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<strong>Spring</strong> <strong>2024</strong><br />
NORTHERN LIGHTS<br />
The best of the<br />
Nordics explored<br />
FAMILY TIES<br />
Preserving memories<br />
with Legacy Literature<br />
ISLAND IDYLLS<br />
Upates on the Azores<br />
and Balearics<br />
IN THE CLUB<br />
Florida’s latest<br />
golfing community<br />
KEEP IT SWEET<br />
The sublime wines<br />
of Sauternes
- A n Is land Sanc t u ary like no oth e r<br />
cd: ROBB AARON GORDON
LOVELANAI.COM
TAKING OFF<br />
THE WARMER WEATHER OFTEN BRINGS FAMILIES TOGETHER —<br />
AND THAT’S WHERE NETJETS COMES IN.<br />
One of the many privileges of our business is creating special memories.<br />
<strong>Spring</strong> tends to be our busiest season for the US, followed by the summer<br />
for Europe. Our goal is to always prioritise safety and service,<br />
but beyond that, we want to ensure our Owners have an exceptional experience.<br />
As shared within these pages, we recently visited a golf resort, a château and the Nordics<br />
– diverse destinations all guaranteed to bring wonderful family memories.<br />
So, as the seasons change, winter fades, and signs of new growth emerge, we encourage<br />
you to take the vacation. Make the memories. Choose the unique destination.<br />
Now and always, we look forward to serving you and your family.<br />
Only NetJets!<br />
Adam Johnson<br />
Chairman and CEO<br />
CONTRIBUTORS<br />
DAVID DE<br />
VLEESCHAUWER<br />
A fascinating<br />
destination<br />
throughout the<br />
year, Europe’s<br />
Nordic region –<br />
and its lodges – is<br />
captured in all<br />
its glories by the<br />
Belgium-based<br />
photographer for<br />
Postcards from the<br />
North (page 54).<br />
DEVORAH<br />
LEV-TOV<br />
The food writer<br />
from New York<br />
visited Castile-La<br />
Mancha, the fabled<br />
Spanish region,<br />
for Turning the<br />
Tables (page 78),<br />
where a new twist<br />
is being given to old<br />
gourmet methods<br />
– and the rewards<br />
are plentiful.<br />
CHRIS HALL<br />
In Time for Change<br />
(page 68), the<br />
British watch<br />
expert heads<br />
across the Channel<br />
– and goes further<br />
afield – to look at<br />
a growing success<br />
of independent<br />
watchmakers and<br />
their remarkable<br />
one-of-kindcreations.<br />
EMMA VENTURA<br />
NetJets, The<br />
Magazine’s Chief<br />
Copy Editor gets<br />
the lowdown<br />
on the work of<br />
Legacy Literature<br />
and its attempts<br />
to chronicle the<br />
histories of some<br />
of America’s most<br />
prominent families<br />
in Day’s of their<br />
Lives (page 64)<br />
JEFFREY T.<br />
IVERSON<br />
From his Parisian<br />
home, the<br />
acclaimed wine<br />
scribe is expertly<br />
placed to assess<br />
the Sweet Success<br />
(page 84) of<br />
the Sauternes<br />
appellation and<br />
its new generation<br />
of superlative<br />
dessert wines.<br />
This symbol throughout the magazine denotes the nearest airport served by NetJets to the<br />
story’s subject, with approximate distances in miles and kilometres where applicable.<br />
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CONTENTS<br />
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ARCH TRIUMPH<br />
Santa Ponsa,<br />
Menorca, page 20<br />
12 28 84<br />
IN THE NEWS<br />
Developments in the<br />
Azores and Balearics, the<br />
finest spirits, and more<br />
pages 14-34<br />
NORTHERN LIGHTS<br />
Enchanting lodges and<br />
one-of-a-kind experiences<br />
from the roof of Europe<br />
pages 54-63<br />
HEART OF SPAIN<br />
Idyllic Castile-La Mancha<br />
is alive with five-star<br />
dining options<br />
pages 78-83<br />
NETJETS UPDATE<br />
Staff in profile and<br />
the numbers behind<br />
<strong>2024</strong> at a glance<br />
pages 38-42<br />
STORIES TO TELL<br />
Legacy Literature is<br />
rewriting the book on<br />
family biographies<br />
pages 64-67<br />
KEEP IT SWEET<br />
The French appellation of<br />
Sauternes is regenerating<br />
dessert wines<br />
pages 84-89<br />
FLORIDA CALLING<br />
Panther National is<br />
the Sunshine State’s<br />
latest golfing nirvana<br />
pages 44-49<br />
INDEPENDENTS’ TIME<br />
Grand in design, smallproduction<br />
watchmakers<br />
are on the rise<br />
pages 68-72<br />
ART CENTRAL<br />
Damien Hirst’s eclectic<br />
work finds a fitting home<br />
at Château La Coste<br />
pages 90-97<br />
CÉLINE HAMELIN, FRANCISCO NOGUEIRA, JENSEN LARSON, MICHAËL BOUDOT<br />
A QUESTION OF DIET<br />
Eating well while travelling<br />
can be hard – but Mayo<br />
Clinic has a plan for it<br />
pages 50-52<br />
GREEN DREAM<br />
This season’s jewels<br />
glisten more brightly<br />
with an emerald hue<br />
pages 74-77<br />
THE LAST WORD<br />
Formula 1 driver Pierre<br />
Gasly on life away<br />
from the fast lane<br />
page 98<br />
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NETJETS, THE MAGAZINE<br />
FRONT COVER<br />
Europe in Bloom: A striped<br />
tulip field, North Holland,<br />
Netherlands<br />
(From the Nordics to the<br />
Balearics, the continent in<br />
spring features throughout<br />
this issue)<br />
Image by Abstract Aerial<br />
Art / Getty Images<br />
SPRING <strong>2024</strong><br />
EDITOR IN CHIEF<br />
Thomas Midulla<br />
EDITOR<br />
Farhad Heydari<br />
CREATIVE DIRECTOR<br />
Anne Plamann<br />
PHOTO DIRECTOR<br />
Martin Kreuzer<br />
ART DIRECTOR<br />
Anja Eichinger<br />
MANAGING EDITOR<br />
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CHIEF COPY EDITOR<br />
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STAFF WRITER<br />
Claudia Whiteus<br />
CHIEF SUB-EDITOR<br />
Vicki Reeve<br />
PRODUCTION DIRECTOR<br />
Albert Keller<br />
SEPARATION<br />
Delnaz Loftimaragh<br />
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PHOTOGRAPHERS AND<br />
ILLUSTRATORS<br />
Oleg Borodin, Ivan Carvalho,<br />
David De Vleeschauwer, Chris<br />
Hall, Jeffrey T. Iverson, Jörn<br />
Kaspuhl, Devorah Lev-Tov,<br />
Larry Olmsted, Debbie Pappyn,<br />
Julian Rentzsch, Tomás<br />
Simões, Elisa Vallata,<br />
Xavier Young<br />
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Split-seconds chronograph<br />
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On The Wrist
THE SMART GUIDE<br />
Our collection of the latest, the<br />
brightest, and the best begins with<br />
developments in the Atlantic<br />
SPLENDID ISOLATION<br />
Defined by its wild volcanic beauty, elegant minimalist hotels and vinous<br />
riches, the Azores is the far-flung Portuguese destination worth crossing<br />
an ocean to explore // By Ivan Carvalho<br />
FRANCISCO NOGUEIRA<br />
FEW PLACES ON Earth<br />
possess as much natural<br />
allure as the Azores. Born<br />
from volcanic eruptions<br />
dating back at least six<br />
million years, this nine-island<br />
Portuguese archipelago in the<br />
North Atlantic is dotted with<br />
stunning calderas now filled<br />
in with lakes and lagoons.<br />
Anchored in the middle of<br />
the ocean, its climate is<br />
tempered by the Gulf Stream<br />
and boasts lush vegetation,<br />
tea plantations and vineyards<br />
producing some of Iberia’s<br />
most distinctive wines.<br />
Once a way station between<br />
continents, the islands are<br />
today being discovered by<br />
discerning travellers as a<br />
destination in their own right.<br />
Looking down from above,<br />
arriving visitors are quickly<br />
drawn to the landscape<br />
on the largest and most<br />
populous island, São Miguel,<br />
which is marked by swathes<br />
of temperate rainforest,<br />
and vivid blue and green<br />
lakes. Fumaroles and hot<br />
springs signal the volcanic<br />
make-up of the Azores, and<br />
wellness aficionados flock<br />
to Furnas Valley, located on<br />
PEAK PERFECTION<br />
The Azores Wine Company<br />
on Pico Island<br />
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THE SMART GUIDE<br />
the island’s eastern half – a<br />
veritable thermal hydropolis<br />
with dozens of hot springs.<br />
Here you find orange-tinged,<br />
iron-rich waters hovering<br />
around 104F, which can be<br />
exclusively accessed in the<br />
mornings by guests indulging<br />
in the outdoor pool of the<br />
Terra Nostra Garden Hotel<br />
(bensaudehotels.com), an<br />
Art Deco-inspired property<br />
dating back to the 1930s.<br />
vegetable stew that’s cooked<br />
underground by volcanic<br />
heat for eight hours.<br />
Should the call of the<br />
sea beckon, venture to the<br />
island’s north shore, to the<br />
Santa Bárbara Eco-Beach<br />
Resort (santabarbaraazores.<br />
com), en route calling at<br />
Chá Gorreana (gorreana.pt),<br />
Europe’s oldest operating tea<br />
plantation, to try its greenand<br />
black-leaf varieties.<br />
A dip in the mineral-<br />
At Santa Bárbara hotel,<br />
infused thermal water has<br />
activities include kayaking,<br />
benefits for the skin and<br />
surfing, sailing and swimming<br />
has helped spur the launch<br />
with dolphins. Founded by<br />
of Azorean-based clean<br />
an entrepreneurial-minded<br />
beauty brand Ignae (ignae.<br />
surfer next to a beach of<br />
com), which includes a range<br />
black sand sharing the same<br />
of serums and cleansers<br />
name, it offers 30 suites and<br />
sourced from volcanic<br />
villas built from native wood<br />
thermal water and skin-<br />
and cork for those seeking a<br />
friendly local ingredients<br />
rustic-meets-luxe escape.<br />
such as algae and Camellia<br />
japonica – a product line<br />
that has made it Stateside,<br />
to Bergdorf Goodman. After<br />
Heading south-west from<br />
here takes you to Ponta<br />
Delgada, the archipelago’s<br />
largest city (and home to<br />
PAULO GOULART<br />
an Ignae spa treatment<br />
João Paulo II Airport). This<br />
at Terra Nostra, be sure<br />
is where you’ll find the bijou<br />
to get acquainted with the<br />
ensconced in what was once<br />
to visit the neighbouring<br />
hotel White (whiteazores.<br />
ocean, complemented by<br />
a farm. Sip a sundowner<br />
Octant Furnas (furnas.<br />
com), a sister property of<br />
a heated saltwater infinity<br />
at the rooftop bar before<br />
octanthotels.com) to savour<br />
the Santa Bárbara. Perched<br />
pool, dramatic terrace<br />
sitting down in its Magma<br />
the culinary delights of chef<br />
overlooking the waves<br />
and minimalist interior.<br />
restaurant, which features<br />
Henrique Mouro. A must<br />
and black-stone cliffs, its<br />
For dinner, head inland<br />
a menu of island-influenced<br />
is the traditional cozido<br />
nine suites and two villas<br />
to the Senhora da Rosa<br />
dishes – think tuna belly and<br />
das Furnas, a meat-and-<br />
provide an intimate setting<br />
Hotel (senhoradarosa.com),<br />
octopus, and desserts made<br />
with Azorean pineapples.<br />
The wine list at Magma<br />
places emphasis on varietals<br />
grown on Pico Island, part of<br />
the central island group of the<br />
Azores and home to vineyards<br />
recognised as a Unesco World<br />
Heritage Site. Newcomers to<br />
Pico are easily seduced by<br />
the profile of Mount Pico,<br />
a dormant stratovolcano<br />
often ringed by mist and<br />
Portugal’s highest point. At<br />
boutique hotel Adega do Fogo<br />
(adegadofogo.com), consisting<br />
of six rooms carved out of<br />
what was once a communal<br />
FRANCISCO NOGUEIRA<br />
NATURAL BEAUTY<br />
From top: outdoor dining at<br />
Senhora da Rosa; an infinity<br />
pool at White<br />
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THE SMART GUIDE<br />
AZORES AESTHETICS<br />
Clockwise from near left:<br />
roasted pork belly at<br />
Octant Furnas; a room at<br />
the Azores Wine Company;<br />
bottom: Adega do Fogo,<br />
with Mount Pico in the<br />
background<br />
distillery, one can admire the<br />
impressive mountain peak of<br />
this viticulture-rich isle from<br />
the comfort of a sun lounger.<br />
Enophiles can venture<br />
out to see the impressive<br />
network of weather-worn<br />
black basalt walls built<br />
to protect the thousands<br />
of small, contiguous,<br />
rectangular vineyard plots<br />
(“currais”) from wind and<br />
© OCTANT FURNAS<br />
seawater – if placed in a<br />
line, these walls would lap<br />
oceanfront tasting<br />
by Fortunato Garcia, the<br />
a 50-year tawny port and<br />
the Equator twice. Award-<br />
room and Scandi-style<br />
company makes a late-<br />
are sought after by wine<br />
winning wines are made here<br />
accommodations. In a<br />
harvest dessert wine<br />
collectors from New York to<br />
from white varietals arinto,<br />
blind tasting, Maçanita’s<br />
from old vines in Criação<br />
London – the 1999 vintage<br />
verdelho and terrantez, and<br />
Vinha dos Utras 2019 beat<br />
Velha next to the coast.<br />
now sells for €7,500. It’s<br />
have been spearheaded by<br />
out older whites from<br />
Unfortified, this licoroso<br />
testament to the unique<br />
enologist António Maçanita<br />
prestigious producers in<br />
wine naturally achieves<br />
appeal and authenticity<br />
from Azores Wine Company<br />
Burgundy and Alsace.<br />
upwards of 18% alcohol.<br />
that Pico, and the Azores in<br />
(antoniomacanita.com),<br />
Another standout<br />
Produced in small batches,<br />
general, now offers.<br />
whose low-slung winery<br />
producer is Czar Winery<br />
vintages from a decade ago<br />
João Paulo II Airport on<br />
boasts a spectacular<br />
(czarwinery.com). Owned<br />
have a taste profile akin to<br />
São Miguel<br />
FABRICE DEMOULIN<br />
FRANCISCO NOGUEIRA<br />
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BY APPOINTMENT TO<br />
HRH THE PRINCE OF WALES<br />
MANUFACTURER AND SUPPLIER OF FOOTWEAR<br />
CROCKETT & JONES LIMITED, NORTHAMPTON<br />
MADE IN ENGLAND | SINCE 1879<br />
Bibury<br />
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Our relaxed adaptation<br />
of a summer classic, The Chukka<br />
featuring our new Wedge Rubber Sole<br />
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THE SMART GUIDE<br />
BALEARICS BEAUTY<br />
A raft of outstanding new properties in the Mediterranean isles<br />
is catering to regal and rustic tastes alike // By Tomás Simões<br />
MARIA MISSAGLIA<br />
RUSTIC CHARM<br />
From top: the farmhouse<br />
at Son Blanc; cliffsidedrinks<br />
near Torre Vella<br />
ONCE CONSIDERED a<br />
