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Consumers and steakhouses are feeling the pinch. Consumers and steakhouses are feeling the pinch.

Launched in 2000 by the Netherlands-based Spyker Cars, the model comprises numerous variants totaling nearly 300 examples to date. Launched in 2000 by the Netherlands-based Spyker Cars, the model comprises numerous variants totaling nearly 300 examples to date.

Raise a glass: these three well-balanced drinks take hosting to the next level. 

In reality, though, this mid-19th century party drink – nicknamed ‘show girls’ milk’ – is usually horribly imbalanced: insipid at the start and then overly sweet and bitter at the end. It’s a waste of good champagne.

So let me save you some time this holiday season: forget the classic champagne cocktail. If you really want to celebrate with something sparkling, then drink one of these three more interesting recipes instead.

Save your best bubbles though – middle-of-the-road brut non-vintages tend to be better for cocktails, as they’re more willing team players than vintage or very expensive cuvées that are more assertive in style. So, leave the Dom Pérignon P2 in the fridge.

How to make a yuzu champagne cocktail

Ingredients

25ml yuzushu

100ml champagne

Glass: flute, coupe or ice-filled rocks

Garnish: lemon or yuzu twist, or a pretty edible flower

Method

For a crowd, simply pop a bit of chilled yuzushu in each glass and then top up with champagne. Or just knock it up by the jug.

If you want something really easy, then champagne cocktails don’t get simpler than this – consider it a French 75 with a Japanese twist. I absolutely adore yuzu’s sunburst-y aromas of grapefruit, mandarin, and lemon. And we’re just entering the yuzu harvest in East Asia right now, so this drink is very much in season. Fresh yuzu juice is very tart on its own; yuzushu (which is basically sake-based yuzu liqueur) is better for cocktails. The level of sweetness varies from brand to brand so you may want to add a dash of sugar syrup as well.

If you can lay your hands on a real yuzu fruit for the twist, then excellent – just spritz over the drink and discard, as yuzu’s fantastically aromatic oils can sometimes be quite bitter. Cocktail Elements’s distilled yuzu spray – which can be misted on drinks like a scent – is also a brilliant short-cut.

For a lower-alcohol version of this drink, swap the champagne for sparkling jasmine tea – Jasmine by Saicho is delicious and completely alcohol-free.

How to make a French 75

Ingredients

25ml gin

12.5ml freshly squeezed lemon juice

6.25ml sugar syrup (to make, dissolve two cups of caster sugar in one cup of water, over a low heat and leave to cool)

50ml champagne

Glass: cocktail glass, flute or ice-filled rocks

Garnish: lemon twist

Method

Shake the gin, lemon juice and sugar syrup. Strain into glass. Top with champagne and stir.

This icy meteor of gin, lemon, champagne, and sugar is one of my favorite party drinks. It’s sophisticated and fun, easy to make at scale, and extremely efficacious. There’s evidence of people (including Charles Dickens himself) mixing gin and champagne as early as the mid-1800s. But the French 75, in this form at least, is a racy Jazz Age recipe. It’s thought to have been named after a French field gun used in WWI.

If you’re making it for a party, knock up a jug of the lemon, gin, and sugar mix in advance (don’t bother shaking), and then chill well for a few hours. The measurements look fiddly but it’s really just gin, lemon, and sugar combined in a ratio of 4:2:1.

Just before serving, add the chilled champagne to the jug along with a load of ice, and then dispense liberally, in either coupes, flutes or in tumblers, on the rocks. (The same method can also be used for the air mail below.)

How to make an air mail

Ingredients

30ml golden rum

10ml freshly squeezed lime juice

15ml honey syrup (to make the honey syrup, mix honey 2:1 with hot water and leave to cool)

50ml champagne

Glass: ice-filled rocks

Garnish: mint sprig

Method

Shake the first three ingredients with ice, then strain over ice and top with champagne (if mixing at scale, follow the same instructions as the French 75).

This classic rum cocktail is essentially a honey-kissed daiquiri topped with sparkling wine. It’s great with white rum but I like it best with golden, which rounds it out a bit more and – depending on which rum you use – can also add a subtle touch of tropical funk. The Appleton Estate Signature Blend from Jamaica is beautifully balanced and excellent for mixing. The mint garnish gives the drink a more summery, herbal lift – just give the sprigs a sharp slap between your palms before adding, to release the scented oils.

