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1 day ago | 
luxebeatmag.com | Kevin Pilley |Luxury Experiences
La Petite Maison (LPM) Mykonos has introduced a brand new offering called L’EscarGO – a bespoke in-villa, in-flight and on board dining experience, where an LPM chef prepares a fully bespoke menu for guests on their private jet, yacht or private villa.
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4 days ago | 
luxebeatmag.com | Kevin Pilley |Luxury Experiences
My tongue prickles and throbs. The hairs in my nose quiver uncontrollably. I begin to salivate excessively. The air suddenly becomes Very Rarefied. My nostrils begin to hallucinate, tormenting me with exquisite aromas of honey, vanilla, treacle and oak. I am mesmerized by the interplay between toffee apples, soft fruits, and sweetened spice. My lingual papillae don’t know what to do with themselves. They know what is coming too. My taste buds begin to tingle and twitch.
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5 days ago | 
luxebeatmag.com | Kevin Pilley
Up until a few years ago Vignamaggio had promoted itself as “The Birthplace Of Mona Lisa”, however fanciful, that claim cannot be validated. This luxury hotel is located in the Chianti hills above Greve and close to Panzano, forty minutes south of Florence. In 2014 architect and garden designer, 65-year-old Patrice Taravella bought the “Villa Rinascimentale” (Renaissance villa) and grounds and began restoring them to their former glories.
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5 days ago | 
luxebeatmag.com | Kevin Pilley
Nectar tastes its sweetest at sunset on the Terrace of Venus. Whether from a balloon or a tulip. Join “The Campaign For The Reinstatement Of Marsala”. And ancient Nectar meditation wine. Marsala has been ostracized for too long. Kept in solitary confinement, hidden away in a cupboard somewhere, as far away from the wine rack and wine cellar as possible. But a bottle belongs with the good wines.
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6 days ago | 
luxebeatmag.com | Kevin Pilley
As well as WiFi, iPad docks, bedside UBG plugs and Lloyd’s certification, handsome deckhands, a private chef, a Ringo, a JOBE, and at least one O’Brien are all now luxury travel essentials these days. Maybe a Seabob too. Especially if you like to gulet. And “blue cruise” in style. An inflatable donut is optional.
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1 week ago | 
luxebeatmag.com | Kevin Pilley
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… South of Mull and north of the inner Hebridean isles of Islay and Jura, Colonsay has 120 residents, one school, one hotel, one shop, one petrol pump, two doctors (husband and wife), goats who can trace their ancestors back to the Armada, an eighteenth century golf course, a wildflower honey maker, a Hangman’s Rock (the island’s old place of execution), countless ruins and innumerable seabirds and “selkies” (seals) as well as three...
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1 week ago | 
luxebeatmag.com | Kevin Pilley
Some people spend a lot of money on a pair of sunglasses because the bright sun really does hurt their eyes. Some put the projection of cool before UV protection. Others wear sunglasses to help them read. When does glare reduction not shade into sheer posing? When does clarity really become a top priority? When you are reading a line. Not in a book or online. But out on the golf course on the green, facing one of those nasty, slick downhill double-breakers. To save par. Or make birdie.
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1 week ago | 
luxebeatmag.com | Kevin Pilley |Croisi Europe
I am not the son of an Ajaccio winemaker. I didn’t get a commission on the recent £1.7m bicorne hat sale. I have never founded a newspaper, had a pastry, Cognac and deep-sea wrasse named after me, constructed a sewerage system or designed a national flag. I am not scared of cats and I have never seen myself as Charlemagne’s natural successor. Or, as the founding father of food preservation.
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1 week ago | 
luxebeatmag.com | Kevin Pilley
Monasteries are sanctuaries of tranquility. Now they are sanctuaries of gastronomy. And magnets for bon vivants.
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2 weeks ago | 
luxebeatmag.com | Kevin Pilley
Drinking Christ’s Tears is one of the best things that can happen to a Christian and wine lovers of any denomination. So when in Naples, the Amalfi coast and Italy’s Sorrentine peninsula, do what the bon vivants do. Drink from the slope of Mount Vesuvius and the “Campania felix” (fertile countryside). Go with the lava flow. Lacryma Christi is a Neapolitan wine made from grapes grown on the slopes of the Vesuvius volcano.