summer-only sojourn,<br />
Spain’s Balearic Islands<br />
have become an attractive<br />
holiday-home hunters in<br />
need of a place to rest their<br />
head, recent high-profile<br />
investments have been<br />
is Son Sabater by Zafiro<br />
(zafirohotels.com), part of<br />
the upscale, family-run hotel<br />
group. Opened this spring in<br />
year-round option for those<br />
splashed out across the<br />
a quaint town on a northern<br />
seeking ample amounts<br />
archipelago. In Palma, the<br />
patch of the isle, the 15-room<br />
of sunshine minus the<br />
island chain’s main hub, city<br />
rustic-chic property occupies<br />
high-season crowds. To<br />
streets are being altered<br />
a renovated finca, or farm<br />
lure visitors, and potential<br />
with new projects, including<br />
estate, built out of stone<br />
the mixed-use development<br />
and in close proximity to the<br />
in Plaza Gomila with<br />
scenic Serra de Tramuntana<br />
restaurant, café and Jasper<br />
mountain range, with its<br />
Morrison-designed bakery,<br />
impressive coastal vistas and<br />
or the renovated townhouses<br />
terraced agricultural plots<br />
from luxury developer<br />
that form a Unesco World<br />
Besuto Homes.<br />
Heritage Site.<br />
For eye-catching getaways,<br />
For those interested<br />
you need to venture beyond<br />
in more opulent digs, the<br />
Palma to discover new<br />
recently renovated Grand<br />
CÉLINE HAMELIN<br />
openings ready to entice<br />
travellers. On the big island<br />
of Mallorca, the latest arrival<br />
to the hospitality scene<br />
Hotel Son Net (sonnet.es),<br />
just west of Palma, offers<br />
31 suites, each individually<br />
decorated in a style<br />
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THE SMART GUIDE<br />
Moving to neighbouring<br />
Menorca, Son Vell<br />
(vestigecollection.com) sits on<br />
the island’s western end and<br />
presents an idyllic escape for<br />
discerning travellers. Part of<br />
the Vestige Collection, run by<br />
a Spanish family that carefully<br />
restores at-risk properties<br />
and converts them into stylish<br />
accommodations, Son Vell<br />
capers and lemon grown<br />
on the grounds. Vestige<br />
Collection’s portfolio on the<br />
island also includes Santa<br />
Ana, a spacious six-bedroom<br />
villa that features stateof-the-art<br />
amenities in a<br />
classical setting.<br />
For a more artsyinspired<br />
holiday,<br />
Menorca Experimental<br />
debuted last year with 34<br />
(menorcaexperimental.com)<br />
rooms and an interior design<br />
delivers the goods with its<br />
that evokes a sophisticated<br />
19th-century farmhouse<br />
rural vibe. The property uses<br />
turned lodging. Thanks to the<br />
repurposed local sandstone,<br />
curatorial eye of prominent<br />
a neutral palette dominated<br />
French interior designer<br />
by shades of beige and cream,<br />
Dorothée Meilichzon,<br />
and a selection of furnishings<br />
the hotel features 43<br />
and rugs derived from natural<br />
whitewashed rooms, nine of<br />
fibres such as linen, jute<br />
which have their own private<br />
and cotton.<br />
pools, with just the right<br />
The hotel’s Vermell<br />
dose of colourful decorative<br />
restaurant works with local<br />
accents – terracotta tiles,<br />
fishmongers and butchers<br />
brightly painted vases and<br />
CÉLINE HAMELIN<br />
and incorporates produce<br />
from its vegetable and<br />
herb garden on its menu.<br />
For starters, try the scarlet<br />
doors. Pluses include the<br />
property’s proximity to<br />
a secluded beach below<br />
scenic cliffs and the scents<br />
that pays homage to the<br />
residence’s past glory as a<br />
17th-century palatial home<br />
for local aristocrats.<br />
Bringing things bang<br />
up to date, meanwhile, is<br />
Sir Richard Branson’s Son<br />
Bunyola Hotel & Villas<br />
rooms, a spacious outdoor<br />
pool and a trio of villas<br />
dotted across the extensive<br />
grounds (526ha in total)<br />
for those seeking private<br />
lodgings for big family<br />
retreats.<br />
shrimp cocktail with diced<br />
pineapple in syrup and<br />
candied orange peel or a<br />
main course such as the<br />
steak tartare made from<br />
45-day-aged beef with Foyot<br />
sauce, bread soufflé and<br />
Menorcan jam made from<br />
one picks up from the<br />
surrounding shrubs and<br />
trees, from fragrant juniper<br />
to pine.<br />
Heading away from<br />
the coast, Son Blanc<br />
(sonblancmenorca.com) is a<br />
Menorcan eco-retreat set on<br />
(virginlimitededition.com).<br />
Opened in June 2023,<br />
the property is built in an<br />
old manor house perched<br />
high atop a cliff, with<br />
commanding views of the<br />
sea and surrounding estate<br />
that boasts vineyards, citrus<br />
and almond trees, and olive<br />
groves. Thanks to investment<br />
by the British billionaire, Son<br />
Bunyola now sports 27 guest<br />
OUTSIDE PLEASURE<br />
From top: a view from<br />
Santa Ponsa; an alfresco<br />
Son Blanc dinner<br />
MARIA MISSAGLIA<br />
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LIKE NO OTHER<br />
A PERFECT SETTING FOR<br />
EXCLUSIVE LIVING<br />
Perched dramatically on a Houlakia cliff, The Cape is an exquisite<br />
Mykonos residence with breathtaking Aegean Sea views. Every<br />
detail harmonises with the island’s culture, landscape, and<br />
architecture, creating a tranquil sanctuary of relaxed luxury.<br />
Offers in the region of Euro 33,500,000<br />
To learn more about The Cape, Mykonos, please visit:<br />
thecapemykonos.com<br />
VIEWING BY APPOINTMENT ONLY<br />
SAVILLS<br />
Fani Dritsa<br />
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THE SMART GUIDE<br />
an unspoiled swathe of land,<br />
(lesdomainesdefontenille.<br />
on rattan furnishings and<br />
experience of Menorcan rural<br />
designed to be a soothing<br />
com) offers a more refined<br />
airy, sunlit rooms. Among<br />
life at Torre Vella, a 17-key<br />
back-to-nature experience<br />
atmosphere at Santa Ponsa,<br />
the dining options are an<br />
finca, where the bohemian<br />
for guests. Decorated in<br />
with 22 rooms and suites<br />
outdoor Sunday barbecue in<br />
décor melds perfectly with<br />
monochromatic tones using<br />
ensconced in a former 17th-<br />
the garden and a delicious<br />
the natural surrounds, and<br />
reclaimed wood, stone, clay<br />
century palace adorned<br />
local version of caldereta de<br />
the resident goats, horses<br />
and natural textiles, its mood<br />
with palms, giant fig trees<br />
langosta (lobster stew). The<br />
and donkeys are as much a<br />
is decidedly understated. The<br />
and exotic flora. Its slightly<br />
same French hotel group<br />
part of the experience as the<br />
zen-like farmstead practises<br />
colonial interior design relies<br />
also provides an immersive<br />
sumptuous accommodation.<br />
regenerative agriculture,<br />
growing a rich selection of<br />
produce that is reflected<br />
in the seasonal menu, with<br />
spring vegetable salads,<br />
grilled carrots and maitake<br />
mushrooms sharing space<br />
next to plates of homemade<br />
focaccia, local ricotta and<br />
Menorcan lamb.<br />
To experience island<br />
hospitality through<br />
a different lens, Les<br />
Domaines de Fontenille<br />
SUNNY SIDE UP<br />
Clockwise from top:<br />
the crystal clear<br />
Menorcan waters;<br />
Son Net; inside<br />
Torre Vella<br />
YANN DERET<br />
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TIP OF THE HAT<br />
From top: Menorca<br />
Experimental’s design features;<br />
the exterior of Son Vell<br />
For a change of pace,<br />
there is the Menorcan<br />
capital of Mahón and the<br />
boutique hotel Can Alberti<br />
1740 (hotelcanalberti.com),<br />
an ideal base camp from<br />
which to explore the city. For<br />
culturally minded travellers,<br />
Mahón offers one of Spain’s<br />
Compared to its hyped-up<br />
neighbour Ibiza, Formentera<br />
has a more relaxed feel and<br />
an abundance of pristine<br />
beaches where sunseekers<br />
can wet their feet in the<br />
waves while taking a leisurely<br />
stroll. Here, the brandnew<br />
Dunas de Formentera<br />
oldest opera houses – which<br />
(dunasdeformentera.com)<br />
also hosts concerts – as<br />
pampers guests with 45<br />
well as galleries organising<br />
rooms and suites dressed<br />
contemporary art and<br />
up in a look best described<br />
photography exhibitions. The<br />
as modernist cabana and<br />
14-room property occupies<br />
with a prime location that is<br />
a 18th-century building<br />
steps away from the island’s<br />
in the heart of downtown.<br />
longest strip of sand. As<br />
Its elegant surroundings<br />
you nibble on grilled fish<br />
were once the home of the<br />
from the hotel’s wood-fired<br />
Alberti clan, one of the<br />
oven, with the waves lapping<br />
island’s prominent families<br />
rhythmically nearby, you’ll<br />
and whose coat of arms still<br />
begin to entertain thoughts<br />
adorns the building’s façade.<br />
of making the Balearics a<br />
Should you feel the urge<br />
regular port of call.<br />
for sand between your toes,<br />
Palma de Mallorca Airport;<br />
KAREL BALAS<br />
a quick hop over to the<br />
island of Formentera will<br />
provide the perfect therapy.<br />
Mahón Menorca Airport; Ibiza<br />
Airport, then boat transfer to<br />
Formentera<br />
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THE SMART GUIDE<br />
RAISING THE BAR<br />
What to savour and where best to sample it<br />
– a guide to the spirit (and wine) world<br />
Safe Space<br />
For whisky lovers, Speyside in Scotland is a must-visit –<br />
the home of fabled distilleries producing some of the most<br />
desired bottlings of the “water of life”. It’s an experience<br />
now enhanced by Chivas Brothers unlocking The Vault,<br />
its inspired tasting room dedicated to 14 casks of its<br />
high-class Scottish whiskies. Housed in the Strathisla<br />
distillery, The Vault is a sensory journey par excellence into<br />
the world of whisky, beginning with a tour of the iconic<br />
establishment and ending with a bespoke tasting of some<br />
of the most remarkable drams that the region has to offer.<br />
chivasbrothersvault.com<br />
JOHN PAUL<br />
Taste Sensation<br />
BRAVE NEW WORLD<br />
Founded in 1749, Justerini & Brooks is Britain’s oldest continuous fine wine and spirits merchants, yet one<br />
that belies its old age to keep up with the times. Its latest venture, which also marks its 275th anniversary,<br />
is to open a boutique and tasting room in London’s famed Burlington Arcade. Set over three floors, the<br />
venue is a testimony to the dedication the firm has shown to celebrating the finest elixirs the grape and the<br />
grain have to offer. The tour de force is the sumptuous first-floor lounge where a fine wine selection by the<br />
glass allows guests the optimum tasting experience. justerinis.com<br />
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THE SMART GUIDE<br />
States of Mind<br />
Sustainable Excellence<br />
Known for its additive-free tequilas from the<br />
highlands of Jalisco, Mexican brand Mijenta has<br />
produced two new expressions to tantalise the<br />
taste buds: The Cristalino (left) and the Añejo<br />
Gran Reserva (above). The latter, aged in four<br />
bespoke casks – American white oak, French<br />
oak, acacia and cherry – is its premium product.<br />
mijenta-tequila.com<br />
The third mezcal in the Clase Azul<br />
collection stays true to its roots<br />
and is named after the region the<br />
green agave from which it is made<br />
originates – the Mexican state of<br />
San Luis Potosí (or more exactly the<br />
small village of Estación Ipiña.)<br />
claseazul.com<br />
Fine Vintage<br />
Located on the banks of<br />
the Tay, Aberfeldy is a<br />
distillery of distinction, and<br />
one that is embellished by<br />
its keeness to innovate.<br />
Never has this been more<br />
apparent than in the 21-<br />
Year Malbec Cask Finish,<br />
a whisky finished in wine<br />
casks from Argentina.<br />
aberfeldy.com<br />
Global Power<br />
For its spring release the<br />
wine and spirits merchant<br />
Berry Bros. & Rudd is<br />
championing whiskies from<br />
such disparate places<br />
as Sweden and Guyana,<br />
alongside bottles from<br />
the spiritual homeland,<br />
like this single malt from<br />
Craigellachie, the Speyside<br />
distillery. bbrspirits.com<br />
Whisky Reboot<br />
Also a Speyside regular of renown, Longmorn is enhancing its<br />
reputation with a makeover of its familiar bottlings. Encased<br />
in a new-look design, these releases of 18-Year-Old and<br />
22-Year-Old single batch whiskies are both matured primarily<br />
in American oak casks. longmorn.com<br />
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MONACO: A DESTINATION LIKE NOWHERE ELSE<br />
Iconic venues and unforgettable experiences offer alluring opportunities in the Principality<br />
IMAGINE A LIMOUSINE WAITING FOR YOU as soon<br />
as you get off your plane, ready to start your neverto-be-forgotten<br />
time in Monaco.<br />
Select from timeless luxury suites and live your<br />
life to the fullest. Treat yourself at the iconic Hôtel<br />
de Paris Monte-Carlo, where the two-level Princess<br />
Grace’s suite awaits you. It’s an extraordinary<br />
setting with a manicured garden, a heated infinity<br />
pool and 180-degree sea views.<br />
Discover a fine example of Haute Couture in<br />
one of the Diamond Suites Collection at the Belle<br />
Époque Hermitage Monte-Carlo. A perfect setting to<br />
create your unique story.<br />
Or maybe switch off at the Suite Sunshine on the<br />
top floor of the Monte-Carlo Beach Hotel, where<br />
you can relax fully on your private roof terrace with<br />
unparalleled views of Monaco.<br />
You can also indulge yourself in the Suite Carré d‘Or<br />
at Hotel Metropole Monte-Carlo, which features a<br />
sprawling roof terrace, a place to enjoy some muchneeded<br />
downtime. The Principality always goes above<br />
and beyond to create special moments to share.<br />
Top image: Hotel Metropole Monte-Carlo, photo credit Will Pryce; bottom images from left to right: Monte-Carlo Beach Hotel, Hôtel de Paris Monte-Carlo, Hôtel Hermitage Monte-Carlo, photo credit Monte-Carlo Société des Bains de Mer.