Steven Walbroehl’s ultra-modern Lakeview mansion comes complete with a professional recording studio.  Steven Walbroehl’s ultra-modern Lakeview mansion comes complete with a professional recording studio. 

Inside BlueHouse at JFK’s Terminal 5. Inside BlueHouse at JFK’s Terminal 5.

The Alpine vacation home is clad almost entirely in reclaimed wood planks with stunning views of Italy’s 3Tre peak. The Alpine vacation home is clad almost entirely in reclaimed wood planks with stunning views of Italy’s 3Tre peak.

Here, the thrill of the slopes meets a world of contemporary and traditional art. 

Aside from Art Basel Miami Beach, most major fairs and important auctions take place outside of the ski season. However, well-appointed mountain towns such as Aspen and St Moritz are becoming increasingly well-established fine-art destinations. Here, we explore the select places to enjoy paintings and powder in these distinguished mountain towns.

Top art galleries in Aspen

Aspen Art Museum

Worth visiting for its architecture alone, Aspen Art Museum was founded in 1979 as a non-collecting art institution, and is now a large, public space. Its light, latticed, boxy structure at 637 East Hyman Avenue dates from 2014, and is the work of Pritzker Architecture Prize winner, Shigeru Ban.

However, the real draw this season is the museum’s Glenn Ligon show, Break It Down. Running from now until March 15, 2026, it spotlights the work of the Black, gay, New York-based artist known for her cerebral contemporary practice. Focusing on three key spaces – Figure, Runaways, and Narratives – from Linon’s work in the 1990s and early 2000s, it explores themes of race, identity, and sexual politics in America through text, printmaking, painting, and photography.

Galerie Maximillian

Established in 1997 by art dealer Albert Sanford, Galerie Maximilian specializes in prints and works on paper, and favors pieces by British artists, including Julian Opie, Peter Doig, Damien Hirst, Richard Hamilton, Harland Miller, and Grayson Perry. Still, it finds room for many Americans, such as Julie Mehretu, Chuck Close, and Katherine Bernhardt. The gallery prides itself on its personal approach – Sanford says he doesn’t show anything he wouldn’t proudly hang in his own home. If you visit, be sure to say hello to the gallery’s resident dogs, Hank and Lucy, as well as an ever-changing array of high-quality works on display at Maximillian’s 602 East Cooper Avenue space.

Baldwin Gallery

For the past 30 years, the Baldwin Gallery at 209 South Galena Street has showcased works by both established and emerging contemporary American artists, including Robert Mapplethorpe, Andy Warhol, Mickalene Thomas, and James Rosenquist. This winter, the spotlight turns to Louisiana-born, New York-based painter Marilyn Minter, whose provocative, makeup-smeared lip prints will be featured in a special exhibition running until December 21, 2025. Not in Aspen for that? The gallery will follow with a group show running from December 27, 2025 to February 8, 2026, presenting a trio of acclaimed mid-career US artists: Gary Simmons, Lyle Ashton Harris, and Jim Hodges.

Casterline Goodman

Though Aspen is now known as a premier ski town, it was settled as a 19th-century mining community and so is deeply rooted in the American frontier. The Casterline Goodman gallery reflects this history, showing works by contemporary artists David Hockney, Richard Prince, KAWS, and photographer David Yarrow, alongside late 20th and early 21st-century artists who celebrate Aspen’s roots, such as John Nieto and John De Puy.

Nieto, a Texan artist of Mexican-American heritage, focused on Native American themes in his work, while De Puy was one of the last surviving members of the Taos Modernists, taking mid-century abstract techniques and applying them to the New Mexico landscape. Yarrow, meanwhile, shoots stylized images that recall Aspen’s lawless Wild West years, and its hedonistic, bohemian heyday during the 1970s and 1980s.

Best art galleries in St Moritz

Hauser & Wirth

Hauser & Wirth’s Swiss heritage ensures that this outpost, at 22 Via Serlas in St Moritz, remains a key space within its global portfolio. From December 13, 2025 through March 28, 2026, its Moritz gallery stages a remarkable show of paintings, sculptures, and drawings by Alberto Giacometti. Though he is best known for his gangly sculptures, this Giacometti show, subtitled ‘Faces and Landscapes of Home’, focuses on the artist’s family, as well as landscapes of his native Val Bregaglia and the Engadin, in the surrounding Swiss canton of Graubünden.

