{"id":2005160,"date":"2011-09-29T18:42:34","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T16:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/2011\/09\/29\/ballantines-welcomes-us-into-its-lair\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T12:44:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T10:44:40","slug":"ballantines-welcomes-us-into-its-lair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/2011\/09\/29\/ballantines-welcomes-us-into-its-lair\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballantine&#8217;s welcomes us into its lair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ballantine&#8217;s welcomes us into its lair<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/36902.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/36902-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"36902\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-26139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/36902-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/36902-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/36902.jpg 1310w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLast Thursday evening, two eminent members of the Luxsure editorial team were invited to the Ballantine&#8217;s 12 years party, to celebrate the presentation of a new prestige end-of-year boxed set. The venue chosen to present this delicate nectar was very underground: La Cul\u00e9e. Located under the Alexandre III bridge, this truly mysterious and unusual place welcomed a few dozen privileged guests. We caught a glimpse of worldly columnist Alexandre Maras and hip Harvey Ambomo.<br \/>\nIt was also an opportunity for us to try Ballantine&#8217;s cocktails (Green Splash, Bloody Ballantine&#8217;s and Pear Velvet). A truly successful pairing! The main purpose of the evening was to present the new Coffret Prestige Ballantine&#8217;s 12 ans. Following on from Ballantine&#8217;s previous artistic initiatives, and always with the idea of imagining new ways of consuming and serving whisky, this year the brand teamed up with a young Master Glassmaker, Vincent Breed. Inspired by the Master Blender&#8217;s art of blending, he has designed straight glasses, broken by a notch, to fit harmoniously around the bottle. Taking the concept a step further, Vincent Breed also worked on the bottoms of the glasses. Each glass bears the imprint of a barrel, finished in silver leaf. In keeping with the &#8220;Leave your mark&#8221; advertising campaign, a glass-blowing demonstration was held that evening. A true objet d&#8217;art, each glass is unique. The set price (500\u20ac) reflects the quality of this product.<br \/>\nThe set will be on sale at La Grande Epicerie, Fauchon and Lavinia from November.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/36758.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/36758-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"36758\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/36758-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/36758-1024x681.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/36807.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/36807-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"36807\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/36807-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/36807-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/37103.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/37103-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"37103\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/37103-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/37103-1024x681.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/37120.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/37120-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"37120\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/37120-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/37120-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/37120.jpg 1820w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Julien Tissot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ballantine&#8217;s welcomes us into its lair Last Thursday evening, two eminent members of the Luxsure editorial team were invited to the Ballantine&#8217;s 12 years party, to celebrate the presentation of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30407,30493],"tags":[58012,58013],"class_list":["post-2005160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-of-living","category-wines-and-spirits","tag-ballantines","tag-la-culee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2005160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2005160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2005160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2005160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}