THE SMART GUIDE<br />
THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT<br />
At home or away, the show will always go on<br />
Wooden Heart<br />
Utilising Japanese craftsmanship – and kurogaki,<br />
or persimmon, wood – Audio-Technica’s ATH-AWKG<br />
headphones combine the latest technology with<br />
a material revered for its unique black pattern and<br />
hard-wearing properties. The superlative design<br />
showcases Audio-Technica’s excellent sound<br />
engineering, with the set complemented by a sleek<br />
storage box also made with kurogaki detail.<br />
audio-technica.com<br />
Live in the Valley<br />
The beautiful Hudson Valley town of<br />
Chatham is home to The Garage, a venue<br />
where classical music, jazz, theatre,<br />
dance and more can be found in an<br />
atmosphere that aims to recreate a 19thcentury<br />
salon. For the summer season<br />
this eclectic array includes The Waste<br />
Land project – a reading of TS Eliot’s<br />
poems with original music by Thomas Bo,<br />
a show by Grammy-nominated foursome<br />
PUBLIQuartet (above), and pianist Taka<br />
Kigawa performing Olivier Messiaen’s<br />
rarely heard masterpiece Quartet for the<br />
End of Time. thegarageatchatham.com<br />
Aural Style<br />
Fashion and functionality merge<br />
superbly in the latest limitededition<br />
product from Bose. The<br />
US company has teamed up with<br />
New York fashion brand Kith,<br />
for the Kith for Bose Ultra Open<br />
Earbuds, which feature a cuffshaped<br />
design and the Kith name<br />
replicated in the iconic style of<br />
the audio manufacturer’s logo.<br />
bose.com<br />
Audio Dynamite<br />
The advancement in home entertainment systems<br />
takes a great step forward with Denon’s AVC-<br />
X6800H, a receiver that raises the in-home audio<br />
experience to another level thanks to immersive<br />
Dolby Atmos, DTS:X, IMAX Enhanced and Auro 3D.<br />
For video, it offers seven HDMI inputs supporting<br />
8K video. denon.com<br />
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THE SMART GUIDE<br />
Sound Spectacle<br />
High-end Danish audio goods firm Bang &<br />
Olufsen has long associated sound with<br />
art, so a collaboration with Grammy Awardwinning<br />
bassist MonoNeon is spot on. The<br />
artist and musician is renowned for his<br />
colourful outfits, fittingly reflected in the<br />
astonishing Beosound A9, that draws on<br />
MonoNeon’s trademark costumes, which<br />
incorporate patchwork embroidery in their<br />
intricate design. The Memphis-born musician<br />
interprets art as music – this speaker<br />
attempts the reverse. bang-olufsen.com<br />
Art of Writing<br />
Water Sport<br />
Austrian artist Gustav Klimt was one of the<br />
leading pioneers of avant-garde movement<br />
and as such a perfect subject for Montblanc’s<br />
latest Masters of Art Homage limited-edition<br />
pens. With particular emphasis on Klimt’s<br />
gold-infused paintings, the piece pairs<br />
translucent blue lacquer and yellow goldcoated<br />
hammered metal references, while<br />
a green spinnel evokes a sense of spring.<br />
montblanc.com<br />
The height of speed and sophistication on the<br />
oceans, the Nano 720 Xtreme from iAqua is<br />
a gamechanger. Weighing a remarkable 22kg,<br />
it is capable of going from 0-100kph in just<br />
3.8 seconds. Made from carbon fibre, which<br />
adds strength to its impressive speed, the<br />
Nano also has a certain sense of style with its<br />
uber-modern design created to catch the eye.<br />
iaquawatercraft.com<br />
The Right Notes<br />
Delving into the lives and times of three generations of<br />
musicians Deep Inside the Blues: Photographs and Interviews<br />
is a comprehensive history of a fascinating period in music. The<br />
photographer and oral historian Margo Cooper captures the spirit<br />
of an age through 160 images and interviews with 34 major figures,<br />
including Bo Diddley, Honeyboy Edwards, B. B. King and Pinetop<br />
Perkins. margocopper.com<br />
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stunning countryside that sits on the Andalucian coastline. With some of Europe’s finest<br />
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Nested on a gorgeous private sandy beach, Porto Zante Villas<br />
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NOTES FROM NETJETS<br />
Latest happenings, onboard updates,<br />
companywide news and profiles<br />
JULIAN RENTZSCH<br />
INSIDE TRACK<br />
PETE RICHARDS<br />
EVP, Chief Financial Officer<br />
WHEN DID YOU START AT NETJETS?<br />
I just celebrated my 25-year anniversary<br />
with NetJets. I spent my first seven years<br />
out of college at a public accounting firm.<br />
NetJets was one of my clients and offered<br />
me a job, which I started in October of<br />
1998. At the time I was hired as Corporate<br />
Controller, NetJets had only approximately<br />
140 aircraft under management, compared<br />
to the 1,000 we have now.<br />
WHAT DOES YOUR NORMAL DAY<br />
CONSIST OF? Normal days don’t really<br />
exist, but I do have months that can be<br />
more predictable based on the time of<br />
year. I oversee the financial affairs of<br />
the global organisation, which includes<br />
teams in Lisbon, Portugal, Cincinnati,<br />
Ohio, and our headquarters in Columbus.<br />
My responsibilities include monthly,<br />
quarterly and annual reporting of financial<br />
results to our shareholders and our<br />
Board of Directors, financial forecasting,<br />
hosting a financial business review<br />
each week with our global leaders, and<br />
managing the budget and 10-year plan<br />
for the company. In addition to these<br />
financial responsibilities, as a member<br />
of the Executive Leadership Team, I am<br />
also involved in the overall strategy and<br />
leadership of the business.<br />
WHAT IS THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE<br />
YOU FACE IN YOUR ROLE? How to<br />
balance opportunity with appropriate risk<br />
management. Growing in a fiscally prudent<br />
and responsible way is challenging because<br />
we only grow with safety and service<br />
prioritised. We must be compliant and<br />
controlled so we can continue building a<br />
business for all economic conditions.<br />
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NOTES FROM NETJETS<br />
NETJETS BY THE NUMBERS<br />
<strong>2024</strong> AT-A-GLANCE<br />
60+ YEARS LEADING PRIVATE AVIATION<br />
NETJETS IS THE LONGEST-STANDING PRIVATE AVIATION PROVIDER,<br />
WITH A PROVEN BUSINESS MODEL AND RESOLUTE FINANCIAL STRENGTH<br />
THAT CONTINUE TO PROPEL US TO THE FOREFRONT OF THE INDUSTRY<br />
1,000 AIRCRAFT WORLDWIDE<br />
WE OWN AND OPERATE THE WORLD’S LARGEST,<br />
MOST DIVERSE PRIVATE JET FLEET<br />
OVER 95% OF OWNERS STAY WITH NETJETS YEAR AFTER YEAR<br />
AND OVER 20% HAVE FLOWN WITH US FOR MORE THAN 10 YEARS.<br />
100+ EXCEPTIONAL EVENTS ANNUALLY<br />
WE INVEST IN EXPERIENCES THAT ELEVATE OUR OWNERS’ LIFESTYLE AND<br />
ENHANCE THEIR PASSION FOR TRAVEL, FOOD AND WINE, MUSIC AND PREMIER<br />
SPORTS, SUCH AS GOLF, EQUESTRIAN SPORTS, TENNIS AND MOTORSPORTS<br />
12+ NETJETS SERVICE HUBS<br />
STRATEGICALLY LOCATED FACILITIES ENABLE PROACTIVE MAINTENANCE,<br />
DETAILING AND STOCKING OF EACH AIRCRAFT EVERY THREE TO FOUR DAYS<br />
25,000+ FLIGHTS WITH PETS<br />
WE CARED FOR THOUSANDS OF PET PASSENGERS,<br />
INCLUDING NEARLY 7,000 DOGS, IN 2023<br />
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NOTES FROM NETJETS<br />
JULIAN RENTZSCH<br />
management Pilot (chief Pilot). Great to<br />
experience and I gained knowledge very<br />
quickly.<br />
THE ONE DAY AT NETJETS I WON’T<br />
FORGET WAS… the first day of “INDOC” in<br />
the Lisbon office, the people all very friendly<br />
and professional. I felt at home from day one.<br />
Now after almost six years in the company, I<br />
feel part of this “family”.<br />
ONE THING OWNERS PROBABLY<br />
WOULDN’T GUESS ABOUT ME IS… when I<br />
was 18 years old (just had my driver’s licence)<br />
I was living in South Carolina for just over six<br />
months for flight training. When i came back<br />
to the Netherlands I met my wife and we are<br />
still strong together after 24 years.<br />
IN SERVICE<br />
RUTGER DE BRUIN<br />
Pilot, Phenom 300<br />
MY FIRST EXPOSURE TO FLYING WAS…<br />
when I was still a young boy. My parents<br />
took me to Schiphol Amsterdam Airport<br />
to look at planes taking off and landing. I<br />
found this a fascinating sight that started<br />
my interest in aviation. Later my parents<br />
arranged a “first” flight in a single engine<br />
aircraft, I was sold on flying.<br />
ON MY DAYS OFF I… enjoy spending time<br />
with my wife, Linda, and my two lovely kids,<br />
Fleur and Xavier. Going outdoors, taking my<br />
family to the zoo and museums. My family<br />
and I love to travel in our time off – beach<br />
walks and going to France. The USA is also a<br />
favourite. To see a lot of the world and teach<br />
our kids about the cultures. I enjoy making<br />
memories with my family.<br />
WITHIN THE NEXT YEAR I WOULD LIKE<br />
TO… cross the 10,000 flight hours in my<br />
logbook and continue enjoying life at<br />
NetJets and at home. I’m currently training to<br />
be a line training captain on the Phenom.<br />
THE BEST PART OF FLYING IS… being<br />
able to control a very complex and modern<br />
machine through the sky, seeing the<br />
world below you passing by together with<br />
professional and nice colleagues next to you.<br />
The best office view in the world!<br />
BEFORE JOINING THE NETJETS TEAM,<br />
I WAS… flying professionally already for<br />
14 years – flying aircraft like the Fokker 50<br />
and BAe AVRO RJ 85 for regional airlines.<br />
I became an instructor in the Simulator<br />
for some years together with a role as a<br />
WITHIN THE NEXT 10 YEARS, I WOULD<br />
LIKE TO... keep on pushing myself to<br />
develop my own skills further and contribute<br />
more towards the training environment – this<br />
is a very rewarding role.<br />
AS A CREWMEMBER I’M VERY PROUD<br />
OF… being part of the NetJets team, with<br />
high safety standards and a passion for<br />
flying. All the safe and efficient flights I<br />
have performed together with all my<br />
colleagues over the years and hopefully<br />
years to come.<br />
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The Palm Beaches, a newly opened golfing<br />
community in Florida designed to please pros and part-timers alike,<br />
has benchmark luxury down to a tee // By Larry Olmsted<br />
EVAN SCHILLER<br />
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GREEN DEAL<br />
The Big Cat offers<br />
much for pros and<br />
amateurs alike<br />
THE PALM BEACHES has long been a draw for professional<br />
athletes, especially golfers, many of whom make their homes<br />
in gated golf communities here. But surprisingly, considering<br />
the area’s popularity, favourable weather, tax advantages<br />
and easy access to airports, there has not been a notable<br />
new luxury golf and lifestyle community opened in nearly two<br />
decades. That all changed last autumn with the high-profile<br />
debut of Panther National, which puts a modern and European<br />
spin on the concept, thanks to developer Dominik Senn.<br />
While certainly a golf lover, Senn, who hails from Switzerland,<br />
has a considerably different athletic background. A former<br />
professional alpine ski racer, he is now the CEO and chairman<br />
of 4sports & Entertainment AG, which represents pro athletes<br />
in skiing, tennis, hockey, soccer and golf, with his clients<br />
including numerous PGA TOUR players and Major champions.<br />
When it came time to design a new golf course as the anchor<br />
amenity for Panther National, Senn didn’t pull any punches.<br />
The result is The Big Cat, a world-first co-designed by the<br />
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“ experience<br />
The course can host the best players in the world while<br />
at the same time offering a very playable, enjoyable<br />
for all members – families included<br />
biggest Major winner in history, legendary longtime Palm Beach<br />
resident Jack Nicklaus, and NetJets Brand Ambassador, former<br />
World No 1, PGA TOUR star (and two-time PGA Championship<br />
winner) Justin Thomas.<br />
Given that some of the Panther National members will be pros,<br />
it makes sense that the layout stretches to 7,300m from the<br />
tips, and it appears to now be the longest golf course in Florida.<br />
For mere mortals, multiple tees go all the way down to just over<br />
4,000m, with choices for all abilities. This level of options is<br />
rare and means that the course can host the best players in the<br />
world while at the same time offering a very playable, enjoyable<br />
experience for all members – families included.<br />
But while Panther National also has a short course and<br />
world-class practice facilities, the 180ha community is<br />
about more than just golf. It abuts a 970ha natural preserve<br />
and has over 16 kilometres of trails running through the<br />
property. The Panther National Clubhouse, meanwhile, will<br />
house four distinctly varied dining venues catering to all<br />
tastes and occasions, with a European culinary influence, and<br />
include a health-conscious option juice bar and coffee shop,<br />
sophisticated café and fine-dining restaurant with wine bar<br />
and a large cellar collection.<br />
The Racquet Center is top notch, with tournament-quality<br />
clay tennis courts, as well as indoor and outdoor courts for<br />
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indoor<br />
The high-tech Panther National Golf Performance<br />
Training Center has three bays featuring shot tracing<br />
and video technologies, a custom club fitting centre,<br />
putting lab, and a café<br />
ultra-popular pickleball and padel, the fast-growing downsized<br />
tennis alternative. The Panther National Lifestyle Club and<br />
Wellness Center (opening 2027) will include a community pool<br />
with pool bar and cabanas, a fitness lap pool, state-of-theart<br />
training gym, and spa with treatment rooms, sauna and<br />
steam baths. Additionally, the golf clubhouse has its own spa<br />
