KGL MAGAZINE

KGL CIRCA ’41 There's a story in every bottle CIRCA ’41 / WINE & SPIRITS Cab Cabernet. Billie Chardonnay. Syrah Vaughn. Renaissance Rye. Savoy Scotch. Inspired by the music, style and artists of Harlem in 1941. Adults 21+. Enjoy responsibly. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 / HOUSE ADVERTISEMENT 02

KGL IN THIS ISSUE Living THE LIFESTYLE CAB CABERNET, EDITOR 06 Confessions Of A Lifestyle Connoisseur The signature column by Mr. Cabernet. 09 Meet the KGG Four personalities, four columns and one house roundtable. 17 Cab Cabernet’s Wine & Dine of the Day The glass, the kitchen and a recipe for two. 23 Holiday fashion Le’ Cabernet, El Maduro, beauty and the evening wardrobe. 30 The man behind the world Business, the founder conversation and a creative portrait. 39 Free Cab Cabernet The Story Behind the Story. 41 The Bizness of Pleasure Origins, characters, the novel, soundtrack and film. 53 Travel & leisure Venice, a slower itinerary and the pleasure of an occasion. 59 Health, the cigar room & the closing pour Rest, movement, the evening ritual and a final word. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 03

KGL FROM THE EDITOR There is room at this table. An invitation to the KGL community. CAB CABERNET / EDITOR Welcome to the premiere issue of KGL MAGAZINE. If wine, cigars, music, art, fashion, business, pleasure or leisure interests you, there is a place for you here. Travel and health belong in that conversation too. A life should have both experiences worth seeking and time to appreciate them. For our first issue, we begin with THE BIZNESS OF PLEASURE. The book, soundtrack and film share a creative world, but each has a different way of drawing you inside. These pages look behind the tailored suit and the carefully arranged room to consider the story: ambition, intimacy, loyalty and the question of what a person really wants. I am writing this premiere while still incarcerated in a federal prison camp, approaching the end of one year here. My release is expected in November 2026. I am preparing to promote THE BIZNESS OF PLEASURE and the KGL projects and products featured in these pages. Jade’s interview gives us a place to talk about the service that inspired the story, the conviction in my account, and the work I intend to bring forward. Confessions Of A Lifestyle Connoisseur is where I will speak in my own voice about taste, ambition, pleasure, discipline and the choices that connect them. Jade, Scarlett, Suki and Isabella bring their own perspectives. Our travel and health departments will make space for curiosity and care. Wine of the Day and Dine of the Day will bring the conversation back to the glass and the table. You will also find a closer introduction to the KGGs, two footwear designs for the holiday wardrobe, wine and dining columns, and a journey through the pleasure of slowing down. The business belongs here alongside the beauty. An idea has to survive the work of making it real. Krushed Grapes is a lifestyle. This magazine is a place to explore it. Come with an opinion, a question and an appetite for the conversation. Cab Cabernet KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 04

KGL THE EDITOR MR. CAB CABERNET Editor. Artist. Entrepreneur. Lifestyle Connoisseur. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 05

KGL CONFESSIONS OF A LIFESTYLE CONNOISSEUR Confessions Of A Lifestyle Connoisseur The signature column by Mr. Cabernet. Cab Cabernet in the KGL brownstone campaign. Confessions begins on the following page. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 06

KGL CONFESSIONS OF A LIFESTYLE CONNOISSEUR Taste is a responsibility. The first confession: pleasure deserves attention. BY MR. CABERNET I am interested in pleasure that has a point of view. The dinner you remember is rarely only about the food. The recording you return to is more than its equipment. A beautiful room can be empty of feeling, while a small table can hold an entire evening. Taste begins when you notice the difference. It is tempting to treat sophistication as a shopping exercise. Acquire the right jacket, order the right bottle, learn a few names and wait for the transformation. Objects can be wonderful. They can also become a way of avoiding the work of developing an opinion. Owning something does not tell you why you enjoy it. For me, a lifestyle has to connect. Music, clothing, wine, art and hospitality are different forms of expression, but they share an audience: people who want to feel something about the time they spend. A shoe can suggest a mood. A song can give it a voice. A room can allow that voice to become a conversation. There is responsibility in being the person who sets that mood. You decide whether your guest feels welcome or examined. You decide whether your taste creates an invitation or a test. You decide whether the story you tell about yourself has any relationship to the way you treat people. That is where I want this column to begin. Not with a ranking of expensive things, but with a question I can return to: what am I doing with the pleasures I claim to appreciate? If the answer is only collecting them, I have more work to do. An opinion is more interesting when you can explain it. CONTINUED ON THE FOLLOWING PAGE KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 07

KGL CONFESSIONS / CONTINUED The person behind the taste A good evening has room for other people. BY MR. CABERNET The second part of taste is knowing when your preference should stop directing the room. I may care about a particular sound, a particular color or the way an evening unfolds. My guest may care about something else. Hospitality asks me to pay attention to both. That does not mean abandoning a signature. It means being secure enough in it to accommodate another person. Offer the wine you enjoy, and offer a thoughtful alternative. Choose the music, then notice whether people can hear each other. Dress with intention, then give the conversation the same attention you gave the mirror. Business belongs in this discussion. A brand makes promises through the way it presents itself. The promises become real in the details: an accurate description, a clear answer, a delivery that matches an expectation. The most polished campaign cannot do that work on its own. A lifestyle company must care about how people actually experience it. Health belongs here as well. I do not want a full calendar to become an excuse for neglecting rest, movement or the appointments that matter. Travel should make life larger, not turn it into a continuous recovery from the last departure. The pleasures of a day are easier to appreciate when the day has some room in it. These tensions run through the lifestyle. Ambition and leisure. Privacy and public identity. The things we desire and the way we live with them. I have no interest in pretending that a connoisseur has finished learning. The title is a commitment to keep noticing. My invitation is simple: know what you enjoy, learn enough to speak about it honestly, and give the people around you room to enjoy themselves too. The title is a commitment to keep noticing. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 08

KGL MEET THE KGG Four personalities. One extraordinary lifestyle. Jade. Scarlett. Suki. Isabella. The Krushed Grapes Girls with Cab Cabernet. KGL campaign portrait. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 09

