FEW people can expect gift-wrapped brandy and cigars to come their way this of all Christmases. But, with the big day a little over a week away, festive indulgence beckons. The food and family are a ...

Typically, this is where I wax poetic about the importance of wine as a lens through which we examine the human experience. But not this time, no. Now that we've made it halfway through August, having ...

It has been estimated that it costs five dollars an hour to be alive in New York City. The rate might go up once you enter this orange-hued parlor for devotees of sophisticated spirits, where a ...

Havana, Cuba – Passion comes in many forms. For hundreds of visitors to Cuba this month, it’s brown, rolled and good with brandy. Cigar fanatics, deterred by neither money nor distance, travel across ...

HAVANA – Passion comes in many forms. For hundreds of visitors to Cuba this month, it’s brown, rolled and good with brandy. Cigar fanatics, deterred by neither money nor distance, travel across the ...

Preheat the oven to 180 °C. Line a baking sheet with baking paper. 1 Combine the butter, brown sugar and golden syrup in a saucepan over medium heat, stirring for 2 minutes or until the butter melts ...

Missing out on getting a bottle of Cigar City’s Brandy Barrel-Aged Hunahpu’s Imperial Stout means you have to wait at least a year until Hunahpu Day strikes again, unless a buddy stashed one for you.

Wannsee is an attractive suburb of Berlin, little bombed during the war and dominated by a magnificent lake. Yet for all Berliners, indeed all Germans, the name Wannsee is full of menace. It was here ...

PROFILE: This week's meeting between Dermot O'Leary and Taoiseach Bertie Ahern over the 'brandy and cigars' affair at Aer Rianta… PROFILE: This week's meeting between Dermot O'Leary and Taoiseach ...