LIFESTYLE

Sotheby’s will open 2012 global wine auctions on 14 January 2012 at Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong with a various owner sale of Finest and Rarest Wines Including the Bordeaux Winebank Collection. Highlights include over 200 cases of investment grade Bordeaux from the Bordeaux Winebank Collection, Super Second Bordeaux of exceptional quality and value, great Burgundy from Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, historic Champagne direct from the cellars of Veuve Clicquot, as well as a selection of rare California Cult Wines.

Bangkok is like your favourite ex: the one you carry a secret torch for, the one that could have been — should have been — the best thing that ever happened to you and was wrong for all the right reasons. It’s a city that you can feel against your skin, taste on your lips. Your clothes still reek of it weeks later when you return home. You’ll smell it on your suit coat driving into work or when you open your wallet at the corner store to buy a litre of milk.

Do you know there is big game in Phuket, Thailand? It's true. You can find wild boar, deer and even ostrich - if you know where to look.

Restaurants around the world will soon use new DNA technology to assure patrons they are being served the genuine fish fillet or caviar they ordered, rather than inferior substitutes, an expert in genetic identification says.