KGL MEET THE KGG / THE HOUSE AND ITS VOICES MEET THE KGG The KGGs give one creative world four distinct perspectives. KGL EDITORIAL A group portrait is a statement about relationships. The eye moves from one face to another, looking for connection and difference. In the Krushed Grapes world, Cab Cabernet is the founder and editor at the center. Jade, Scarlett, Suki and Isabella each bring a recognizable identity to the frame. Jade is the composed leader. Scarlett follows fashion and the pleasure of dressing for an occasion. Suki contributes creative strategy and a precise visual instinct. Isabella brings warmth, sociability and a curiosity about experiences. Their columns give these personalities a place to develop beyond an image. Jade takes the lead in this issue with the Cab Cabernet interview. The four voices come together for the house roundtable, where each brings a different point of view to the conversation. Cab plans to bring KGG representatives along on upcoming book tours and to other events, giving readers a chance to meet the team in person. The brownstone setting supports that world. Its artwork, warm light, vintage references and music imagery suggest a place where different interests can meet. There is room for fashion, a record, a conversation about business or an argument about a film. The magazine takes that room and gives it pages. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 10

KGL JADE / THE STANDARD Confidence without the noise Composure is a practice, not a performance. BY JADE The loudest person in a room does not always set its direction. Often it is the person who knows why she is there. I like a clear intention: a conversation worth having, a decision that needs making or an evening I intend to enjoy. The outfit should support that intention. My place in the KGG world is leadership. That means giving other personalities enough room to be distinct. Scarlett’s fashion instinct, Suki’s precision and Isabella’s warmth are strengths because they are not interchangeable. A group becomes more interesting when its members do not have to disappear into the same pose. I admire that breadth in Mr. Cabernet’s creative vision. He can connect a shoe, a recording and a dinner table without asking them to perform the same task. The connection is a standard of attention. The details should make sense, and the experience should feel considered. For the reader, confidence can begin with preparation. Read the invitation. Understand the setting. Choose clothing you can sit, walk and speak in comfortably. Give yourself enough time to arrive without carrying the journey into the room. Small practical choices leave more attention for the people in front of you. And listen. A person with presence does not need to fill every pause. Ask a question you actually want answered. Remember a name. Be willing to learn something that changes your view. Good manners are useful because they make contact easier. My standard this month is simple: let preparation do some of the work that performance tries to do. You will have more room to be yourself. Preparation leaves room for personality. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 11

KGL SCARLETT / THE DRESSING ROOM An entrance is only the beginning The best outfit lets you take part in the evening. BY SCARLETT A look can make a beautiful first impression and still be wrong for the night. If I have to keep thinking about the hem, the shoe or the neckline, the outfit is taking too much of my attention. I want fashion to give me freedom, not a second job. I begin with the occasion. A dinner, an opening, a performance and a day by the water offer different kinds of movement. Then I choose the line of the outfit. Color, fabric and accessories come after that. A luminous fabric already speaks; it may not need a full conversation in jewelry. Champagne gold is a favorite in my KGG wardrobe because it changes with the light. Beside burgundy, it feels warm. Against black, it becomes sharper. The Krushed Grapes palette allows an evening look to have richness without relying on a different color for every item. Mr. Cabernet understands atmosphere. His creative world gives clothing a room, a soundtrack and a reason to be worn. That makes styling more interesting than simply assembling attractive pieces. I want to know what the outfit contributes to the whole picture. Before leaving, I like a practical check: sit down, take a few steps, lift the bag, try the coat. It is easier to change an uncomfortable detail at home than to manage it all evening. Then stop adjusting. There are people to meet and things to notice. The entrance matters. So does being able to stay, laugh, listen and enjoy what you dressed for. Choose the outfit that can do both. Choose the occasion before the accessory. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 12

KGL SUKI / THE CREATIVE BRIEF The case for one good idea Clarity is an advantage in a crowded world. BY SUKI A creative project can become crowded before it becomes clear. Another color, another slogan, another animation, another explanation. Each addition may look useful on its own. Together, they can hide the idea that made the project worth doing. My first question is about purpose. What should someone understand, feel or do after meeting the work? A film, a product photograph and an invitation will answer differently. The design needs to support that answer. It does not need to display every possible skill at once. That is why this magazine has a different job from a shop. A shop helps someone inspect and order a product. A magazine gives an idea space to develop. The reader should be allowed to linger, disagree, discover a person and turn a page without being pushed immediately toward a transaction. I value Mr. Cabernet’s ability to think across disciplines. His music, fashion and storytelling have a shared personality, but each medium can use its own strengths. The task is to make the relationship visible without making every piece of work look identical. For a brand or an independent creator, try writing one plain sentence before opening a design program. Say what the project is for. Then remove the details that compete with that sentence. Keep the ones that make it more specific. Restraint is not an absence of ambition. It is a decision about where ambition belongs. A clear idea gives the audience something to remember after the screen, the room or the page has changed. Give the reader something to remember. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 13

KGL ISABELLA / THE SOCIAL LIFE Make the room feel like an invitation Warmth is the detail people carry home. BY ISABELLA I love an occasion with a little glamour. I also notice the moment when someone arrives and does not know where to stand. The welcome is part of the design. A beautiful room becomes more generous when somebody makes it easy to enter. Give people a useful introduction. A name is a beginning; a shared interest gives them somewhere to go. One guest may make music and another may be interested in how a recording comes together. One may know the city and another may be visiting. A small connection can turn politeness into conversation. Travel invites a useful question: what would help me feel comfortable here? Imagine arriving as the guest, then make the important details clear. Directions, a realistic meeting time and a little local context can make an unfamiliar place feel less formal. Mr. Cabernet’s world brings pleasure and hospitality into the same frame. I admire that instinct. The wine, the music and the setting matter, but the guest has to be able to enjoy them. A thoughtful host leaves room for different preferences. My suggestion for the month is to make one part of the evening easier for someone else. Offer a seat. Introduce the quiet guest. Keep water and an alcohol-free option within reach. Let a person leave without making the departure a performance. The social life I want for KGL is stylish, curious and welcoming. A room should not require everyone to know the same names or wear the same label. Bring an interest, bring some consideration and join the conversation. Warmth finishes the room. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 14

KGL THE KGG ROUNDTABLE What makes a good evening? Four house voices consider the same invitation. JADE / THE INTENTION I want people to know why they are there and feel comfortable enough to be themselves. Preparation is a form of generosity. Mr. Cabernet’s vision gives the occasion a point of view; the host’s attention gives it life. SCARLETT / THE OCCASION I love a reason to dress. The outfit should meet the room, then allow me to forget about it. Cab understands that a look belongs to an atmosphere. My favorite detail is the one that makes the whole evening feel considered. SUKI / THE IDEA I look for clarity. The music, the setting and the invitation should have a relationship. Cab’s strength is connecting different creative disciplines. A good evening does not need every possible detail; it needs the right ones. ISABELLA / THE WELCOME I want someone to notice the guest who has just arrived. A warm introduction can do more than another decoration. I admire the hospitality in Mr. Cabernet’s world. The best occasion gives people a reason to come back. The KGG roundtable with Jade, Scarlett, Suki and Isabella. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 15