facilities and large men’s and women’s locker rooms with sauna<br />
and steam room.<br />
The golf course is, naturally, the star attraction, and it<br />
debuted in November 2023 with an appropriately star-studded<br />
match befitting Senn’s professional golf connections, including<br />
Rickie Fowler, Xander Schauffele, Morgan Hoffmann, Erik van<br />
Rooyen and Lexi Thompson alongside co-designer Thomas.<br />
Given his alpine background, Senn was unimpressed with the<br />
flat courses all around him after moving to Palm Beach Gardens,<br />
and envisioned something with hills and elevation changes,<br />
something distinctly un-Floridan. Thanks to the use of a lot of<br />
heavy equipment, the course has significant elevation changes<br />
and rolling terrain, especially by Florida standards, in addition<br />
to its widely varied tee lengths.<br />
“As a former skier, I think very much in landforms,” says<br />
Senn. “With Panther National, I wanted to create something<br />
very special with Jack and Justin. So, we have moved almost<br />
three million cubic yards of earth to shape a championship<br />
course with a links style. We blended dramatic holes with lakes<br />
and the look of the neighbouring nature preserve.”<br />
SAND, SUN AND FUN<br />
Bunkers at the Big Cat<br />
offer a different challenge<br />
to usual Nicklaus courses<br />
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HOME FROM HOME<br />
The clubhouse at<br />
Panther National<br />
© PANTHER NATIONAL<br />
Thomas’s well-known admiration for bump-and-run shots<br />
factors in the links-like way the routing plays, and while<br />
Nicklaus has a penchant for elaborate, shapely bunkering,<br />
these play more on the sides here, while many approach shots<br />
into the green were left open in front, as in the British and Irish<br />
courses, but an aesthetic uncommon in this region. “From the<br />
start, the vision was clear – to create a golf experience unlike<br />
any other found in South Florida,” says 18-time Major champion<br />
Nicklaus. “Every opportunity to design a golf course brings<br />
challenges, but in the case of Panther National, uniqueness<br />
triumphs. You won’t find any golf course remotely close to it<br />
in South Florida.”<br />
There is also a nine-hole par-3 short course, PANTHER9,<br />
with holes ranging from 90 to 150 yards and featuring the<br />
same style of approach shots players will encounter on the<br />
championship course. It also includes an island green homage<br />
to Florida’s most famous hole, the par-3 17th at TPC Sawgrass.<br />
Inspired by the famed Himalayas Putting Course at Scotland’s<br />
St Andrews, the Panther National Putting Course uses greenquality<br />
real grass and was also designed by Nicklaus.<br />
There is also the high-tech Panther National Golf<br />
Performance Training Center, with three bays featuring shot<br />
tracing and video technologies, a custom club fitting centre,<br />
indoor putting lab and a café. The Center anchors an extensive<br />
practice area that also includes a range with target greens of<br />
course-quality Zoysia grass, so players can see how their wedge<br />
shots actually bounce, spin and stop upon landing. This setup<br />
creates the feeling of having different length “par threes” to<br />
aim at on the range, each sized to match PGA Tour average<br />
shot distances, to make practice more realistic. A U.S. Open<br />
width fairway, just 27 yards wide, runs through the centre of<br />
the range, offering players the opportunity to build confidence<br />
for taking on the Big Cat. The adjacent Short Game Practice<br />
Area includes greens and bunkers for pitches, chips and bunker<br />
shots. Finally, there is The AimPoint Putting Green, the first<br />
in Florida, with AimPoint’s precise green-reading system to<br />
improve putting accuracy.<br />
Panther National is a residential community, and ownership<br />
opportunities include 218 properties, a mix of Signature<br />
Estates designed by acclaimed Florida architect Max Strang<br />
and owner-built Custom Estates. Strang is known for both<br />
his modernist, sleek style and his approach to sustainability<br />
and stewardship, which fits the sensitive natural environment<br />
surrounding the property. The Signature Estates are offered<br />
in several semi-custom models, from three- to five-bedrooms.<br />
All have private pools, outdoor kitchens and two to four car<br />
garages with golf-cart parking and electric car charging<br />
units. The Custom Estate lots either have golf course views or<br />
overlook the nature preserve panthernational.com<br />
North Palm Beach County Airport: 14 miles<br />
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YES,<br />
YOU<br />
CAN!<br />
Travelling can offer up temptations<br />
for changing food choices, but<br />
sticking to a healthy diet can reap<br />
long-term benefits, according to<br />
the experts at Mayo Clinic<br />
JÖRN KASPUHL<br />
WHILE IT MAY not always seem like it, busy people – like<br />
NetJets Owners – do have time to eat a healthy diet.<br />
“Don’t underestimate your ability to make changes,”<br />
says Donald Hensrud, MD, internal medicine physician who<br />
specialises in healthy living and nutrition with the Mayo Clinic<br />
Executive Health Program.<br />
When Dr Hensrud and his colleague Warren Thompson, MD,<br />
also an internal medicine physician within the Mayo Clinic<br />
Executive Health Program, lay out the facts to support healthier<br />
food choices, participants in the Mayo Clinic Executive Health<br />
Program have paid attention and made changes.<br />
“People who eat a healthy diet are more likely to live longer<br />
lives and be free of heart disease, cancer and diabetes than<br />
people who do not,” says Dr Thompson, whose practice focuses<br />
on preventive medicine.<br />
And here’s more motivation. People who follow a healthy<br />
diet, along with good physical activity, sufficient sleep, use of<br />
alcohol in moderation (one drink a day or less), not smoking,<br />
and keeping weight within normal limits, can expect to live 12<br />
to 15 years longer than those who do none of these things.<br />
And understandably, this isn’t new information. The benefits<br />
of making healthy food choices have been well studied and well<br />
reported for decades. But when you’re travelling and don’t have<br />
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“ people<br />
People who eat a healthy diet are<br />
more likely to live longer lives than<br />
who do not<br />
Warren Thompson, MD, internal medicine physician with the Mayo<br />
Clinic Executive Health Program<br />
JULIAN RENTZSCH (2)<br />
access to a kitchen or to your favourite healthy restaurant,<br />
how can one stay in step with a healthy lifestyle?<br />
As a frequent traveller, you may have some challenges – a<br />
packed schedule and eating out frequently – to consider as<br />
you make changes in your food choices. Start by making small,<br />
sustainable changes and build from there.<br />
HERE ARE SOME STARTER TIPS:<br />
- Begin in the morning: Breakfast can be the easiest meal<br />
of the day to change. Switching from bacon and eggs to a<br />
whole-grain cereal with non-fat or low-fat milk and a piece of<br />
whole- grain toast is a great start.<br />
- On the go: Keep fruit or nuts in your bag so you always have<br />
healthy snacks available.<br />
- Eating out: Eat a healthy snack before going to a restaurant,<br />
where it can be very difficult to select healthy options.<br />
- Limit alcohol: Enjoying carbonated or flavoured water can<br />
decrease alcohol consumption.<br />
- Eat what you enjoy: Eat more of the healthy foods that you<br />
like, rather than trying to eat healthy foods that aren’t your<br />
favourites.<br />
“Please remember that while weight is a good indicator, it’s<br />
not the most important one,” says Dr Thompson. “Health is the<br />
most important goal. Often when people decide to start moving<br />
more and eating better, they get frustrated when they don’t<br />
see immediate results, or they aren’t losing weight rapidly. I’d<br />
encourage those people to not focus as much on weight. Even<br />
if one is not losing weight, eating well and exercising make a<br />
big difference.<br />
“Even when people are overweight or mildly obese but eat<br />
well and exercise, they live longer than people who are thin and<br />
eat a poor diet and are not fit,” he continues.<br />
“Living a healthy lifestyle, including eating a healthy diet, is<br />
among the most important things we all can do for long-term<br />
health,” says Dr Hensrud. “Grab an apple instead of a candy<br />
bar. Skip the red meat entrée. Don’t order dessert. We all have<br />
time to make these changes.”<br />
“ things<br />
Living a healthy lifestyle, including eating<br />
a healthy diet, is among the most important<br />
we all can do for long-term health<br />
Donald Hensrud, MD, internal medicine physician with the<br />
Mayo Clinic Executive Health Program<br />
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ON LOCATION<br />
POSTCARDS FROM<br />
THE NORTH<br />
From the Norwegian fjords to Finnish Lapland, the Nordic nations offer<br />
some of the finest lodgings in which to relax, ruminate, and reconnect<br />
with nature. In the pages that follow, some of the stunning specimens and<br />
surrounds across the rooftop of Europe. // By Debbie Pappyn<br />
Photography by David De Vleeschauwer<br />
LITTLEISLAND LIGHTHOUSE, NORWAY<br />
FOR NEARLY 15 YEARS Elena Hansteensen reigned over this windswept island and lighthouse, her only companions the<br />
crashing waves and seabirds. Hansteensen had lived alone after buying Litløy Fyr, a 1912 lighthouse located in northern<br />
Norway’s Vesterålen archipelago, from the local government. That changed in 2020 when a skilled carpenter named Frode, now<br />
her partner, arrived on the island. Together, the pair have since woven magic into the once-lonely tower, turning it into a dreamy<br />
escape for guests, who can take advantage of Hansteensen’s abundant local knowledge as well as the island’s stormy beauty<br />
on a coastal tour aboard a RIB helmed by Frode. Inside, three private suites offer fireplaces and ocean views, set against a<br />
backdrop of Lofoten islands mountains. The newly opened lighthouse suite is the one to book. Spanning three levels, it features<br />
a lounge with crackling fire, and views of the star-studded sky from the glass-roofed top floor. littleislandlighthouse.com<br />
Stokmarknes Airport, then bus/boat transfer<br />
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VILLA ÅMOT, NORWAY<br />
DIPPED IN THE WILD beauty of Sunnfjord, midway between Bergen and Ålesund, Villa Åmot is a retreat of refined rural living. This<br />
historic farm, nurtured by the Sørli family for five generations, shed its working past in 2005 to become a cherished escape in the<br />
heart of one of Norway’s most remote regions. Gracious hosts Steinar Sørli and Yngve Brakstad have crafted seven luxurious suites<br />
across the barn, villa and lodge, each infused with its own distinct character and authentically decorated in warm, traditional rural<br />
style. A true country refuge, Villa Åmot is a favourite for groups of families and friends, who can explore the surrounding private<br />
fjords with no other tourists in sight. After a day in the wild, a heated wooden hot tub beckons, set in a secluded courtyard next to a<br />
verdant garden. Inside, abundant creature comforts are found in the magnificent dining area, serviced by a open-plan kitchen, and<br />
several snug lounge areas with grand fireplaces. Villa Åmot can be booked, staffed and catered, for up to 14 guests. amotnorway.com<br />
Bergen Airport: 112miles/180km<br />
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ELEVEN DEPLAR FARM, ICELAND<br />
THIS SECLUDED LODGE, nestled in the ultra-quiet Fjót Valley, was once a humble sheep farm, but is now considered the<br />
most luxurious hotel near the Arctic Circle. Deplar Farm offers 13 guest suites, each furnished in contemporary country<br />
style and boasting unparalleled views of the tranquil landscape, often snow-covered in winter and danced over by the aurora<br />
borealis. The traditional matte-black timber houses, with their vibrant green-turfed roofs, tell a story of the local area’s<br />
rural heritage, while expansive windows offer a modern accent and panoramic vistas of the valley. Deplar has geothermal<br />
indoor and outdoor pools, and guests can embrace their inner Viking in the sauna after a day of exhilarating escapades such<br />
as off-piste heli-skiing, and glacier explorations in winter and horseback adventures in summer. A minimum stay of three<br />
nights is required. elevenexperience.com<br />
Akureyri Airport: 55miles/89km (or via helicopter from Reykjavik Airport)<br />
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NIEHKU MOUNTAIN VILLA, SWEDEN<br />
ABOVE THE ARCTIC CIRCLE this 14-room hotel and heli-skiing haven has been created from a ruined old railway roundhouse<br />
in Riksgränsen. The former workshop provided service and maintenance to the steam locomotives which were the first to<br />
operate on Sweden’s legendary Iron Ore Line, transporting iron from north to south. Now protected as a piece of national<br />
heritage, it’s a luxury base for one of the finest off-piste skiing locations in Scandinavia. Around Niehku are 60 majestic peaks<br />
to explore, and skiing is even possible in late spring. Après-ski here is friendly, with a strong focus on gastronomy featuring<br />
fresh, regional ingredients from Sweden and Norway, washed down with libations from the old grease pit, which has been<br />
transformed into a stunning 500-bottle-strong wine cellar. While the setting is vintage industrial, the rooms are warm and<br />
snug, with some offering private patios. niehku.com<br />
Kiruna Airport: 86miles/138km<br />
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WOLF LODGE, NORWAY<br />
LOCATED IN POLAR PARK, the northernmost wildlife park in the world and one of the most admired, Wolf Lodge offers only a<br />
few annual stays per year, but in an atmpsphere of extreme privacy set deep within the quiet Arctic woods of northern Norway.<br />
