https://agentlemans.world/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/glenfiddich-grand-cru.jpg
1003
1280
Ralph Widmer
//media.agentlemans.world/2017/01/agw-logo-605.png
Ralph Widmer2019-10-24 09:50:362019-10-24 10:48:05Glenfiddich Grand Cru: Whisky meets champagne barrel
https://agentlemans.world/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/allgäu-hotel.jpg
570
1440
Ralph Widmer
//media.agentlemans.world/2017/01/agw-logo-605.png
Ralph Widmer2019-10-23 11:22:302019-10-23 12:36:25Absolute relaxation - Wellness in the Allgäu region
https://agentlemans.world/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/swiss-golf-traveller.png
1440
2560
Ralph Widmer
//media.agentlemans.world/2017/01/agw-logo-605.png
Ralph Widmer2019-10-22 10:03:512020-01-06 08:50:07Golf equipment included - the advantages of the Swiss Traveller Card
Review Of The New Camacho Barrel Aged
About The Camacho Brand
Camacho‘s brand slogan says it all. ‘Live Loud’ is what sort of feeling you get with those cigars. Suddenly you see yourself driving in a convertible Mustang amongst the coast with a Camacho Cigar in your hand.The Camacho Barrel Aged
A couple of months ago, the Camacho Barrel Aged has been announced and I’ve been desperately waiting for it to arrive in Switzerland. Meanwhile, the Cigar is available in pretty much every lounge and cigar shop.But what makes the Barrel Aged so special?
The Camacho Barrel Aged is almost entirely made from American tobacco The cigar consists three sort of tobaccos, two of them are American – the ‘Connecticut Broadleaf’ and a ‘Pennsylvania Broadleaf’ are combined with a tobacco from Honduras. The main magic though, is the Honduras leaf has been aged for 6 years plus 5 months in a Bourbon Barrel. That’s unique on the market and defintely worth trying. Of course, I was pretty excited to see if you can actually feel the Bourbon Barrel -massive yes, you can! The Barrel Aged meanwhile belongs to my favourite cigars – always a big pleasure to smoke it. The following formats are available: Robusto (50×5), Toro (50×6) and Gordo (60×6).Camacho Barrel Aged Taste
Super fiery and passionate experience. Nothing for sissies! A full-body cigar with an intense and roast flavour. The barrel definitely shows it’s character and turns the whole smoking event into a totally exciting experience. Else, the cigar comes up with an impressive array of flavours… The construction and draw are excellent, and I was immediately amazed with notes of charred wood, vanilla, leather, and some spice. As the cigar progresses, I was struck by flavours of fruit and sweetness entering the mix with some notes of caramel. The Barrel Aged burned beautifully with an effortless drawPairing with The Balvenie TUN 1509
Absolutely no question – the best pairing from my perspective is a good, old and solid whisky. The Balvenie TUN 1509 belongs to the most extraordinary and tasteful whiskeys I have tasted so far.Balvenie TUN 1509 Flavours
Deep and rich on the nose, with floral notes, sweet vanilla and orange peel. Velvety smooth to taste with tangy citrus, mellow cinnamon spice and blossom honey.A Gentleman’s Closing Words
Camacho is a great and crazy brand, I love the adventurous brand strategy. The new Camacho Barrel Aged is a unique and intense experience – an absolute must for every gentleman! (shot taken at the McLaren event)The New McLaren 570GT – Along The Roads Of Tenerife
Introduction Of My Story
It’s one of these days when suddenly the phone rings and you’re asked if you wanna join the McLaren team on Tenerife to drive the new McLaren 570GT. My adventure started with a smooth flight, of course I was totally excited to drive across the island and discover this beautiful car.
Arrived At The Ritz Carlton Suite
The team booked the supreme suite with the new 570GT standing in the middle of deck. I almost couldn’t believe my eyes, so I had to ask how they have managed to get it up there? Well, there was no helicopter on the island with enough power – at the end of the day the have used a huge crane to lift it on to the top of the Hotel – crazy!
Over these days we had a very lovely team and wonderful food. Where ever and when ever we had all the support and help needed. I’d like to share a big thank you with the McLaren crew.
The New McLaren 570GT
With their new model – the 570GT – McLaren is presenting their yet most comfortable sports car. So what’s different? Basically the whole concept of building a sports car has been refined and made more luxury. The McLaren 570GT contains a touring deck with 220 litres of storage space, a panoramic roof, comfy beautiful leather seats and a Bowers & Wilkins sound system! The McLaren 570GT is an ultimate sports car experience. One that’s perfect for daily use, longer journeys and weekends away.
McLaren is of course using a carbon-fibre chassis to make the model light and protecting. Yes, the result of using carbon-fibre is exceptional crash protection, outstanding dynamics and an unrivaled power-to-weight ratio.
So let’s talk about the performance! McLaren is using their twin-turbocharged 3.8 – Litre V8 which produces pretty mad 562BHP and 600NM torque. The sound of the 570GT is a bit less loud compared to the other models – that ensures the common theme of building a comfortable sports-car.
The seven-speed seamless-shift gearbox belongs to most responsive gearboxes I’ve experienced so far. Pretty sick how detailed you can adjust every single detail. There are two options, both separately adjustable from each other. So you can switch the engine in sports mode but keep the handling in normal mode which is ending up in some fancy driving cocktails.