KGL THE GOOD EVENING Hospitality has a rhythm How to make a gathering feel considered without making it feel controlled. KGL EDITORIAL Begin with the arrival. A place for a coat, a clear introduction and an available seat do more for a guest than an elaborate explanation of the décor. The practical work can be quiet. That is part of its value. Plan food that allows the host to be present. A menu that requires constant last-minute attention can leave guests waiting for the person who invited them. Finish what you can before the doorbell, and leave a little flexibility in the evening. Music should have a relationship with the room. At the beginning, let people hear a greeting. During dinner, keep conversation possible. Later, the energy may change. Notice the people rather than following a rigid program. Serve the person as carefully as the drink. A guest who does not want alcohol should still receive a thoughtful choice and a proper glass. Preferences do not need an interrogation. Offer, accept the answer and move on. An evening benefits from a few anchors: a welcoming arrival, a shared meal or activity, a moment of conversation and an easy departure. Between them, leave room for something unplanned. A host can prepare the conditions for a good memory without writing every minute of it. The KG approach is an atmosphere with personality. The room should feel like someone cared enough to think about it, then relaxed enough to enjoy the people who came. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 16

KGL CAB CABERNET’S WINE OF THE DAY Cab Cabernet's Wine Of The Day A glass, an occasion and something worth noticing. Cab Cabernet for Wine of the Day. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 17

KGL CAB CABERNET’S WINE OF THE DAY Start with your own palate. The premiere pour: how to give a wine your attention. BY CAB CABERNET The glass is a beginning. Before borrowing a description from a label or somebody else’s review, I want a moment with what is actually in front of me. Look at it. Smell it. Take a small taste. Let the first impression arrive before trying to make it sound impressive. That pause is the point of Wine of the Day. A selection deserves a reason to be here: the meal it will accompany, the conversation it starts, the memory it changes. Sometimes the best discovery is finding a new preference. Sometimes it is understanding why an old one has stayed with you. I begin with the plain facts on the bottle. Producer, place and vintage belong in the notebook when they are available. Then I separate what I notice from what I like. A wine can be forceful without being my preference. A quieter bottle may become more interesting when dinner arrives. Both observations are worth keeping. For the first tasting at your own table, choose a wine you already know and a meal you enjoy. Taste a little before the food, then return to it with a bite. Ask what seems different. You do not need to discover an elaborate list of aromas. One clear observation is enough to start a useful conversation. Ask the other person what they notice before offering your verdict. A shared bottle should leave room for more than one opinion. If you disagree, be specific: the finish, the aroma, the way the glass meets the plate. The disagreement can be the interesting part. CIRCA ’41 brings three wines to the table. Cab Cabernet is a Cabernet Sauvignon, Billie Chardonnay is a Chardonnay, and Syrah Vaughn is a Syrah. All three carry the KGL crest on their 2023 labels. For today, the invitation is small: pour thoughtfully, keep water nearby, and say what you mean. A connoisseur’s vocabulary is only useful when it leads back to an experience. One clear observation is enough. For adults 21+. Enjoy responsibly. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 18

KGL THE WINE NOTEBOOK Say what you notice. A reader’s companion to Wine of the Day. KGL EDITORIAL A useful tasting note can be short. Write the wine’s name, the date, what you ate and one or two observations you could recognize again. The note is for your memory. It does not need to resemble somebody else’s vocabulary. Start with the label. Record the producer, region, vintage and other details that actually appear. If a fact is missing, leave it open rather than supplying an assumption. A photograph of the bottle can be helpful when two labels look similar. Then separate observation from preference. You might notice a strong aroma and still prefer a quieter wine. You might enjoy a bottle more with food than without it. Those are useful distinctions. They describe your experience without turning it into a universal verdict. Keep the occasion in the note. A glass after a long journey, a bottle shared over dinner and a small tasting in a quiet room have different surroundings. The company, the meal and the setting can affect what you remember. If you are choosing for a group, ask a practical question before a technical one. What do the guests usually enjoy? What will be served? Would some people prefer an alcohol-free drink? Good selection begins with the people who will be at the table. Wine of the Day will supply a recurring reason to be curious. Your own notebook supplies the continuity. Over time, you should be able to see a pattern in what you return to, what surprised you and what you want to try next. A note is useful when it helps you remember. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 19

KGL CAB CABERNET’S DINE OF THE DAY Cab Cabernet's Dine Of The Day Salmon, seared scallops and a table worth making time for. Chef Cabernet serves salmon and seared scallops. The recipe follows. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 20

KGL DINE OF THE DAY / CHEF CABERNET The seafood standard Salmon, golden scallops and asparagus with lemon-herb butter. A generous platter for two. THE KGL KITCHEN / ABOUT 35 MINUTES / SERVES 2 THE INGREDIENTS 2 salmon portions, about 180 g each 6 large sea scallops 300 g asparagus, trimmed 2 tbsp olive oil, divided 2 tbsp unsalted butter 1 lemon: zest, juice and halves 1 small garlic clove, finely chopped 1 tbsp chopped parsley or dill Salt and freshly ground black pepper 01 / PREPARE Heat the oven to 200 C / 400 F. Pat the salmon and scallops dry with clean paper towels. Keep raw seafood separate from ready-to-eat food and use a clean platter for serving. 02 / ROAST Toss the asparagus with half the oil and a little seasoning. Place on a tray with the salmon. Brush the fish with oil. Roast until the fish reaches 145 F / 63 C in the thickest part; timing varies with thickness. Remove the asparagus when tender. 03 / SEAR Season the scallops just before cooking. Heat the remaining oil in a pan. Sear without crowding, turn, and continue cooking until the centers are firm, pearly and opaque. Aim for a golden surface while checking that the middle is cooked. 04 / FINISH Reduce the heat. Add butter and garlic to the pan; stir briefly without burning the garlic. Add lemon zest and juice to taste, then the herbs. Spoon the butter over the fish and scallops on the clean platter. Add asparagus and lemon halves. 05 / SERVE Bring the platter straight to the table, with warm plates and water. For a wine selection, Billie Chardonnay is the house’s Chardonnay expression. Taste the finished dish and actual wine before making a pairing judgment. Seafood safety reference: FDA, Selecting and Serving Fresh and Frozen Seafood Safely. See the masthead. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 21

