LUXURY SPIRITS
Quality and Status – What’s Hot, What’s Not
Written by Don Logay – What’s New Guru
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striking couple walks from the casino into an upscale restaurant and bar on the famed Las Vegas Strip. He, in a $2,000 hand-tailored suit and she, draped in an up-to-the-minute dazzling designer dress from Paris. The kind of couple everyone turns and notices. At the bar, he orders a double Macallan 25 Years Old Scotch over one ice cube... and she, a Vesper Martini. The bartender’s eyes narrow, with a slight grin he nods his head. Fourteen miles away, at a well-stocked retail liquor store in suburban Summerlin, a young professional puts two unlikely choices into their shopping cart... one, a bottle of Ilegal Reposado Mezcal and the other, Yamazaki Distiller’s Reserve 76 | VEGASLEGALMAGAZINE.COM
Japanese Whisky... at $60 and $75 respectively. On the other side of Las Vegas, at a cocktail party in the ultra-posh community of MacDonald Highlands, the host uncorks a $200 bottle of Krug Grande Cuvee Brut Champagne and tells his guests, “On every bottle of Champagne... regardless of price... it takes precisely six onehalf counterclockwise turns to remove the wire cage on the cork.” Intrigued with his knowledge of Champagne trivia, guests watch as he does so – releasing the cork with a gentle pop. And 5,200 miles away, at a prestigious Sotheby’s Wine and Spirits Auction – on New Bond Street, London, England – a gentleman quietly waves