Nomad

This footloose contemporary art fair – which also stages events in Monaco, Venice, Cannes, and Capri, and has a fair planned for the Hamptons next summer – schusses into Switzerland’s leading Alpine resort over the Valentine’s Day weekend, February 13 – 15, 2026.

Nomad prides itself not only on attracting great commercial gallery displays, but also in finding venues of architectural merit; its recent Abu Dhabi fair was staged in the decommissioned Terminal 1, at Zayed International Airport – a modernist gem designed by Paul Andreu, the celebrated French architect best-known for his work on Charles de Gaulle Airport. Exact details for Nomad St Moritz are being finalized, but visitors can expect to see fine works in an equally refined setting.

L’Atelier Gian Giovanoli

The Swiss commercial photographer Gian Giovanoli was born in the small Alpine village of Sils Maria and shot many of his earliest images in and around St Moritz. His gallery, part showroom, part atelier, at 33 Via Maistra dates from 2020. It regularly shows Giovanoli’s large-format black-and-white landscape prints photographed in the Swiss Alps, local wildlife studies, and personal projects, such as Giovanoli’s documentary series examining the lives of nomadic herders.

Deodato Arte

Located at 10 Via Rosatsch in St Moritz, this multi-gallery Italian venture specializes in pop and street art (think KAWs, Banksy, Takashi Murakami, Mr Brainwash). Works by contemporary and modern artists and photographers, including Jeff Koons and David LaChapelle, also make an appearance, alongside pieces from the odd celebrity painter, such as Johnny Depp. Deodato complements its physical presence with a well-curated online sales platform, allowing you to explore now and purchase later.

Art galleries in Megève

Four Seasons Resort Megève

Despite its cutesy village feel, tiny Megève – in the French Alps, near Mont Blanc – is about as luxe as ski resorts come (it was developed in 1920s as a French alternative to St Mortiz by none other than the Rothschild family). The jewel of the family’s Megève project is the Four Seasons resort which, while not strictly a gallery, hosts an impressive art display within its walls, with pieces from Baroness Ariane de Rothschild’s personal collection. Infusing a personal element to what could otherwise just be another outpost from an international hotel chain, Baroness Rothschild’s collection is made up of art from her travels, including life-size images of Indian headdresses, Japanese papers, and Alpine tapestries.

Edith Allard Modern and Contemporary Art Space

Located inside Megève’s cultural, leisure, and sports complex, the Edith Allard Modern and Contemporary Art Space hosts rotating exhibitions on local art and artists. From December 20, 2025 through May 3, 2026, the gallery will host a comprehensive retrospective of Megevan sculptor Pierre Margara, with over 100 pieces in wood, bronze, and marble.

Galerie Adrianna MJW

Less a gallery, more an invitation into an artist’s private space, Galerie Adrianna MJW is a culmination of Adrianna MJW’s moody, atmospheric prints and photography. Her studio looks out on the area’s dramatic scenery – as a result, each piece displayed captures a darker and more thoughtful side of the Alpine landscape, away from Megève’s more typical glitz. The studio is open daily, but as it is the artist’s personal space, consider reaching out beforehand to check opening hours.

Art installations in Powder Mountain

Powder Art Foundation

Combining ski and culture on an unprecedented level, the Powder Art Foundation takes the art to the slopes – from immersive sound exhibits scattered through the pines to skiable light shows. The multi-disciplinary exhibit is dotted across 12,000 acres of alpine terrain, with commissioned pieces rotating to reflect the seasons. Throughout summer all installations are open for the wider public to explore freely; in winter, access is included with every ski pass.

The media mogul acquired the four-acre spread from actor Jeff Bridges before incorporating it into her Promised Land property. The media mogul acquired the four-acre spread from actor Jeff Bridges before incorporating it into her Promised Land property.

Lock Stock & Barrel says its new spirit is the oldest available. Lock Stock & Barrel says its new spirit is the oldest available.

The author and business commentator—widow of former GE CEO Jack Welch—is parting with her 40-foot-wide townhouse, complete with one of Manhattan’s largest private gardens.   The author and business commentator—widow of former GE CEO Jack Welch—is parting with her 40-foot-wide townhouse, complete with one of Manhattan’s largest private gardens.