KGL KGTV Krushed Grapes TV. The Lifestyle in motion. Music, culture, conversation and the Krushed Grapes world in motion. Smart TV & mobile App coming soon. EXPLORE THROUGH THE OFFICIAL BRAND WEBSITE KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 / HOUSE ADVERTISEMENT 22

KGL HOLIDAY FASHION The invitation is yours. Rich color. A clean silhouette. Shoes with a story. KGL holiday campaign portrait. Le’ Cabernet and El Maduro are featured on the following page. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 23

KGL HOLIDAY FASHION / THE FEATURED FOOTWEAR Two sophistications. Multiple pairings. Wine or cigar inspiration: let the detail lead. LE’ CABERNET OENOPHILE FOOTWEAR EL MADURO AFICIONADO FOOTWEAR For this model, inspiration was drawn from a bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon. The dark/olive green bottle, gold accents and hand written gold script, burgundy wine colored suede, and of course the natural cork stripe, and olive cork laces, just in case there was any question or debate on what is the most sophisticated sneaker on this planet. Did I mention the shoe care accessories, and the wine crate wooden box? I beg your pardon. Chocolate brown leather/ beige suede combination - rich cocoa, nutmeg notes with a hint of mocha, rich gold leather laces. Pairs well with fine wine, brown drams, casual suits, and crisp blue denim. Conceived in Harlem USA. Handmade in Italy. Designed by a lifestyle connoisseur. Visit the official collection for current materials, fit, sizes, prices and availability. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 24

KGL STYLE / PERSONAL SIGNATURE Dress like yourself. A wardrobe should give your personality somewhere to stand. KGL STYLE Personal style becomes more convincing when the choices have a relationship to the wearer. A color you return to, a preferred silhouette or a useful piece of tailoring can create continuity. You do not need a different identity for every invitation. Begin with fit and purpose. Can you move in the clothing? Does it suit the place? Will the shoe work for the amount of walking? An outfit that answers those questions gives you more attention for the occasion itself. Then look at the palette. Burgundy, black and warm gold are part of the KG visual language. The interest comes from how they behave in different materials. A matte leather, a reflective finish and a soft fabric do not repeat a color in exactly the same way. A signature can survive a change of setting. Travel may call for a lighter layer; dinner may invite a more deliberate line. Choose what connects those situations instead of packing an entirely different wardrobe for each one. Look at an outfit as a whole before adding another item. The relationship between the hem and the shoe, or between a collar and the jacket, may matter more than another accessory. Leave one strong detail enough space to be seen. The final check is personal. If a look feels like a performance you must maintain all evening, reconsider the detail that is doing the most work. Style should be recognizable, but it should also be lived in. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 25

KGL KRUSHED GRAPES LINGERIE & SWIMWEAR Light, medium, or full bodied. Broaden your palate THE WINE-INSPIRED FASHION WORLD An invitation to the next collection. EXPLORE THROUGH THE OFFICIAL BRAND WEBSITE Coming Spring 2027. Campaign imagery presents the design direction. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 / HOUSE ADVERTISEMENT 26

KGL BEAUTY / THE FINISHING DETAIL Choose your emphasis. A quiet edit can make the whole look clearer. KGL BEAUTY A finished look does not require every feature to speak at the same volume. Choose what you want to emphasize, then consider the rest in relation to it. A deeper lip, a more defined eye or a restrained glow can give a face a clear direction. The Krushed Grapes cosmetics imagery brings the house palette to the dressing table: wine tones, warm neutrals and burgundy-and-gold packaging. The lipstick and eye offerings are part of the announced beauty collection, coming January 2027. Scarlett’s fashion instinct and Suki’s creative precision meet in this department. One begins with the occasion, the other with the idea. Both approaches ask a useful question: what is the detail meant to do? For a reader, a practical edit begins in the light where the look will be worn. Work gradually, check the relationship between the colors and stop when the intended emphasis is clear. Use the actual product directions for application and care. Bring the look back to the room before calling it finished. An evening face may be seen beneath warm lamps; a daylight appointment will reveal a different balance. A final check with the clothing and the intended light is more useful than adding another step simply because it is available. The finishing detail should still feel like part of the person. A look becomes more memorable when the expression, the clothing and the occasion are allowed to belong together. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 27

KGL KG COSMETICS KG COSMETICS Wine stain his collar. THE WINE-INSPIRED BEAUTY WORLD A considered lip. A defined eye. Your own expression. EXPLORE THROUGH THE OFFICIAL BRAND WEBSITE Coming January 2027. Campaign imagery; final product details at launch. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 / HOUSE ADVERTISEMENT 28

KGL KRUSHED GRAPES PERFUME KG PERFUME. The scent of a Lifestyle. WOMEN MEN A HOUSE SIGNATURE The fragrance world of Krushed Grapes Lifestyle. EXPLORE THROUGH THE OFFICIAL BRAND WEBSITE Coming January 2027. Final scent notes, sizes and specifications will be listed at launch. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 / HOUSE ADVERTISEMENT 29

KGL BUSINESS / THE BRAND STANDARD What does your name promise? The work after the first impression. KGL BUSINESS A brand is often introduced as an image. The name, mark, palette and photograph arrive before the customer has experienced the work. They establish an expectation. What follows determines whether the expectation was useful. A clear description is part of design. A product should be represented accurately. A service should have an understandable scope. An inquiry should lead to an answer a person can use. The practical details may not receive the largest type in a campaign, but they help make the campaign credible. For a creative founder, breadth can be a strength when the point of view remains coherent. Cab Cabernet works across music, design, film and consulting. The task is to give each area a purpose while allowing the relationships between them to remain visible. That is different from asking every medium to do the same job. A magazine can develop a story. A film can give it performance and time. A product page can settle questions about an order. The strongest connection may be a consistent standard rather than a repeated layout. If you are building a brand, begin with the promise you can actually keep. Write it plainly. Then look at the places where a person will meet it: the first photograph, the inquiry, the purchase, the delivery, the response after the sale. Ask where the experience becomes unclear. KGL’s business coverage will be interested in the people who can discuss that work honestly. The useful founder story includes decisions and tradeoffs, not only the finished image. The practical details make the promise real. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 30

KGL THE KGL INTERVIEW The man behind the lifestyle Jade interviews Cab while he is still incarcerated in a federal prison camp, ahead of his expected November 2026 release. Cab Cabernet at the KGL office. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 31

