Do a Google search for "gifts for the guy who has everything" and one of our sponsored ads will show up [please don't click on our ad as that will cost us money!]. We pride ourselves on having some great gift ideas for the impossible-to-shop-for gentleman. Some of our favorites include things like the Laguiole Champagne Saber, Pantherella cashmere socks, any El Casco desk accessory, Atoll's Stingray Cigar Case, and much, much more. 

We've enjoyed helping Americans find the perfect gift for almost 5 years now, but we also have a healthy international business. Unfortunately, we have not yet penetrated the lucrative demographic of Blingshevkis - billionaire Russian oligarchs - or the higher echelons of the Kremlin. Specifically, former President and current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin turned 56 a couple days ago, and an unnamed gift-giver gave him a rare Ussuri tiger cub as a gift. The cub, a 2-month old female, is yet unnamed but he's considering Malishka or Mashenka.

The reality is, even the guy that has everything, doesn't really have everything. You can always get him a new Truefitt & Hill Edwardian Horn Shave Set or some Jan Leslie 18K gold cufflinks. If you absolutely have your heart set on a tiger cub for the holidays, we can't help. But you can read the full story about Vlad's new gift here.

It will come as a surprise to everyone except those that know me, that I still have not mastered every single talent that a modern gentleman must possess. Tie a bow tie? No problem. Properly clipping & lighting a cigar? Can do it in my sleep. Drive a golf ball 300 yards? I have witnesses. Open a bottle of champagne with a champagne saber? Utter failure.

We have been selling the Laguiole Champagne Saber for a couple of years now, and any gentleman would admit that it appears to be the coolest possible way to open a bottle of champagne. We published instructions from UrbanDaddy which take you step-by-step through the process. Those instructions in hand, I attempted with no less than half a dozen bottles and was unable to successfully open a single one. In my defense, the instructions clearly indicate that the bottle should be chilled, and mine were room temperature, and as a junk scientist, I will use that as my excuse.  

With the holidays approaching, the Champagne Sabers are flying out of here at a pace not seen since the days of Napoleon. I thought it would help to again look for a resource to help people actually use the product. A search on "the Google" yielded some video results from YouTube, and to my surprise, there was a video of a true "modern gentleman", Jason Tesauro, author of The Modern Gentleman, "beheading a bottle of champagne". Cheers!