Stig Sletten, also known as the wolf whisperer, is Polar Park’s master animal guardian and takes the lodge’s guests out as their<br />
private wildlife guide. The lodge has only three luxurious suites and a private lounge with panoramic windows overlooking the<br />
wolf enclosure. Activities include guided hikes, snowmobile races over frozen lakes, spending time with the wolves up close<br />
and personal – under expert supervision, of course – learning about conservation efforts and, if you’re lucky, experiencing the<br />
northern lights during winter as well as the midnight sun throughout the summer months. Lodge availability is limited to 15<br />
all-inclusive stays per year with a three-night minimum stay, so you may need to book well ahead. wolflodge.no<br />
Bardufoss Airport: 33miles/53km<br />
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NOMAD, GREENLAND<br />
WHILE ICELAND ATTRACTS millions of tourists each year, its “sister island” Greenland remains a hidden gem, with a<br />
breathtaking coast and glistening-white ice sheet largely untouched by crowds. Limited infrastructure, with many mini villages<br />
only accessible by helicopter, can pose obstacles for independent travellers, but this is where Danish-Greenlandic couple Jon<br />
and Anika Krogh have stepped in. In 2017, they opened two beautiful, mobile camps – Camp Saqqaq in Disko Bay and Camp<br />
Kiattua near the capital, Nuuk – providing luxury all-inclusive tented accommodation with private bathrooms, overlooking<br />
deep, quiet bays where small icebergs or whales can be spotted. From June to September, activities include iceberg safaris,<br />
hikes and explorations of Inuit culture. After each adventure, it’s all about unwinding in the hot tub and savouring homemade<br />
dishes served in the communal tipi tent. nomadgreenland.com<br />
Camp Saqqaq: Ilulissat Airport, then boat transfer/Camp Kiattua: Nuuk Airport, then boat or helicopter transfer<br />
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VILLA SÄIKKÄRÄ, FINLAND<br />
WHILE ROVANIEMI BUZZES with tourists, this private accommodation reveals Lapland’s hidden serenity. This traditionally<br />
built, three-story log house offers one of the most exclusive private retreats in the north. It boasts an impressive 16-foot-high<br />
living area with a natural stone fireplace and open kitchen. Eight ensuite bedrooms, decorated in a chic, rural Lappish style,<br />
are scattered throughout the main house. From here you can embark on excursions such as husky sledding, snowmobiling, ice<br />
fishing and introductions to the Sámi people and their reindeer. Other worthy ways to spend your time include reading a book<br />
by the open fire, relaxing on the spacious outdoor terrace with cosy cushions and reindeer skins, and unwinding after a 100%<br />
Finnish sauna experience in the unique fire hut. This exceptional structure also features a welcoming goahti room inspired by<br />
traditional Sámi dwellings with an open fireplace, a dressing room, and a covered outdoor terrace. villasaikkara.fi<br />
Rovaniemi Airport: 60miles/97km<br />
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ARCTIC BATH, SWEDEN<br />
VIGGO LUNDBERG<br />
IT’S QUITE LITERALLY about chilling out, Lapland-style, at Arctic Bath, frozen into the Lule River in Sweden’s far north like<br />
a captivating art installation. Inspired by the region’s timber-floating history, this circular spa transforms with the seasons. In<br />
winter, the wooden structure becomes one with the frozen, Lappish landscape and functions as the hotel’s central hub with spa,<br />
three saunas and two steaming hot tubs included. Come summer, it hovers above the calm waters, offering breathtaking riverside<br />
views when the midnight sun reflects on the clear water. The hotel comprises 12 cozy cabins, some suspended—or frozen—above<br />
the water, the other six villas perched on land. The highlight during winter is the cold water plunge in the Arctic Bath, honoring the<br />
Lappish tradition of braving freezing waters (maintained at a bracing 39F), followed by the comforting warmth of the treatments<br />
that utilize the local c/o Gerd brand, which are made with natural local products such as birch and blueberry. arcticbath.se<br />
Luleå Airport: 57 miles<br />
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HOTEL UNION ØYE, NORWAY<br />
THE SUNNMØRE ALPS ARE characterised by dramatic mountains and fairytale fjords, fed by cascading waterfalls and<br />
roaring rivers. Here, winding roads lead to tranquil villages with gingerbread houses and wildflower meadows – places such<br />
as Hjørundfjord, where you’ll find Hotel Union Øye, a historic jewel since 1891. Øye’s creaking floors whisper tales of Kaiser<br />
Wilhelm II, author Karen Blixen, explorer Roald Amundsen and more contemporary guests, too, now that it’s a Relais &<br />
Châteaux property of 38 rooms and suites, one of which (the Blue Room) the management will tell you is haunted. You can go<br />
backcountry skiing, or hike and bike in Norangsdalen, one of Norway’s most beautiful valleys. Après-ski and sundowners can<br />
be enjoyed on the terrace with waterfall views, or you might warm up by the historic fireplace before dinner served by staff in<br />
traditional attire. Here, dressing elegantly after adventures is still bon ton – adding to the timeless atmosphere. unionoye.no<br />
Ørsta-Volda Airport: 18miles/29km<br />
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HIGHLAND BASE, ICELAND<br />
WHEN A TRANSFER BECOMES an experience – this remote lodge is only accessible by a 4x4 vehicle that transports guests<br />
via a stunning three-hour route from Reykjavik to Kerlingarfjöll, a volcanic mountain range. Set amid central Iceland’s hardto-access<br />
highlands, at the meeting of two glaciers, sits Highland Base, the first luxury hotel in Iceland’s wild mountains.<br />
Launched by the Blue Lagoon group, Highland Base consists of a main building with 28 rooms and suites, and six lodges, each<br />
with grand floor-to-ceiling windows that reveal the raw beauty of the surrounding landscape. The two largest suites offer<br />
private terraces with soothing hot tubs, while underground passages transport guests to the inviting restaurant and bar or to<br />
the beautiful spa with geothermal baths and saunas. highlandbase.is<br />
Reykjavik Airport: 115miles/185km<br />
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BY THE BOOK<br />
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DAYS OF<br />
THEIR LIVES<br />
Reinventing the dusty image of the family<br />
biography, Legacy Literature is helping some<br />
of America’s most successful families pass<br />
down invaluable heritage and life lessons,<br />
beautifully bound and preserved for<br />
generations to come // By Emma Ventura<br />
IF GRIEF HAS one gift to give, it’s clarity. And when Rob<br />
Cocuzzo’s grandfather passed away in 2017, it hit him like a<br />
bullet. A journalist and author, Cocuzzo was in the middle<br />
of writing a book about his family heritage – The Road to San<br />
Donato: Fathers, Sons, and Cycling Across Italy – yet it took this<br />
loss for him to fully appreciate what it means to preserve the<br />
narratives of those most important in your life.<br />
“All the stories that I thought I knew verbatim were suddenly<br />
lost in the ether,” he says. “The way that he told them, the<br />
mannerisms, the characters – all these things I cherished as a<br />
kid were gone.”<br />
Then editor of the glossy N Magazine, which covers<br />
Nantucket, Massachusetts, and the enviable lifestyles of those<br />
who call it home, Cocuzzo was well versed in the process of<br />
distilling a person’s life story into a couple of thousand words<br />
or less – a challenge he describes as akin to “trying to do ballet<br />
in a phone booth”.<br />
“We assume so much of the people that raised us,” he says.<br />
“And we don’t ask them the questions that we ask other people.<br />
Yet, at the end of their lives, when they’re gone, you realise, I<br />
don’t really know what motivated this person, I don’t really know<br />
how they navigated those difficulties in their life.”<br />
In 2016, Cocuzzo had spoken about the power of legacy<br />
to a TEDx audience in Boston, in reference to extreme skier<br />
Doug Coombs, his childhood hero and subject of his biography<br />
Tracking the Wild Coomba. Cocuzzo was regularly interviewing<br />
and securing high-profile subjects for N Magazine, all of whom<br />
had richly textured stories of their success, and how they got<br />
there. But it took his wife, Emmy Award-winning television<br />
producer and personality Jenny Johnson, to suggest he put<br />
some shape to this passion.<br />
“She was the one who put the bee in my bonnet to pursue this,”<br />
says Cocuzzo, 37, who has wide-set eyes, barely tamed blond<br />
hair and the kind of open face that projects honesty. “She said,<br />
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BY THE BOOK<br />
“<br />
It’s a vivid recounting of a life, not a glorified Wikipedia<br />
page. We’re describing episodes and conversations,<br />
what the place smelled like, what the scenes were like,<br />
bringing them back in a very real and visceral way<br />
Rob Cocuzzo, founder and chief biographer, Legacy Literature<br />
‘You know, you’re in contact with all these interesting people,<br />
and you know how important it is to preserve legacy based on<br />
your experience with your own family.” What followed would lead<br />
to the founding of Legacy Literature, a storytelling brand for<br />
high-net-worth individuals looking to share their heritage, paths<br />
to success and life lessons for future generations – stories not<br />
bound for the bookstore or bestseller lists but produced in tiny<br />
print runs, intended purely for families and friends.<br />
Cocuzzo started working on one book a year, then two,<br />
juggling babies under one arm and a full-time job in the other.<br />
Through word of mouth, he wound up with a backlog of clients<br />
until, his bandwidth maxed out, he realised he needed to pull in<br />
more writers to work with him.<br />
These are not works of ghostwriting but vividly portrayed<br />
biographies. The process takes place over the course of a year,<br />
with weekly calls of an hour, during which the writer works<br />
chronologically through the subject’s life. “We start with the<br />
earliest childhood memory and work through different chapters,<br />
talking about the dynamics in the household,” says Cocuzzo.<br />
“What were their parents like? How did their parents meet? What<br />
was school like? Did they play on teams? Each time we start<br />
this process, it goes in all these different directions; there’s no<br />
formula, because everyone’s lived a unique life.”<br />
Among those unique lives is that of Sean McManus, who<br />
in April stepped down as chairman of CBS Sports. The son of<br />
renowned sports journalist Jim McKay, with nearly 50 years at<br />
the top of his game, McManus had long felt the urge to tell his<br />
family story but had neither the time nor the knowledge to do<br />
so. “I had no idea how to start the process,” he says. “And Rob<br />
was really the solution for that dilemma.”<br />
As anyone who’s ever attempted to write a book knows, having<br />
the idea is the tiniest part of what it takes. “I’m not sure how<br />
disciplined I would have been without those specific, focused<br />
appointments every week or 10 days,” admits McManus. “With<br />
everything I have going on in my life, Rob was a really important<br />
part of me being able to complete this process.”<br />
McManus wanted a book that would distill, as he puts it,<br />
“the integrity, honesty and generosity” passed down from his<br />
parents, as well as the professional legacy gifted by his father.<br />
“There’s no way to establish the historical context of my life<br />
without something like this,” he affirms. “It’s not just a glorified<br />
tribute to my life. It’s got some challenges in there that I faced<br />
throughout my career.”<br />
Concurrent to the weekly conversations, the Legacy Literature<br />
team interviews family members, friends, colleagues past and<br />
present, old teachers – anyone who can bring perspective to the<br />
different chapters. At the halfway point, generally around 100<br />
pages in, the manuscript is turned over to the client.<br />
“At that point, it’s kind of an out-of-body experience to<br />
read about yourself in the third person, because the way the<br />
books are written is narrative nonfiction,” says Cocuzzo. “It’s a<br />
vivid recounting of a life, not a glorified Wikipedia page. We’re<br />
describing episodes and conversations, what the place smelled<br />
like, what the scenes were like, bringing them back in a very real<br />
and visceral way.”<br />
For clients, downloading their lives, and lessons learned, onto<br />
a page can be both cathartic and meaningful. Paige Arnof-Fenn,<br />
founder and CEO of Massachusetts-based global marketing<br />
consultancy Mavens & Moguls, goes a step further. “It’s just<br />
kind of magical,” she says.<br />
Arnof-Fenn is leaning forward in her home-office chair,<br />
framed family photos perched on bookshelves in the background.<br />
“Wasn’t it John Lennon who said life’s what happens while you<br />
make other plans?” she asks rhetorically. “My life has turned<br />
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out so differently than I imagined. But you don’t spend a lot of<br />
time reflecting on your own choices, or your own decisions or<br />
your own life, how it’s unfolded.”<br />
She came to Legacy Literature after an aborted biographical<br />
project with a New York Times bestselling author didn’t work<br />
out – “she was looking for a big-ticket kind of story” – and a<br />
friend familiar with the Nantucket scene put her onto Cocuzzo:<br />
“He’d basically set up this business to do it in a very personal,<br />
intimate way – not for the glory of it, but for the personal<br />
experience. He has a process where it’s like pulling a string and<br />
he keeps unravelling these stories.”<br />
For Arnof-Fenn, the catalyst for the project was originally<br />
a desire to pass down stories of her much-loved parents and<br />