KGL JADE & CAB CABERNET / THE PRE-RELEASE INTERVIEW The business behind the story From the federal prison camp, Cab discusses the private service behind the novel, soundtrack and film. INTERVIEW BY JADE / FEDERAL PRISON CAMP / BEFORE NOVEMBER 2026 RELEASE JADE: What was Krushed Grapes before it became a larger lifestyle world? CAB CABERNET: The starting point was a private, upscale escort service for women. The woman was the client, and the experience was built around her. That is the business at the center of the story I am telling. The magazine, the music, the footwear and the other KGL brands belong to the wider creative world I am building around my interests. JADE: How did that service become THE BIZNESS OF PLEASURE? CAB CABERNET: It gave me a subject with more inside it than the public image suggests. People can look at the clothes, the company and the setting and think they have understood the entire experience. I want to get into the relationships, the ambition and the consequences. The novel is loosely inspired by a true story; it is also a work of fiction, with characters and dramatic choices. I want readers to enjoy the story without treating every scene as a sworn account of my life. JADE: Why follow Cab back to his younger years? CAB CABERNET: Because I want you to meet the person before you meet the finished presentation. In the novel, Cabell T. Cabernet begins at eighteen, broke, hungry and homeless. He has to learn. The older Cab may appear composed, but the reader has a chance to understand what came before that composure. His father’s musical references, his Harlem beginnings and his education under Marcus give the man a history. The suit becomes more interesting when you know something about the person wearing it. Photo of Cab Cabernet at the federal prison camp. The interview reflects his account. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 32

KGL JADE & CAB CABERNET / THE PRE-RELEASE INTERVIEW November on the horizon. Still in the camp, Cab looks back at the case and ahead to his expected release. INTERVIEW BY JADE / FEDERAL PRISON CAMP / BEFORE NOVEMBER 2026 RELEASE JADE: How does the federal conviction enter this story? CAB CABERNET: The federal conviction was due to my involvement in the escort service. I am still incarcerated in a federal prison camp, completing one year here, and I expect to be released in November 2026. In the account I am bringing to this project, one of my clients had a politically connected husband. He discovered that his wife was employing my services, and he was not happy about it. That discovery and the conviction belong in the story behind the story. JADE: Are you saying the husband’s reaction caused the prosecution? CAB CABERNET: I am describing the circumstances as I experienced and understand them: the service, his discovery, his reaction and the federal conviction connected with my involvement in that service. The legal record and my personal account need to remain distinguishable. Political connections, on their own, do not establish what anybody caused. JADE: Who are some of the people incarcerated alongside you? CAB CABERNET: The range includes doctors, lawyers, an AI scientist and hedge fund managers, as well as drug dealers, gun runners and cartel affiliates. Those are very different backgrounds to find in the same federal prison camp. It is part of what I want the story behind the story to hold: the range of people there, alongside what happened in my own life. Nobody’s complete story fits inside a title. JADE: What does “Free Cab Cabernet” mean as you prepare for November? CAB CABERNET: I am still here, and my release is expected in November 2026. The poster speaks to this moment. At the same time, I am preparing to promote THE BIZNESS OF PLEASURE as a novel, soundtrack and film, alongside the wider KGL brand. I want people to understand what brought me to this point and what I intend to do with the next chapter. This premiere issue is part of that preparation. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 33

KGL JADE & CAB CABERNET / THE PRE-RELEASE INTERVIEW The novel and its people The name, the mentors and the question at the center of the book. INTERVIEW BY JADE / FEDERAL PRISON CAMP / BEFORE NOVEMBER 2026 RELEASE JADE: What does Cabell T. Cabernet’s name tell us? CAB CABERNET: In the novel, his father names him with Cab Calloway and Thelonious Monk in mind. Cab is short for Cabell; the T stands for Thelonious. I like having music inside the name before the reader knows the rest of the world. The story can return to that history as Cab develops his own identity. It gives his presentation a beginning that is personal rather than purely commercial. JADE: Who keeps Cab from being the only interesting person in the room? CAB CABERNET: The ensemble has to do that work. Marcus and Veronica matter in his formative years. Connie has a history with him that the finished public image cannot replace. Sharon brings another kind of conversation. Latoya brings her own public life into the story. Dewey, Richard and Benjamin have different personalities and different ways of responding to the business. I want those differences to create situations Cab cannot settle simply by being the founder. JADE: What is the question beneath the pleasure? CAB CABERNET: What will satisfy the man who has learned to understand other people’s desires? That question gives the book somewhere to go beyond the service itself. Business, friendship, obsession, betrayal and love can ask for different things at the same time. A character may be very good at reading a room and still make a poor choice about his own life. I want the reader to feel the distance between knowing how to please somebody and knowing what to do with that knowledge. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 34

KGL JADE & CAB CABERNET / THE PRE-RELEASE INTERVIEW Give the world a sound. A screen. Why the soundtrack and film belong to the same creative idea. INTERVIEW BY JADE / FEDERAL PRISON CAMP / BEFORE NOVEMBER 2026 RELEASE JADE: What is the soundtrack’s role? CAB CABERNET: Music is part of my identity as a recording artist, songwriter and producer. The soundtrack gives this world another way to be experienced. A reader imagines a room; music can change the way that room feels. I want the sound to have its own purpose and to stay with the audience after a scene or a chapter ends. The connection should come through the mood and the work, rather than relying only on a shared title. JADE: What changes when the story becomes a film? CAB CABERNET: Performance changes it. A face, a hesitation or the way somebody sits down can complicate a line that seemed straightforward on the page. The rooms, the tailoring, the wine and the music become physical choices. I want the film to make the people inside those settings worth watching. A beautiful picture is an invitation; the character’s next decision gives the audience a reason to stay. JADE: What should audiences expect across book, audiobook, soundtrack and film? CAB CABERNET: One narrative world, with each medium allowed to do what it does well. The novel has room for earlier years and interior life. The audiobook brings voice and pacing into the experience. The soundtrack gives the world music. Film brings performance, image and time together. Official project announcements are the place for release information and final credits. Here, I want to explain the creative relationship rather than promise a date or a name that has not been confirmed. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 35

