1 A Hennessey Convertible Hypercar
Texas-based tuner John Hennessey developed his Venom F5 hypercar from the ground up and began deliveries of it in 2021; one was part of an exclusive package in our gift guide last year. Hennessey and Robb Report now return with the new Venom F5 Roadster. This unique offer includes one of only 30 examples of the 1,817hp convertible to be produced - and the opportunity to put it through its paces (with instruction from a professional driver) at Circuit of the Americas, site of Formula 1’s United States Grand Prix.
Complementing the car is a matching limitededition chronograph featuring a case formed from a single block of sapphire crystal and engraved with your roadster’s serial number. To present you with both, Hennessey Special Vehicles will fly you first-class round-trip and provide three nights at Four Seasons Hotel Austin. And since the Venom F5 isn’t meant to be a daily driver, you will also be sent home with a truly Lone Star state-style grocery getter, the 558hp Hennessey VelociRaptor 600 truck.
US$4.2 million, offer expires on 31 March
2 A 100-Point Sonoma Wine Sojourn
Vérité, whose highly sought-after wines have received seventeen 100-point scores, sits just outside the town of Healdsburg, Sonoma’s wine capital. Since its founding in 1998, the winery has combined French grape varieties and viniculture techniques with the area’s unique California terroir. In 2023, it will open an above-ground barrel room, called a chai, also designed to offer a luxurious and intimate tasting experience befitting the celebrated vintages.
This gift, just for Robb Report readers, will offer three couples the opportunity to tour the recently renovated Vérité Estate and experience a blending seminar and tasting with father-and-daughter winemaking team Pierre and Hélène Seillan. You will also enjoy a helicopter flight, allowing you to see the property from the skies, and a private dinner in the chai paired with Vérité wines. On departure, each couple will receive a complete set of all 17 of Vérité’s 100-point wines.
US$75,000
3 A Bespoke Michael Browne Haute Couture Wardrobe
Michael Browne is unlike any other tailor you may have met. At the forefront of independent haute couture for men, Browne has refined the bespoke process to such a level that he refers to himself as a couturier rather than a tailor, as he spends around 200 hours on each design (when Savile Row tailors typically expend 80 hours on theirs). His signature style is sleek and sexy, exquisitely cut close to the body and designed to make an impact. Despite, or often because of, its minimal colour palette, it is clothing to be seen in.
Trained on the Row at Chittleborough & Morgan, Browne set up his own brand in 2017 in London. He is fastidious with fittings, cutting and sewing almost everything himself in what is, for him, a very personal process. The change in men’s dress codes over the tailored jacket, waistcoat, two pairs of trousers (one high-waisted and pleated, the other flat-fronted and slim) and what he calls the Stealth overcoat, with a fitted silhouette, dramatic lines and strong shoulders.