grandparents to her nieces and nephew, who’d never met them.<br />
“It’s not a cheap thing – it’s a six-figure commitment,” she<br />
says of her book, “but leaving kids a little bit more money isn’t<br />
going to change their life at all. Leaving them with these family<br />
stories, and how you came about your values, and how all the<br />
threads converge into making you who you are, and helping you<br />
achieve what you’ve achieved … It’s really priceless.”<br />
Not everyone is initially convinced that a book about their<br />
life is a good idea. Having received more than his fair share of<br />
books by former CEOs during his career, most of which have<br />
piled up unread in his bathroom, Chad Gifford came to Legacy<br />
Literature, in his own words, “fighting and scraping not to do<br />
it”.<br />
“I’ll never write a book about what it means to be a CEO<br />
or leadership guidelines or any of that stuff,” says the former<br />
Bank of America chairman. “So it wasn’t exactly in my DNA to<br />
do it.”<br />
Persuaded by his wife and daughters that he needed to<br />
reframe his thinking, and to meet with Cocuzzo, Gifford was<br />
won over by the Legacy Literature founder’s thoughtful,<br />
articulate demeanour.<br />
“I’m a little sheepish about talking about my exploits, be<br />
they minimal or maximal,” he says. “I feel like I am who I am<br />
because of what I did do or didn’t do. I was very grateful. And<br />
I loved my parents very much. But family trees didn’t intrigue<br />
me at all.”<br />
Gifford, says Cocuzzo, has the kind of humility typical of<br />
many of his clients, who at first don’t see the value of sharing<br />
their experiences, even when they amount to life-and-death<br />
situations.<br />
Among the stories that Cocuzzo has teased from Gifford<br />
is how he survived the sinking of the SS Andrea Doria in<br />
1956. Gifford was just 13 when the Italian liner collided with<br />
a Swedish ship, Stockholm, and went to the bottom off the<br />
coast of Nantucket. The result was a total of 51 fatalities. “I<br />
know it was quite an event but I don’t dwell on it much,” says<br />
Gifford. “Rob sort of made me rethink it and what an amazing<br />
experience that was, and obviously how lucky we were to get<br />
off the thing alive.”<br />
Of the industry leaders Cocuzzo has worked with, he credits<br />
Bill Bishop with giving him not just one of his early book deals,<br />
but the mentorship he needed. It was Bishop, a self-made<br />
businessman and entrepreneur who had worked his way up from<br />
the mailroom of a Mad Men-era Madison Avenue advertising<br />
agency – “the three-martini lunch was a real thing!” – who saw<br />
Cocuzzo’s potential, and persuaded him to make this kind of<br />
storytelling more than a side hustle.<br />
Bishop’s own remarkable story, set in a beautifully bound<br />
tome packed with photos from his family archives, tells of his<br />
rise from a lanky but hard-working kid to multibillionaire. “My<br />
dad walked out when I was five years old,” he says matterof-factly.<br />
“My mom raised me and my brother and we didn’t<br />
come up with anything. I did a lot of pick-and-shovel work. So<br />
I was thinking about my grandkids. And we decided it would<br />
be nice to have a book, something that they could look at over<br />
time, and realise that we were lucky, but we also worked very<br />
hard. And, you know, let’s respect people who are starting<br />
from nowhere because that’s where we really started from.”<br />
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Marking a new movement in watchmaking, independent horologists<br />
are finally gaining recognition for producing meticulously crafted,<br />
limited-edition timepieces of enduring beauty // By Chris Hall<br />
STATES OF INDEPENDENCE<br />
From top left: Simon Brette’s Chronomètre Artisans; Resurgence by J. N. Shapiro; Petermann Bédat’s Ref 1967;<br />
AdC8 by Atelier de Chronométrie; Sylvain Pinaud’s Origine<br />
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IN FEBRUARY, at a ceremony in Paris, a watchmaker by the<br />
name of Raúl Pagès (pageswatches.com) was awarded the<br />
inaugural Louis Vuitton Watch Prize for Independent Creatives.<br />
The biennial award celebrates excellence, innovation and knowhow<br />
in watchmaking, and marked something of a paradigm<br />
shift in the perception of the most traditional horological<br />
artisans, associating them for the first time with the glamour<br />
and global presence of a major luxury brand.<br />
Pagès has waited a long time for the recognition of his<br />
peers. His abilities, and his offbeat personality, have been well<br />
known to industry insiders and connoisseurs for a while – his<br />
debut into the horological world was a whimsical, intricate<br />
automaton in the shape of a tortoise – but in a way, his slow<br />
path to prominence is the story of independent watchmaking<br />
over the past 10 years.<br />
Since its revival in the 1990s, so-called “indie” watchmaking,<br />
which is more an appellation of spirit and principles than a<br />
statement about corporate ownership, has seen a few names<br />
evolve from artisanal beginnings to low-volume brands – the<br />
likes of F.P. Journe, Franck Muller, MB&F and Greubel Forsey<br />
being prime examples – but behind them exist dozens more.<br />
These are watchmakers that conform most closely to the<br />
mind’s-eye stereotype: men (they are all men) with loupes to<br />
their eyes and screwdrivers in hand, making masterpieces one<br />
by one. To many collectors, they represent the “real” watch<br />
world; not only do they make some of the most sought-after<br />
and exclusive watches, but for their innovative minds and<br />
technical prowess, they are often called upon by bigger brands<br />
to solve problems or improve existing movements.<br />
For a long time, these watchmakers were far removed<br />
from the limelight. The Académie Horlogère des Créateurs<br />
Indépendants (AHCI), something of an umbrella association<br />
for such craftsmen, was founded in 1987 but as recently as<br />
2016 relegated to a side room and surrounded by anonymous,<br />
low-end brands when it exhibited at the Baselworld industry<br />
fair. Since then, however, interest in its members has<br />
skyrocketed. Helped by the surge in watch collecting during<br />
the pandemic, names such as that of Rexhep Rexhepi, a<br />
Genevan watchmaking prodigy who emerged around the same<br />
time as his compatriot Pagès, are now mentioned in the same<br />
breath as indie stalwarts like Kari Voutilainen.<br />
This year, Rexhepi was on the judging panel for the Louis<br />
Vuitton prize, having collaborated with the maison in 2023 on<br />
a limited-edition chronograph. The emergence of Louis Vuitton<br />
as a patron of artisanal watchmaking may surprise those more<br />
familiar with its monogrammed luggage and leather goods,<br />
but LV’s watchmaking division acquired specialist workshop La<br />
Fabrique du Temps in 2011 and has been known to insiders as<br />
a serious investor in R&D for many years.<br />
As part of the prize, Pagès won a year’s mentorship with the<br />
lead watchmakers at the workshop. His winning watch, the RP1<br />
– Régulateur à détente, is not a fiesta of whirling tourbillons,<br />
skeletonised bridges and overcomplicated displays, as highend<br />
independent watchmaking is sometimes assumed to be.<br />
A modest, restrained design that fuses classical principles<br />
with a contemporary colour palette, it secured the judges’<br />
approval predominantly thanks to Pagès’ methodical solution<br />
to an age-old watchmaking problem: creating a reliable detent<br />
escapement. The method by which a watch’s spring-wound<br />
energy is disbursed, one second at a time, the escapement is a<br />
notoriously challenging area for innovation. No one can accuse<br />
the prize jury of prioritising style over substance.<br />
When the competition was announced in 2022, it received<br />
more than 1,000 entries; the attention given to the award has<br />
contributed to the growing appreciation of tiny, technically<br />
superlative watchmakers around the world. Among the four<br />
names alongside Pagès on the final shortlist were two whose<br />
star has risen dramatically in the past 18 months: Simon Brette<br />
(simonbrette.com) and Petermann Bédat (petermann-beadat.<br />
ch), the brand founded by watchmaking duo Gaël Petermann<br />
and Florian Bédat. Both were also honoured at the most recent<br />
GPHG awards – the watch industry’s largest awards ceremony<br />
– and both are posterboys for the decorative and technical<br />
sides of watchmaking.<br />
While even the most highly rated mainstream brands<br />
have gravitated towards more industrial, futuristic and<br />
angular modes of decoration, a small but influential subset<br />
of collectors have reaffirmed their love for all things gilded,<br />
polished and curved. Brette’s Chronomètre Artisans stands<br />
out for its hand-hammered gold dial surface, heat-blued<br />
steel hands and semi-openworked view of the gear train;<br />
turning the watch over reveals uniformly frosted surfaces,<br />
MASTERS AT WORK<br />
Facing page, top row from left: Sylvain Pinaud; Raúl Pagès’ Automaton Tortoise; the workshop of J.N. Shapiro;<br />
second row: Intricate workings from Petermann Bédat; the making of Raúl Pagès’ RP1 – Régulateur à détente; Simon Brette’s<br />
Chronomètre Artisans under construction; third row: Raúl Pagès at work; a Simon Brette initial drawing; Bernhard Lederer<br />
ALL IMAGES COURTESY OF THE WATCHMAKERS<br />
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mirror-polished components and rare “wolf-teeth” wheels,<br />
named for the curved profile of their teeth. Brette may be<br />
a debutant under his own name, but he has spent the past<br />
decade immersed in specialist movement suppliers and<br />
latterly working at MB&F, building such a reputation for<br />
himself that at the time of launch in April 2023, his watch<br />
had sold out for the next five years.<br />
At this level, a mastery of fine finishing – the catch-all term<br />
for meticulous hand-decoration – is obligatory, and every<br />
watchmaker’s reputation rises and falls with the sharpness,<br />
width and curvature of their bevelled edges. Makers such<br />
as Brette and Sylvain Pinaud (sylvain-pinaud.com) – another<br />
Swiss talent who has been attracting attention for his Origine<br />
and Chronograph pieces – draw from the Swiss-French<br />
traditional aesthetic; others, such as Petermann Bédat, whose<br />
monopusher split-seconds chronograph is an engineering tour<br />
de force, follow a more Germanic lineage with a contemporary<br />
twist (sans serif typography, a slick logo and instrument-style<br />
subdials). The watch won Best Chronograph at the 2023 GPHG,<br />
and one look at its glossy, serpentine, ruby-studded mechanism<br />
is enough to see why. Pinaud is another who cut his teeth<br />
working for other high-end indie names before going it alone,<br />
and drew plaudits for his chronograph, although, atypically,<br />
the real masterpiece is his time-only Origine, notable for its<br />
dial-side exposed balance wheel.<br />
Within the confines of watchmaking tradition, a range of<br />
styles still exists. Bernhard Lederer (ledererwatches.com),<br />
whose Central Impulse Chronometer debuted in 2021 and<br />
has one of the most captivating caseback views in years,<br />
straddles the divide between traditional and contemporary,<br />
with flawless finishing adorning a much more sci-fi-futuristic<br />
movement layout. Six years in the making, it is another that<br />
dares to tackle an alternative variety of escapement and is<br />
produced in editions of only 25 pieces. (It’s worth noting<br />
that none of the pieces mentioned here are produced in any<br />
greater quantities; many highly respected indie watchmakers<br />
produce fewer than 1,000 watches in their lifetimes, a number<br />
that would roll out of some mainstream manufacturers in a<br />
matter of hours.)<br />
As a consequence of the indie boom, respected brands<br />
have emerged and flourished outside of the historical centres<br />
of watchmaking. The US is home to several respected artisan<br />
firms, such as J.N. Shapiro (jnshapirowatches.com), whose handmachined<br />
engine-turned dials, beguiling in their tessellated<br />
complexity, are the equal of any in Switzerland. Japan is<br />
also nurturing a number of home-grown horological stars.<br />
For generations a passionate market for collectors, it is now<br />
developing the kind of artisanal watchmaking once associated<br />
purely with Geneva and its environs: one example being Hajime<br />
Asaoka (hajimeasaoka.com), an AHCI member since 2015 that<br />
marries mastery of the expected complications and techniques<br />
with an Art Deco sensibility.<br />
Back in Europe, you will find Atelier de Chronométrie<br />
(atelierdechronometrie.com), a Barcelona-based watchmaking<br />
workshop that restores and converts vintage watch movements<br />
rather than making its own from scratch; a different discipline,<br />
but a demanding one nonetheless. The results are spellbinding<br />
to any fan of watchmaking’s “golden era” of the 1940s and<br />
1950s – custom-built designs that elevate old favourites to<br />
heights rarely seen in their heyday.<br />
Among all these horological riches, one thing is clear:<br />
whether the focus is on looking backwards or into the future,<br />
there has never been a better time to explore the intricate<br />
world of independent watchmaking.<br />
TIMELESS<br />
J. N. Shapiro’s Three<br />
Movements Black<br />
© J.N. SHAPIRO WATCHES<br />
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Clockwise, from top left: PRAGNELL 1960s platinum cocktail ring by the House of Oscar Heyman, set with a Colombian emerald and<br />
diamonds MOUSSAIEFF white gold High Jewellery necklace set with Colombian emeralds, diamonds and rock crystal CHOPARD white<br />
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ADLER white gold ring set with a Zambian oval-cut emerald and diamonds BULGARI platinum necklace set with one octagonal Colombian<br />
