creating transparency with views towards the<br />
sea on one side and on the other the park and the medieval<br />
district of Galata.” The rota of recent exhibitions matches<br />
the building in ambition, among them Floating Islands, which<br />
pays homage to artists’ attachment to a specific place while<br />
also emphasising the impact of their thought and production<br />
beyond borders and geographies; Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s In Another<br />
Place, featuring 22 portraits taken around the world by the<br />
Turkish filmmaker; and Always Here, a collection of feminist<br />
works. istanbulmodern.org<br />
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The Floating<br />
Islands exhibition<br />
ENRICO CANO<br />
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ABOVE<br />
Mud Boys, India, by<br />
Nuri Bilge Ceylan,<br />
from In Another Place<br />
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Olafur Eliasson’s Your<br />
unexpected journey, from<br />
Floating Islands<br />
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ABOVE<br />
From top: scenes from<br />
Jenna Sutela’s weton-wet<br />
watercolour<br />
painting, which will<br />
be on display at the<br />
biennial; Red Forest’s<br />
Abandoned positions of<br />
the Russian Army in the<br />
Red Forest, Chernobyl<br />
Exclusion Zone<br />
FACING PAGE<br />
A stage in the design<br />
process of artist Adrián<br />
Villar Rojas, whose sitespecific<br />
installation, The<br />
End of Imagination, is on<br />
Vallisaari Island<br />
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THE LAST WORD<br />
JULIAN RENTZSCH<br />
FRANK<br />
GEHRY<br />
The legendary architect on life away from the drawing board<br />
TRAVEL<br />
Home comforts or reaching out?<br />
I travel a lot for work so I love to stay at home! But we are<br />
going to Morocco for a vacation in a couple of months. I’ve<br />
been there before but never to Marrakech. We love going to<br />
Berlin – we did a concert hall there for Daniel Barenboim. It<br />
turned out to be pretty damned good. I’m going to have my<br />
next birthday there. One place I’d like to go is Egypt. I’ve<br />
paid for trips to Egypt several times but for some reason<br />
they didn’t work out.<br />
FOOD<br />
Big names or hidden gems?<br />
I’m not very fussy about food, but I usually look for local<br />
fare. I remember in Paris that a chef opened up a place<br />
after her “job” and it was all very classical French. You<br />
could only see 15 people in this little room and there was<br />
old French cooking. That was very special. I like things like<br />
that – bistros and Paris.<br />
DRINK<br />
Classy cabernet or a contemporary cocktail?<br />
I love a good wine. I was offered the chance to design a winery<br />
for Marqués de Riscal. I said the job was too small but I<br />
visited anyway. They took me down to the cave and they asked<br />
me when my birthday was. I told them and they pulled out a<br />
bottle of 1929 red, took a sword, cut the top off, and poured<br />
the wine. It was so good. I said, “OK, OK, if you give me this<br />
kind of wine, I’m going to do the job.”<br />
ARTS<br />
Live entertainment or still life?<br />
Well, I’ve designed a few concert halls so I’ve been involved<br />
with them over the years. I’m on Herbie Hancock’s board so<br />
I’m very involved with his work. I mostly go out to see classical<br />
music and jazz. A little bit of opera. I used to listen to music<br />
when I was a young kid in architecture school. I used to listen<br />
to Bach constantly, playing always while I was working.<br />
FUTURE PLANS<br />
Taking it easy or keep on going?<br />
I love working on concert halls. If someone offers me anything<br />
related to classical music, I drop everything and go, wherever<br />
it is. It’s the fascination with connecting people. It does it so<br />
beautifully. I love that feeling.<br />
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