KGL JADE & CAB CABERNET / THE PRE-RELEASE INTERVIEW The KGGs. The whole lifestyle. Four house personalities and a community with more than one interest. INTERVIEW BY JADE / FEDERAL PRISON CAMP / BEFORE NOVEMBER 2026 RELEASE JADE: Where do Jade, Scarlett, Suki and Isabella fit? CAB CABERNET: The KGGs are part of the Krushed Grapes Lifestyle creative world. Jade brings leadership and composure, Scarlett brings fashion, Suki brings creative strategy, and Isabella brings the social life and hospitality. I want them to have room in the magazine, the imagery and the larger storytelling. A shared standard does not mean they have to think or look alike. JADE: How do the products and services connect? CAB CABERNET: Wine, cigars, music, art, fashion, business, pleasure and leisure are interests I bring together. Travel and health belong here as well. Oenophile Footwear draws from wine; Aficionado Footwear draws from cigar culture. CIRCA ’41, lingerie and swimwear, cosmetics, perfume, entertainment and private consulting each have a place. The connection is the point of view and the occasion they can contribute to. The magazine lets me show those relationships without turning every page into an inventory. JADE: Who belongs in the KGL community, and what should this magazine give them? CAB CABERNET: If you have a passion for those interests, you are part of the KG consumer community. You may arrive through a song and stay for a story about travel. You may like the footwear and become interested in the novel. I want a monthly magazine with editorials, the KGGs’ columns, Wine and Dine of the Day, interviews and advertisements worth looking at. It is a marketing vehicle for the brand, and it should also be a publication you want to read. Krushed Grapes is a lifestyle. Sip it slow. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 36

KGL THE FOUNDER / A CREATIVE PORTRAIT A signature across disciplines What connects a recording, a film, a shoe and a magazine? KGL EDITORIAL Look at the work together and the connections become visible. The burgundy tailoring, the bottle on the table, the record in the room and the lettering on a shoe each help establish the KG world. They appear in different media, but they invite the same question: what kind of life does this suggest? Cab remains incarcerated in a federal prison camp as this interview is set, approaching the end of one year there. His release is expected in November 2026. He is preparing to promote the featured KGL projects and products: the novel, soundtrack and film, along with the broader lifestyle brand. The Free Cab campaign belongs to the present moment of this issue; the promotional work looks toward his release. Cab Cabernet’s creative practice crosses music, writing, design, film and private consulting. That breadth is a useful starting point for a magazine. A single publication can follow an idea from its first visual reference through its practical expression, then ask what the result gives its audience. THE BIZNESS OF PLEASURE supplies the dramatic center of this premiere. Its protagonist learns the value of presentation and the difficulty of understanding desire. The lifestyle brand gives those subjects a public visual language. The reader does not have to confuse fiction with biography to see why the two belong in the same conversation. The KGGs give the house four more ways to speak. Jade considers leadership and composure. Scarlett looks at the occasion through fashion. Suki examines the creative decision. Isabella notices the welcome. Their differences make the shared setting more useful than a repeated slogan. The strongest part of a signature is the decision behind it. Why that color? Why that line? Why this medium for this story? A founder who works in several disciplines has to answer those questions more than once. A familiar name can open the door, but each piece of work has to hold its own. That is the editorial opportunity here. We can put the campaign beside the idea, the object beside the occasion, and the public image beside the questions it raises. A magazine gives the reader time to look again. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 37

KGL CAB CABERNET / PRIVATE CONSULTING Make the occasion yours. CREATIVE DIRECTION. BRAND STRATEGY. LIFESTYLE EXPERIENCES. Bring the occasion, the idea or the business brief. Begin a conversation with Cab Cabernet. EXPLORE THROUGH THE OFFICIAL BRAND WEBSITE KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 / HOUSE ADVERTISEMENT 38

KGL FREE CAB CABERNET The Story Behind the Story Free Cab Cabernet campaign artwork, presented in its pre-release context. Cab remains in the federal prison camp and expects release in November 2026. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 39

KGL FREE CAB CABERNET / THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY The photograph and the public image A year in a federal prison camp, an expected November release, and the work ahead. KGL EDITORIAL Two sets of images meet in the “Free Cab Cabernet” campaign. One shows a man in ordinary clothes, outdoors, sitting on a picnic bench or standing with other men. The other presents the polished world of THE BIZNESS OF PLEASURE: the hat, the tailored jacket, the cigar, the wine and the room arranged around a central figure. The difference is the campaign’s strongest editorial device. Clothing, setting and posture carry information before the reader reaches a line of text. Placed together, the pictures ask what remains of a public identity when its familiar surroundings have been removed. The campaign artwork identifies the outdoor setting as a federal prison camp and gives an expected release month of November 2026. Cab’s interview is set while he remains incarcerated there, completing one year. He is preparing to promote the featured KGL projects and products on release. The poster and the interview therefore speak from the same point in the story. “The Story Behind the Story” is an invitation to hear a fuller account. A life and a work inspired by it do not become interchangeable because they share a name. A novel can compress time, invent scenes and give a character a choice that real events never offered. A public campaign has a different purpose: to tell readers how its subject wants the present moment understood. Cab recalls meeting people from very different walks of life during his year at the camp. That range of backgrounds is part of what he remembers about the place. An expected November release gives the campaign a forward direction. Cab’s focus is the promotion of KRUSHED GRAPES: THE BIZNESS OF PLEASURE across the novel, soundtrack and film, alongside the products and projects within Krushed Grapes Lifestyle. The photographs of confinement belong to his present account. The creative work is what he intends to bring to the audience in the next chapter. For this premiere, the campaign is given its own space. Read the pictures with the words, and keep the distinctions in view: the creator, the character, the campaign and the documented facts. The story is more interesting when those boundaries are clear. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 40

KGL CULTURE / THE STORY WORLD The Bizness of Pleasure One narrative universe across the page, the voice, the recording and the screen. KGL CULTURE At eighteen, Cabell T. Cabernet is broke, hungry and homeless. A chance encounter in a Manhattan diner changes his direction. Veronica and Marcus LeClair bring him into a world where appearance is a language and attention can become a livelihood. He has much to learn, and the lessons do not all arrive as advice. Years later, Cab has built Krushed Grapes, an exclusive all-male escort service for women. The public image is composed: tailored clothes, fine wine, beautiful rooms and a man who appears to understand what everyone wants. Behind it are the pressures of running a business built around intimacy. That is the premise of KRUSHED GRAPES: THE BIZNESS OF PLEASURE. The novel follows the distance between learning to please people and learning what will satisfy oneself. Business, friendship, obsession, betrayal and love put that distance under pressure. The book can move between Cab’s younger years and his later life as a founder. The contrast matters. A practiced gesture carries more weight when the reader knows what it cost to learn it. Confidence may be convincing without being complete. The audiobook, soundtrack and film extend the same narrative into different experiences. Listening gives a voice its space. Music can carry an emotion past the end of a scene. Film makes the room, the silence and the distance between people visible. None has to reproduce every move the novel makes. This issue approaches the project from each direction: the origins of its central character, the relationships around him, the objects that tell the story and the ways a scene changes when it reaches the screen. The question at the center remains personal: what happens when a man who studies everyone else’s desires has to confront his own? A world changes when a character speaks. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 41