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TURNING<br />
THE TABLES<br />
In the unpolished farming landscape of Castile-La Mancha, natural<br />
and agricultural riches have put a shine on the Spanish dining scene –<br />
including 11 Michelin stars and counting // By Devorah Lev-Tov<br />
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EVERY SPRING, in the small region of Castile-La Mancha, the<br />
Tagus river teems with elvers. Here lies some of central Spain’s<br />
most storied landscape – the ancient windmills made famous by<br />
Miguel Cervantes in Don Quixote, the walled city of Toledo. But at<br />
Restaurante Iván Cerdeño (ivancerdeño.com), the conversation<br />
is all about the baby eels on the plate.<br />
Elvers are considered a delicacy in much of the world,<br />
fetching up to $2,000 per pound on the global market, and at<br />
this two-Michelin-star restaurant inside the historic Cigarral<br />
del Ángel estate on the banks of the Tagus, it’s not hard to see<br />
why. One of more than 10 outstanding courses, they appear<br />
at the table draped over locally foraged morel mushrooms in<br />
a delicate broth.<br />
Toledo native Iván Cerdeño cooked at some benchmark<br />
restaurants, such as Pamplona’s Rodero, before returning to<br />
his hometown, and roots, in 2011. Local tradition looms large at<br />
Restaurante Iván Cerdeño; witness the recipes inspired by 16thcentury<br />
cookbook Libro de Guisados (Book of Stews) by Ruperto<br />
de Nola. Originally published in Toledo, it is the first known<br />
Castilian Spanish language cookbook and an important piece of<br />
the region’s history. For his tasting menu, Cerdeño modernised<br />
several of these recipes, such as sardines stuffed with red<br />
partridge and Senador’s hare, a local wild rabbit.<br />
“Castile-La Mancha is a very large and diverse territory, and<br />
surely it is this diversity that makes it special in the gastronomic<br />
field,” he says. “The culinary proposals in the different territories<br />
that compose [the region] are different – although there is a<br />
backbone, which is tradition. In general, the cuisine of Castile-<br />
La Mancha is based on its past and uses new techniques that<br />
allow us to develop the cuisine we are offering today.”<br />
Cerdeño is one of several young Castilian chefs taking<br />
on the mantle of the old guard, who cooked good food but<br />
never managed to make much of an impression beyond the<br />
immediate region.<br />
“The process of change has been very fast in recent years,”<br />
he explains. “Culinary references in our region were limited until<br />
recently to two great restaurants and two great chefs: Pepe<br />
Rodríguez and Manolo de la Osa. Nowadays there are more of<br />
us, very young people, in emerging kitchens with a great desire<br />
to do things well, who care about the product at its origin, to<br />
develop sustainable practices, and to try to do things a little<br />
better every day.<br />
“In the gastronomy of Castile-La Mancha, we have gone from<br />
just feeding people to making them enjoy our cuisine. Haute<br />
cuisine has reached many places in our region recently, but to<br />
do things better every day it is necessary to be respectful of<br />
those who have gone before us, because it only makes sense to<br />
talk about the cuisine of a territory if it is a reflection of what<br />
has always been done there.”<br />
Cerdeño’s establishment isn’t the only one making waves<br />
among the sleepy villages and farms of Castile-La Mancha. In<br />
fact, over the past five years or so, the region has become home<br />
to 11 Michelin-starred restaurants.<br />
While Spain is often spoken of as both a foodie paradise<br />
and the home of molecular gastronomy – think Barcelona, San<br />
Sebastián, and Madrid – rural Castile-La Mancha is not typically<br />
an area that’s mentioned. Yet this is where visitors can more<br />
easily book tables at undiscovered gems, such as Restaurante<br />
Iván Cerdeño, Ancestral (ancestralrestaurante.com), and Raíces<br />
(raicescarlosmaldonado.es), rather than fighting the masses for<br />
coveted reservations at places like Azurmendi and Arzak.<br />
Surely, it’s the region’s agricultural bounty that makes it such<br />
fertile ground for top-quality restaurants. Just outside of the<br />
walls of Toledo, farmland stretches for miles. Olive trees dot the<br />
landscape, fields of crocuses produce saffron and sheep farms<br />
are plentiful.<br />
Spain’s most famous cheese, manchego, is produced in<br />
Castile-La Mancha and is protected by a designation of origin.<br />
MAINS OF LA MANCHA<br />
Clockwise from top left:<br />
fine fish at Ancestral;<br />
its owner Víctor Gonzalo<br />
Infantes’s trademark fire<br />
cooking; pioneer chef Iván<br />
Cerdeño; a traditional<br />
marzipan dessert, typical<br />
of the region<br />
Previous pages, from left:<br />
part of a tasting menu<br />
from Restaurante Iván<br />
Cerdeño; inside Ancestral<br />
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“<br />
Carlos<br />
We now have more culinary techniques and training<br />
at our disposal, which, when applied to Castilian-<br />
Manchego cuisine, creates endless possibilities<br />
Maldonado, chef and co-owner of Raíces<br />
Like most farms in the region, the creamery Finca la Prudenciana<br />
(artequeso.com) is a family affair, owned and run by husband-andwife<br />
team Alfonso and Maria Álvarez Sánchez-Prieto, together<br />
with their children, Marta and Santiago, on the sheep farm that<br />
Alfonso’s parents bought in the 1950s. The picturesque property<br />
is where the small-batch Artequeso artisanal manchego cheeses<br />
are made, using raw milk from the family’s resident sheep, and<br />
aged on site for three to 12 months.<br />
Castile-La Mancha is the second largest olive oil-producing<br />
region in Spain, and a few miles away, in the heart of the Montes<br />
de Toledo, sits Finca La Pontezuela (lapontezuela.com), home<br />
to 18,000 olive trees growing five types of olives. Visitors to<br />
the family-owned and operated property can tour the endless<br />
olive groves and state-of-the-art oil mill before exploring the<br />
recently built visitors centre that features videos, interactive<br />
maps and visual guides that explain how olive oil is harvested<br />
and produced. Tours end with a blind tasting of the Pontezuela<br />
single-varietal 5 Elementos brand of olive oils, including one<br />
made with 100% redondilla, which proves smooth and flavourful,<br />
with a touch of spice.<br />
A couple of hours’ drive north takes you to Raíces, or “Roots”,<br />
which opened in 2017 and earned its Michelin star a few short<br />
years later, in 2020. Upon entering the intimate restaurant,<br />
guests see a large, whimsical mural on one wall, with a tiny open<br />
kitchen on the other side. A second room holds a handful of<br />
tables, fantastical chandeliers and white ceramic rooster and<br />
fish heads protruding from the walls.<br />
“The agricultural landscape is part of our DNA,” explains<br />
Carlos Maldonado, chef and co-owner of Raíces, who has lived<br />
his entire life in Castile-La Mancha. “We are history, agriculture,<br />
livestock and craftsmanship, and that is reflected in every<br />
corner of Castile-La Mancha. It’s a diamond in the rough with a<br />
rich culture and natural heritage, and we need to show the world<br />
the potential it can have if we polish this diamond.”<br />
Raíces boasts an elaborate tasting menu that shows off<br />
Maldonado’s complex techniques, demonstrating his Castilian<br />
roots while still being playful. Meals start with the appearance<br />
of a colourful multi-tiered tower filled with various canapés on<br />
each layer, and near the finale a dish featuring Maldonado’s<br />
son’s handprints holds a “pizza” course. This is actually one of<br />
the desserts, made with a meringue crust, bright red beet sauce,<br />
and white chocolate in place of cheese.<br />
Maldonado has seen his own restaurant mature over the<br />
past seven years alongside the rest of the culinary scene in the<br />
region. “The restaurants in Castile-La Mancha have evolved,<br />
become more professional, and have adapted to the needs<br />
of society,” he says. “We now have more culinary techniques,<br />
documentation, and training at our disposal, which, when applied<br />
to Castilian-Manchego cuisine, creates endless possibilities<br />
that restaurateurs are incorporating into their establishments.”<br />
Like Maldonado, many of the prestigious chefs in the region<br />
talk about the land with reverence. Victor Gonzalo Infantes,<br />
who cooked at one of the top restaurants in Madrid before<br />
returning to his home region to open Ancestral three years ago<br />
in the industrial town of Illescas, typically uses ingredients<br />
such as freshly caught river trout delivered each morning,<br />
wild cherry tomatoes foraged by his staff, and locally hunted<br />
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wild pigs. “[Castile-La Mancha] is a culinary gem because we<br />
depend directly on nature, hunting and farming,” he says. “We<br />
make our philosophy work with the environment, getting the<br />
correct products, [thanks to our] relationship with the hunters<br />
and local suppliers.”<br />
At his one-Michelin-starred restaurant, Infantes uses fire<br />
and smoke to coax maximum flavour from his carefully sourced<br />
ingredients. Diners choose from either the Origen or Esencia<br />
tasting menu, where they’ll find fire-kissed dishes such as a<br />
rustic stew made with pigs’ ears and Castilian chickpeas, served<br />
with still-smoking crunchy pigs’ ears drizzled with an adobo<br />
manchego cheese sauce, and freshly caught trout bathed in a<br />
pil pil sauce made from the fish’s smoked bones and roe.<br />
The pride felt by Castilian chefs for their homeland is palpable<br />
here, with local ingredients and new spins on traditional regional<br />
preparations touted on nearly every menu.<br />
“I believe that in a cuisine like ours, sincerity should prevail<br />
in every dish,” says Maldonado. “There should be a piece of the<br />
chef’s soul behind every bite and preparation.”<br />
CHANGE IN THE AIR<br />
Clockwise from left:<br />
one of Toledo’s<br />
famous windmills;<br />
a wooden platter at<br />
Ancestral; Carlos<br />
Maldonado of Raíces<br />
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SUCCESS<br />
Innovation in the vineyard and at the cellar door<br />
has led to a new generation of global oenophiles<br />
going sweet on that most classic of French<br />
dessert wines – Sauternes // By Jeffrey T. Iverson<br />
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WHERE DOES THE legend of French wine find its source?<br />
In the ancient soils of Burgundy’s Côte d’Or? In the chalky<br />
cellars of Champagne? Perhaps. But no wine region is quite<br />
so shrouded in mythos as Sauternes, a tiny appellation of<br />
rolling hills, pastures, forests and fairytale castles situated<br />
around 40km southeast of Bordeaux. Here the Garonne meets<br />
its cooler tributary, the Ciron, a convergence that gives rise to<br />
a spectacular mist that floods this bucolic landscape and its<br />
vineyards every autumn.<br />
For hundreds of years, the sublimely sweet wines crafted<br />
here by estates such as Château d’Yquem (yquem.fr),<br />
Château Climens (chateau-climens.fr) and Château Coutet<br />
(chateaucoutet.com) have been savoured the world over, from<br />
the palaces of the Russian tsars to the imperial court of<br />
Japan to the executive residence of George Washington. For<br />
such famed producers, the most complicated task was never<br />
selling their wine, but each year harnessing the elusive magic<br />
of Botrytis cinerea, or noble rot. This fungus, born of morning<br />
mists and responsible for concentrating grape sugars to<br />
ambrosial levels, creates stunningly complex flavours of spice,<br />
honey and fruit, endowing these wines with a capacity to age<br />
for centuries.<br />
A few decades ago, though, things began to change. With<br />
wine consumption declining in recent generations, sweet<br />
wines were the first knocked off the table, deflating global<br />
exports. Worse, Sauternes has found itself on the front<br />
lines of global warming, with increasingly chaotic climatic<br />
conditions threatening harvests. This perfect storm of crises<br />
might have shuttered the historic estates of Sauternes.<br />
Instead, over the past decade, Sauternes has seen the biggest<br />
wave of innovation and investment in memory. “There’s an<br />
excitement in the air today,” says Lorenzo Pasquini, estate<br />
manager of Château d’Yquem. “There’s a lot of new blood in<br />
Sauternes – new owners, directors, teams – and they all share<br />
this desire to see Sauternes recover its status as one of the<br />
world’s greatest wines.”<br />
To mitigate climate change and improve grape quality,<br />
estates have been developing eco-friendly techniques while<br />
also opening their doors to the public – creating luxurious<br />
lodgings and restaurants where chefs are rewriting the rules<br />
over Sauternes’ place in gastronomy. As a result, oenophiles<br />
are returning to Sauternes once again, and rediscovering one<br />
of the most beguiling wines – and wine regions – in France.<br />
Château d’Yquem, the only “Superior First Growth” of the<br />
1855 Bordeaux classification, was managed by the same family<br />
for 400 years, reigning from its hilltop – in the words of writer<br />
Anne-Marie Royer-Pantin – like “a metaphor for the highest<br />
idea of a wine”. Old bottles of Yquem, such as an 1811 “comet<br />
vintage”, auctioned in 2011 for $117,000, are among the most<br />
coveted wines in the world. Subject to the most meticulous,<br />
draconian viticultural methods, each vine at this storied estate<br />
produces the equivalent of just one glass. Waiting weeks for<br />
botrytis to shrivel the grapes to maximum concentration<br />
precipitates a massive reduction in volume while increasing<br />
risk of harvest losses to bad weather or grey rot.<br />
Yquem’s tradition of excellence at all costs has endured<br />
under the ownership of French luxury goods company LVMH,<br />