Interstellar Travelling – Along The Roads Of Tenerife
The journey we had on this island, was beyond anything I have seen and felt. The diversity of our ride across the roads was otherworld-like. And that’s why I wrote some style of a poem to express what we have discovered.
Rights by Ian Kuah – 9tro.com
The OMEGA Speedmaster Moonphase
The moon inspires mankind since we exist, it speaks his own secret language. My mother once told me that one of my first words as a baby was ‘moon’ – and I always looked up astonished by it’s mystery.
The OMEGA Speedmaster Moonphase means so much more than just a time indication to me. It’s my personal fascination for precision and perfection.
As well as beautifully measuring every moment on earth; this timepiece follows the phases of the moon, which makes perfect sense given that the Speedmaster was the first watch ever to be worn on the lunar surface.
A brief astronomy lesson: a lunar month is not 30 days, but slightly more than 29.5 days. A difficult time-span to manage for a standard gear train, but OMEGA’s Moonphase is up to the task.
The ‘Master Chronometer’ movement is the yet most precise movement, tested at the industry’s highest level. And that’s exactly the reason why it harmonizes so wonderfully with the 570GT.
Interview with Wayne Bruce
Wayne Bruce is the Global Communications and PR Director. Lucky me, I had the opportunity to ask him a couple of questions.
So you’re obviously not Batman, right?
No, it’s Wayne Bruce – not Bruce Wayne. But they call me ‘Man-bat’ in the UK
What was the goal by developing the McLaren 570GT?
It’s the most luxury McLaren that has been built yet. Means you can easily take it for a longer journey without any issues. It does take the brand into the ‘Gran Turismo’ territory for the first time in history, but it’s still very much a McLaren.
Some words about the future?
Sure, we just announced our business plan for the next 6 years. A few key points:
McLaren will stay self-funding and independent.
We’re going to invest a large proportion of our profits into future products which results in 15 new cars – half of them hybrid engines.
Describe a perfect gentleman
Of course he drives a silver McLaren 570GT (smiles). Being a gentleman is about politeness, understatement, tolerance of others and letting others go first.
Driving the McLaren 650S
After these endless roads and the tremendous beautfiul ride, I took the McLaren 650S to review a slightly faster and crisp model. I made some stopover at Los Gigantes.
Now you have a chance to see me going mad in this car. And as well explain the details.
I’m very much looking forward to my next adventure with McLaren, I’m pretty sure we will have a look into the McLaren production soon!
Driving The New Audi R8 V10 Plus
The New Audi R8 V10 Plus
Pictures and rights by Christian Schmid Fotowerk132
Audi R8 V10 Plus – The Story
This year, Audi has presented their fastest series car in history. Of course that made me curious and totally excited to drive it for a couple of days.
So what’s the difference to the old version?
This particular model is born, developed and refined directly on the racetrack. You can absolutely imagine that these guys took the whole team to the track to constantly improve the car.
The new model comes up with a naturally aspirated 5.2 L V10 that produces 610bhp! In figures? 0-100 in 3.2 seconds & 0-200 in 10 seconds, those are figures you normally get out of a Lamborghini Huracan!
As well the whole design has been made more sharp and aggressive, it’s simply killing it!
Audi R8 V10 – Technical Details
Audi decided to use a 7 gear twin-clutch gearbox that works like a Swiss watch movement. It’s absolutely precise and responsive. The power is just always available. Due to the naturally aspirated engine, you have no turbo lag or anything similar. To make it even faster on the track, Audi is using the ‘quattro technology’, which is nothing less than a beautifully made four wheel drive system.
Small hint here: as experience teaches, a four wheel drive system usually makes the car a bit heavier but therefor faster on the track (bear in mind that’s not always the case).
To experience and feel this immense power we made a couple of tests you can see in this video:
Audi R8 V10 Plus – Exhaust
Audi definitely didn’t make economies with this outstanding exhaust system! At the very moment you’re putting it into the sports mode it starts to spit fire and kills all of your sense of hearing.
We made two videos instead of talking a lot – hell what a sound!
Audi R8 V10 Plus – The Look
The new version of the Audi R8 looks very sharp and yet even pretty aggressive. The red colour with all the carbon fiber details (that makes the car lighter and more stable) gives it a supercar feeling.
I’m sure that Audi has now well managed to enter the hall of supercars. While driving through Zürich, I had people taking pictures, waving and even young boys running behind me from one to the other traffic signal with their mobile phones. That only happens in a sportscar.
The interior is very sexy for such a sports car, you basically have everything you need. The satnav does its job smoothly and the Bang & Olufsen sound system is mind blowing – not sure if you will ever use it – because the engine is all you need to hear;)
The engine has a glass cover. One of the fine details I recognised: you can see the engine through the rear-view mirror – astonishing!
Audi R8 V10 Plus – Some More Personal Impressions
I had a great time with this car and of course a lot of fun. It’s to my surprise very comfortable to drive and pretty easy as well. From my perspective, Audi has made it into the very top cars of the world and that deserves respect.
Of course the V10 is consuming a bit, and yes the car is not that cheap at 250k… You can say the that it’s difficult to reach the seat belt and small details like this but at the end of the day it was an ultimate experience!