KGL THE BIZNESS OF PLEASURE / ORIGINS Before the tailored suit Harlem, a musical name and an education in attention. KGL EDITORIAL Cabell T. Cabernet has a name with a rhythm behind it. In the story’s family history, his father names him for Cab Calloway and Thelonious Monk. Cab is short for Cabell; the middle initial stands for Thelonious. Before the business acquires its name, the boy carries an artistic inheritance in his own. The Harlem origin gives the novel a place to begin. The finished image of Cab can seem self-contained, as though the man arrived with the suit, the vocabulary and the room already chosen. The younger years interrupt that impression. At eighteen, he is trying to find food, shelter and a way forward. The expansion of those years allows training to become part of the drama. Marcus is more than a source of rules. Lessons in etiquette change the way Cab reads a room: how people signal discomfort, how a conversation is opened, how a gesture can make somebody feel included or examined. The language matters. Cab’s later voice reflects that education. His composure should be audible as well as visible. The reader ought to sense the practice behind the ease, even when he would prefer the effort to remain unseen. Veronica and Connie belong to different parts of that education. Each relationship asks something beyond learning how to look convincing. Affection, dependence, ambition and the wish to be understood do not organize themselves as neatly as a wardrobe. The years from eighteen to twenty-six give the novel room to connect those experiences with the founder in his thirties. A flashback earns its place when it changes the meaning of the present. A familiar ritual can become moving, troubling or unexpectedly vulnerable once the reader knows its beginning. That is the promise of going back. The younger Cab should complicate the older one. The suit may fit beautifully. The history inside it is still moving. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 42

KGL THE BIZNESS OF PLEASURE / THE ENSEMBLE Nobody builds a lifestyle alone The people who make Cab’s control more complicated. KGL EDITORIAL DEWEY. The young Asian-American trainer and protégé stands close enough to the operation to see its preparations and its nerves. His own anxiety makes him a useful counterpoint to the assurance the business sells. Instruction can sound confident even when the instructor is still learning how to steady himself. RICHARD ENLEAVUM. African-American, direct and physically assured, Richard brings an attitude that tailoring cannot simply erase. His confidence offers energy and potential friction. The dramatic interest lies in what the job asks him to adjust, and what he insists on keeping. BENJAMIN DEMOVER. A slim Caucasian-American former facts checker with glasses, Benjamin approaches the new world with a different set of instincts. Precision and politeness are assets, but information does not always settle an intimate encounter. He has to work without the comfort of a single correct answer. SHARON. The Latina-American psychiatrist offers another kind of room and another kind of attention. A conversation in her office can examine the story Cab tells about himself. A man accustomed to reading other people may find it harder to allow the reading to go in the opposite direction. LATOYA AND CONNIE. Both African-American, they occupy distinct emotional territory. Latoya’s public life as an actress changes the context of an encounter. Connie, a professor and an earlier lover and mentor, carries the weight of a relationship that helped shape Cab before the finished image. VERONICA AND MARCUS. Their place in Cab’s formative years makes the present answerable to the past. The novel’s mentors can give him knowledge and opportunity. The choices made with that education remain his own. An ensemble becomes a story when these different temperaments want things at the same time. The interesting question is rarely who looks most at home in the room. It is who can change what happens there. Each person changes the room. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 43

KGL THE BIZNESS OF PLEASURE / RELATIONSHIPS The cost of being understood Attention is the business. Intimacy changes the terms. KGL EDITORIAL A business organized around desire depends on the ability to read people. Notice a preference. Remember a detail. Understand what has been requested and what remains unsaid. The skill can be cultivated, but it does not guarantee that the person using it understands himself. Cab’s central contradiction lives there. He is building an enterprise that makes other people feel seen while protecting a carefully composed image of his own. The better that image works, the easier it may become to hide behind it. Success can reward the very habit that makes honesty difficult. The distinction between professional attention and personal affection is rich dramatic territory. A gesture may be practiced and still feel sincere. A remembered detail may begin as part of the work and become meaningful. The novel can stay with that uncertainty long enough to make it uncomfortable. Connie’s place in Cab’s earlier life gives intimacy a history. Sharon’s office gives self-examination a setting. Latoya brings a public identity into a private encounter. Each relationship changes the circumstances under which Cab can remain convincing. The business adds another layer. Dewey, Richard and Benjamin are not simply extensions of the founder’s will. Their personalities create different promises, different vulnerabilities and different ways for a carefully planned assignment to become unpredictable. There is no need for every scene to announce the theme. Let a withheld answer do its work. Let a character choose the wrong moment for the right question. Let the room remain beautiful while the conversation becomes difficult. The contrast is one of the pleasures of this story world. By the time business, friendship and love begin asking for incompatible loyalties, Cab’s talent for pleasing people has become a harder test. He cannot make every choice attractive to everyone. The story begins to ask what he is willing to disappoint in order to become more honest. A polished image can still conceal an unanswered question. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 44

KGL KRUSHED GRAPES / THE NOVEL KRUSHED GRAPES: THE BIZNESS OF PLEASURE At eighteen, Cabell T. Cabernet is hungry, homeless and looking for a way forward. Years later, he has built a business around understanding what women want. The desire he has yet to understand is his own. A NOVEL BY MR. CAB CABERNET BOOK / AUDIOBOOK / SOUNDTRACK / FILM FOLLOW THE OFFICIAL PROJECT / KRUSHEDGRAPES.COM KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 / HOUSE ADVERTISEMENT 45

KGL THE WRITING ROOM / OBJECTS AND SCENES What the room knows The story can begin before anybody speaks. KGL EDITORIAL A wine glass on a desk does one kind of work. The same glass left untouched during a conversation does another. Objects become storytelling when a person’s relationship to them changes. A room can reveal what a character values and what he would rather keep out of sight. THE BIZNESS OF PLEASURE has a strong visual vocabulary: vintage décor, art, mirrors, a wine collection, dressing rooms and tailored clothes. Used carefully, those elements make the business legible without requiring a speech about its ambitions. The wardrobe room is especially useful. A man adjusting himself in a mirror is preparing an appearance and encountering his own reflection. Richard, Benjamin and Dewey can occupy similar spaces while bringing very different thoughts to the preparation. Repetition becomes a way to show difference. Cab’s office has another function. A founder’s nameplate and a carefully arranged desk tell visitors how to address him before he has spoken. The room can support his authority. It can also make a moment of uncertainty more visible because the setting continues to insist on control. The psychiatrist’s office changes the balance again. Here the arrangement asks him to talk, to pause and perhaps to hear an account of himself he has not rehearsed. A scene does not need a grand event to move the story if the character’s usual advantages have quietly changed. For a reader, these details reward attention. Notice which objects are used, which are displayed and which are ignored. Notice when the character leaves a familiar room. The visual pleasure is part of the invitation; the change in meaning is what keeps it interesting. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 46

