Interview: Richard Geoffroy

Dom Pérignon's Chef de Cave on the vintner's exquisite 2002 Rosé

One of my favorite people to sit down and have a glass of champagne with is Dom Pérignon‘s head wine maker, the doctor turned Chef de Cave Richard Geoffroy. He’s a magician, a poet and a man deeply passionate about the quirks of the land and the grapes it produces. We last spoke three years ago when Dom Perignon released the 1990 Rosé Œnothèque, often …

The 2014 Bentley Flying Spur

Party in the front, business in the back, the company's most powerful sedan yet

No longer confined to its previous Continental badging, the all new 2014 Bentley Flying Spur sedan embraces its post-breakup makeover—worked out and muscled up, turning heads as it passes by. Faster and more powerful than any of the British auto maker’s previous sedans, the Flying Spur has been completely redesigned and reengineered, rightly taking its place between the brand’s Continental and Mulsanne models. It’s a …

Interview: Tom Peters and the 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray

We talk inspiration, heritage and hate mail with the designer of the hottest new American sports car

Chevrolet announced the all new 2014 Corvette C7 Stingray to grand applause and a few raised eyebrows at the 2013 Detroit Auto Show. Just the seventh iteration since the iconic car’s inception in 1953, the redesign is all about moving the model, and the company, forward. Rather than playing it safe with some surface tweaks, the C7 evolves and, in some cases, removes some of …