which acquired it in 1999. In 2012, battered by late season<br />
rains, the estate announced the vintage wasn’t worthy of the<br />
Yquem name and released no wine – the 10th time of doing<br />
so since the turn of the 20th century. “We must accept that<br />
this wine’s beauty comes at a price, which is the willingness<br />
to endure great loss, sometimes the loss of everything,” says<br />
Yquem’s Pasquini. “If we are capable of accepting that, we<br />
have the chance to harvest something that is simply sublime.”<br />
Still, that remarkable perseverance has been pushed to new<br />
extremes in recent years by the existential challenge of climate<br />
change. With the rise of global temperatures, Sauternes must<br />
now face annual episodes of drought, flash floods, frost and<br />
hail. “The climate has become much more extreme,” elaborates<br />
Pasquini. “More than just global warming, it’s becoming a<br />
global mess.”<br />
With warmer winters causing vines to bud earlier, bouts of<br />
spring frost have ravaged vineyards at estates such as Château<br />
Climens in Barsac – Sauternes’ sister appellation – which lost<br />
its harvests in 2017 and 2021. In an effort to adapt, the region’s<br />
vignerons have equipped themselves with everything from<br />
frost candles to wind turbines, which work by flushing cold air<br />
from the vineyards. Château La Tour Blanche (tour-blanche.<br />
com) has wheeled mobile hot-air cannons into its vineyards,<br />
while Château d’Arche (chateau-arche.fr) uses a machine that<br />
floods vineyards with a blanket of thick, protective fog.<br />
Yet, with a humility born of an age-old dependence on<br />
nature’s cooperation, the vignerons of Sauternes have also<br />
realised that the best way to protect their vineyards is to<br />
help the vines to protect themselves. At Château Lafaurie<br />
Peyraguey (lafauriepeyragueylalique.com), the team has begun<br />
delaying the winter pruning by several weeks, to coax the vines<br />
into budding after frost risk has waned. At Château d’Yquem,<br />
to help its semillon and sauvignon blanc vines acclimate to the<br />
heat, the team has replanted the entire vineyard on droughtresistant<br />
rootstock, while also managing its vine canopy in new<br />
ways to better protect the grapes from the sun. Furthermore,<br />
Yquem and other estates now keep their vineyard soils covered<br />
FOR THE AGES<br />
From top: Château Lafaurie-<br />
Peyraguey’s hotel; the estate<br />
at Château d’Yquem<br />
Previous pages:<br />
Château d’Yquem’s cellar<br />
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with natural grassing and cover crops to prevent erosion<br />
and protect soil microbes – essential for the vine roots to<br />
absorb minerals. And just as life in the soil improves a vine’s<br />
health and resilience, so do the hundreds of species of pestcontrolling<br />
insects and birds that find shelter in the vineyard<br />
and in the 90 hectares of prairie, paddocks, and forest that<br />
Yquem maintains around its almost 100hs of vines.<br />
To further safeguard this precious ecosystem, in 2022, Château<br />
d’Yquem was certified organic. “Across the region today, you meet<br />
winegrowers who share an ambition to leave their successors an<br />
estate that’s thriving and in good health,” says Pasquini.<br />
Ever since Château Guiraud (chateauguiraud.com) – renowned<br />
today for Sauternes of great freshness and spice – became the<br />
first of Bordeaux’s premier grand crus to be certified organic<br />
in 2011, estates across Sauternes have been going green. At<br />
Château La Tour Blanche, sheep grazing in the vineyard have<br />
replaced chemical fertilisers and weed killers. Château Climens<br />
was certified biodynamic in 2014, and Château Rieussec (+33<br />
5579 81414), the First Growth estate owned by Domaines Barons<br />
de Rothschild, will soon be certified organic.<br />
Jean-Jacques Dubourdieu, owner of the biodynamically<br />
farmed grand cru Château Doisy Daëne (denisdubourdieu.<br />
com) and co-president of the Sauternes-Barsac appellation,<br />
estimates that easily 90% of the region’s 140 estates have<br />
embraced a strong environmental approach in their viticulture<br />
today – a trend that has helped many take advantage of the<br />
warmer growing seasons and produce a string of critically<br />
acclaimed vintages. “A revival is underway in Sauternes today,”<br />
says Dubourdieu. “Thanks to this refocusing of our production<br />
methods for high-quality wines and a rethinking of our<br />
approach to sales, stocks of Sauternes and Barsac wines are<br />
the lowest they’ve been in 25 years.”<br />
Estates have recognised the untapped potential of<br />
Sauternes to become a top-tier wine destination, as a famous<br />
appellation situated within a beautiful, Natura 2000-classified<br />
nature reserve. Bordeaux’s famous châteaux have in the past<br />
been notoriously unwelcoming, but in recent years Sauternes<br />
has opened its doors to the public. Today, wine lovers book<br />
private tours of Château d’Yquem’s centuries-old winery, enjoy<br />
tastings around suspended, tree-shaded tables at Château de<br />
Rayne Vigneau (raynevigneau.fr), and attend sundown vineyardconcerts<br />
at Château La Tour Blanche. At the Maison de<br />
Sauternes (maisondusauternes.com), the appellation’s freshly<br />
renovated, showcase tasting room boutique in the eponymous<br />
“<br />
Lorenzo<br />
Across the region today, you meet winegrowers who<br />
share an ambition to leave their successors an estate<br />
that’s thriving and in good health<br />
Pasquini, estate manager at Château d’Yquem<br />
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From top: The grapes of Château<br />
La Tour Blanche; Château<br />
d’Yquem’s “Champagne Plate”<br />
Facing Page: Restaurant Lalique at<br />
Château Lafaurie-Peyraguey<br />
village, they peruse the world’s largest<br />
collection of the wine. They sleep at Château<br />
Sigalas Rabaud (chateau-sigalas-rabaud.com),<br />
whose historic vineyard charterhouse has been<br />
transformed into a stylish bed-and-breakfast,<br />
and dine at the farm-to-table restaurant La<br />
Chapelle at Château Guiraud, where a 26-room<br />
luxury hotel opens soon.<br />
It’s a new dynamic that many trace back<br />
to the 2014 acquisition of Château Lafaurie-<br />
Peyraguey by Silvio Denz, owner of the<br />
crystal manufacturer Lalique. In 2018, Denz<br />
reopened the 400-year-old castle as a fivestar<br />
Relais & Châteaux hotel, setting a new<br />
bar for hospitality in Sauternes. As for the<br />
estate’s gastronomic eatery, it took chef<br />
Jérôme Schilling just four years to earn the<br />
Réstaurant Lalique two Michelin stars.<br />
“The wine of Sauternes has been weighed<br />
down by so many stereotypes,” says Schilling.<br />
“You can’t open it in its youth, it has to be<br />
aged decades in the cellar, you can only drink<br />
it with a dessert or with Christmas foie gras…<br />
I wanted to break with all these codes, and<br />
offer a different vision of Sauternes.”<br />
Schilling celebrates the colourful, lesserknown<br />
palate of young Sauternes, whose<br />
luscious sweetness and aromas of tropical fruit,<br />
vanilla and spice create surprising harmony with<br />
the brine of oysters and caviar. The complex<br />
aromatics of older vintages are deconstructed<br />
into dishes such as his veal sweetbreads<br />
cooked with tobacco leaves, licorice and coffee<br />
the very notes you experience in your glass of<br />
1989 Lafaurie-Peyraguey.<br />
Dubbed “le cuisinier des vignes” – the<br />
vineyard chef – Schilling tenderises pigeon<br />
or mallard in Sauternes wine lees, uses grape<br />
must to create salt marinades for fish, and<br />
infuses dishes with smoke from vine cuttings<br />
or the oak of Sauternes barrels. Inspired by<br />
everything from grape pips to gravel to the<br />
morning fog of the Ciron river, Schilling’s is a<br />
cuisine of earthy poetry steeped in the living<br />
history of a legendary terroir, reminding us<br />
why Sauternes has beguiled wine lovers for<br />
centuries, and why it will surely continue to do<br />
so for years to come.<br />
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A SPIRIT OF<br />
RENAISSANCE<br />
Prized architects, a comprehensive overview of Damien Hirst’s<br />
work and an entrepreneur’s vision make a powerful combination<br />
at a remarkable vineyard in the South of France<br />
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ROCK OF AGES<br />
Sahara Meteorite,<br />
2014, by Damien Hirst,<br />
who contributes all the<br />
works on these pages<br />
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ABOVE<br />
Hazy Star-Clouds,<br />
2021<br />
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ABOVE<br />
Children of<br />
a Dead King, 2010<br />
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THE HEART<br />
OF ART<br />
It was part of Irish businessman Paddy McKillen’s vision for the picturesque<br />
vineyard at Château La Coste, near Aix-en-Province in the Côte d’Azur region<br />
of southern France, that the world’s greatest architects and artists would<br />
contribute to create a destination where lovers of both art and wine could<br />
indulge their passions. So far, so good, with Tadao Ando, Frank Gehry, Oscar<br />
Niemeyer, Jean Nouvel, Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers contributing the<br />
unique structures and gallery spaces dotted around the 200ha site, and Ai<br />
Weiwei and Tracey Emin contributing to the more than 40 artistic works around<br />
the complex. It’s Emin’s fellow YBA – if the term Young British Artist can still<br />
be applied to a 58-year-old – Damien Hirst who is helping Château La Coste<br />
move on to another level. His The Light that Shines exhibition is the first show<br />
to take over the entire estate and encapsulates the breadth and dynamism of<br />
what McKillen has created in this beautiful part of the world. In a mixture of<br />
old work and pieces that have never been seen before, Hirst makes use of the<br />
various pavilions to differentiate between the diverse aspects of his oeuvre.<br />
In the Richard Rogers Gallery, the artist’s The Empress Paintings are on view,<br />
an exploration of an iconic motif in his work as black and red butterfly wings<br />
are used in a kaleidoscopic effect. In the Oscar Niemeyer Auditorium, there<br />
are Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable – sculptures and lightboxes<br />
first shown in Venice in 2017 – while at the Bastide Gallery, Hirst’s most recent<br />
series, The Secret Garden Paintings, depicts vibrantly coloured flowers. In<br />
addition, other sculptural works feature around Frank Gehry’s Music Pavilion<br />
and the Tadao Ando Art Centre. A comprehensive display of a great artist’s<br />
work, extraordinary buildings from the world most revered architects, fine wine<br />
and more? McKillen’s background in hospitality – he’s the former owner of<br />
Claridge’s, The Connaught and The Berkeley hotels in London – guarantees it.<br />
A consummate welcome awaits at Villa La Coste, the accompanying property,<br />
which boasts 28 sumptuous villas, a well-equipped spa and dining options<br />
overseen by Michelin-starred chef Hélène Darroze. chateau-la-coste.com<br />
Marseille Provence Airport: 24miles/39km<br />
FACING PAGE<br />
Hirst with his work<br />
The Ascension, 2003<br />
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ABOVE<br />
Koken / Eleanor / Livia /<br />
Ying / Mentewab, 2023<br />
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THE LAST WORD<br />
PIERRE<br />
GASLY<br />
The Alpine Formula 1 driver<br />
on life away from the track<br />
TRAVEL<br />
Home comforts or thrill-seeker?<br />
Being a Formula 1 driver is such an exhausting life that, as<br />
soon as I can, I like to switch off. I have a big family – four<br />
brothers, all with kids – so I like to head home to France and<br />
spend some time with them. I quite enjoy “flyaway” races<br />
[away from Europe]. For example, when we go to Australia,<br />
we go the Sunday before to acclimatise and I usually get<br />
Monday to Wednesday to myself. With a day/day-and-a-half<br />
spare I try to get some golfing in – it’s a new hobby for me<br />
over the past 18 months or so.<br />
JULIAN RENTZSCH<br />
FOOD<br />
Big names or hidden gems?<br />
What I eat is quite strictly controlled, but on the flip side I<br />
am a big foodie. My dad is an incredible chef, who just loves<br />
French cuisine and loves spending hours in the kitchen,<br />
so I get that from him. When I travel, I like to seek out the<br />
local food, particularly if I am by the sea and can get great<br />
seafood. My girlfriend is from Portugal and I went to the<br />
Algarve last summer with her family, which was amazing.<br />
ACCOMMODATION<br />
Grandes dames, luxe design, or eminently private?<br />
It depends on how long I stay, but I must say the big hotels,<br />
where you know exactly what you are getting, are the best.<br />
The levels of service are impeccable. I like modern places that<br />
always have the latest technology – and nice gyms combined<br />
with a spa. For longer breaks with my family and friends, I’d<br />
usually go for a villa.<br />
DOWNTIME<br />
Good book or big screen?<br />
As I child I was never that keen on books, but it’s something<br />
that has kicked in for me in the past few years. I love watching<br />
live sports. I’m a massive motor sports fan – whether it’s<br />
IndyCar, Formula E or MotoGP. I really enjoy watching MotoGP<br />
because of the contests and the overtaking. I get the chance<br />
to meet some of these guys – some of these champions – so<br />
as soon as I know someone, I feel the excitement of watching<br />
how they’re doing and supporting them.<br />
FUTURE PLANS<br />
Off-track business or pure focus on driving?<br />
There’s nothing like Formula 1, but even after that I have a<br />
focus on driving. I would love to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans.<br />
I have a couple of other business interests, but I intend to<br />
keep driving for as long as possible.<br />
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