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Amid the current economic recession, there has been a general downward shift from luxury spirits to medium-priced bottles, while most distributors have put the launch of new brands on hold. …

Bernard Lewis’s new collection of essays, “The End of Modern History in the Middle East”, is an often fascinating, sometimes dull and endlessly frustrating continuation of the author’s 50-plus years …

Michael Karam, award winning author of Wines of Lebanon and Michael Karam’s Lebanese Wines 2011: A Comprehensive Guide, and associate editor-in-chief for executive, selects his favorite full-bodied Lebanese wines. Note: …

To say that money can’t buy taste is a truism with particular relevance in today’s luxury markets as they rebound from the global recession. Ostentatious spending is out, replaced with …

  On a Wednesday evening in downtown Beirut, Wadih Riachi is carefully explaining to an engaged group the fermentation and maceration process that goes into the Joseph Drouhin Beaune Greves …

Nicolas Baretzki checks his wristwatch. “It was a full moon exactly two-and-a-half days ago,” he says. Like any avid luxury watch enthusiast, the International director of Jaeger Le Coultre Swiss-made …

Few displays of the luxurious lifestyle turn heads quite like a top-of-the range boat, and it is the colossal mega yachts that tend to elicit the most attention. These floating …

It may have just been a convergence of circumstances, but Tiffany’s opening of both their Beirut boutique and their regional headquarters in Dubai within the same week was a pretty …

There are around 200 super cars in Lebanon tucked away in garages, strategically parked by valets outside high-end night spots and, on occasion, swerving around suspension-wrecking potholes on Lebanon’s mountain …

After the exhausting rush of 2010, which saw new luxury boutiques cropping up in downtown Beirut like saplings in springtime, Lebanon’s luxury retail market has settled into a more stable …