KGL CAB CABERNET / MUSIC The Soundtrack To A Lifestyle. THE SOUNDTRACK KRUSHED GRAPES: THE BIZNESS OF PLEASURE Music is part of the atmosphere. EXPLORE THROUGH THE OFFICIAL PROJECT WEBSITE KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 / HOUSE ADVERTISEMENT 47

KGL MUSIC / THE LISTENING HOUR Let the record have the room. Why music deserves more than the background. KGL EDITORIAL A favorite recording can disappear through overfamiliarity. It plays while messages arrive, dinner is prepared and the next track is selected. The sound is present, but attention is elsewhere. Occasionally, it is worth letting the recording become the occasion. Choose a short listening session rather than a heroic plan. One side of an album, a sequence of three tracks or a song you want to hear closely can be enough. Put the phone aside. Notice the arrangement, the voice, the spaces and the decisions that keep the piece moving. Then talk about something specific. Which instrument changed the mood? Where did the performance become convincing? What did the production leave out? A useful conversation does not have to end in agreement. It needs an observation another person can follow. Cab Cabernet’s work as a recording artist, songwriter and producer gives music a central place in the KG world. The lifestyle imagery is not separate from that identity. Clothing, rooms, film and sound can tell parts of the same story. A recording also makes an invitation to ask better questions of its makers. What changed during the session? What did the arrangement leave out? Which performance made the song feel finished? The answer can give you a reason to listen again. For the reader, the assignment is pleasantly small. Pick one piece of music and give it your undivided attention. If it is worth recommending afterward, tell somebody what you heard. Tell somebody what you heard. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 48

KGL THE MOTION PICTURE KRUSHED GRAPES: THE BIZNESS OF PLEASURE Motion-picture campaign artwork. Follow the official project for release updates. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 49

KGL FILM / FROM PAGE TO SCREEN Let the silence finish the line. What changes when a story becomes a performance. KGL EDITORIAL A novel can tell the reader what Cab remembers while he holds a conversation. Film has to decide what the audience can see and hear. The adaptation begins with that choice. A look, a pause or a cut can carry an association that prose develops over a paragraph. The challenge is attractive in a world so concerned with presentation. Tailoring, posture and the layout of a room become part of a performance. A character can say the correct thing while his timing suggests that he has been caught off guard. The camera can let the audience notice the gap. Consider an assignment being prepared. A screenplay may move between Richard, Benjamin and Dewey as each faces a mirror. The repeated action makes a structure; the differences in attitude make the scene. Performance gives the ritual its nervous system. The sound deserves equal attention. Music may establish the atmosphere, but silence can unsettle it. An arrival, the sound of a glass placed down, a sentence that receives no immediate answer: these can shift the balance without adding explanation. The campaign poster gives the project an ensemble face. Cab appears above a group of characters against the city, wine and evening light. It is an invitation into a world rather than a record of a finished production. The film’s final performances, credits and release details belong to official announcements. What the story asks of the screen is already clear. Let the audience enjoy the surface, then allow a human choice to disturb it. The room remains elegant. The people inside it have something to lose. The room remains elegant. The people have something to lose. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 50

KGL ART / THE CULTURED EYE Live with something you love. A room becomes more personal when its art means something to the person in it. KGL EDITORIAL Art does not need to begin as a statement about status. It can begin with a response: a color you return to, an image that interrupts your routine, a form that makes a familiar space feel different. That response is worth examining before asking whether the work will impress a visitor. Spend time with the object. Read the artist’s account when one is available. Ask how the work was made, what materials it uses and what the seller can establish about its origin. A decision becomes more satisfying when affection and basic information can meet. Think about the room as a place to live. Light, scale and the path through the space influence the way a work is seen. An image that needs close looking may be lost across a large room. A small piece can have presence when it is given a useful position. The jazz portrait in the KGL brownstone imagery is part of its cultural setting. It connects the room with performance, sound and a history of artistic expression. The point is not to fill every wall. It is to choose references that make the space feel inhabited. The artist’s process adds another way into a work. A photograph, a sketch or an account of the material can make a familiar image less familiar. Give the maker’s explanation a hearing, then spend a little more time looking for yourself. Begin with a simple question: if nobody else saw this piece, would I still want to live with it? The answer may tell you more about your taste than a wall full of recognizable names. Start with the response. Then learn more. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 51

KGL LEISURE / A DIFFERENT PACE Off the clock. A coast-road campaign portrait. The leather-jacket mood. A public image can have more than one tempo. These portraits trade the formal table for the open road and the quiet of an afternoon at home. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 52

KGL TRAVEL / VENICE Arrive. Then wander. A city deserves more than the view from the photograph. Venice photo. Destination notes below. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 53

KGL TRAVEL / VENICE NOTEBOOK Take the longer way round. Start with a neighborhood, and give it an afternoon. KGL EDITORIAL A canal-side photograph makes Venice seem immediately knowable: water, stone, a bridge and the light. A visit becomes more interesting when the picture gives way to the ordinary decisions of a place. Which direction will you walk? Where will you pause? What deserves a closer look? Cannaregio offers one way into that question. Venice’s official visitor information describes the district as an arrival point for rail travelers and a neighborhood with some of the city’s oldest and most monumental buildings. That combination makes a useful starting idea: look beyond the transfer and spend time in the place through which you are passing. Choose one cultural anchor rather than treating every doorway as an appointment. The official district guide identifies Ca’ d’Oro as the home of the Franchetti art collection. It also points to Santa Maria dei Miracoli among the area’s sights. Use those names as the beginning of research, then check current access and hours directly before planning a visit. The rest of the afternoon can remain modest. Walk at a pace that allows you to notice the buildings, the working city and the people moving through it. Keep a route back available, but do not make every turn accountable to a photograph you have already seen. For dinner, begin with the experience you want rather than a list of fashionable names. A quiet conversation and a celebratory table call for different rooms. Ask specific questions about the menu, dietary needs and the setting before making a reservation. The practical answers are part of hospitality. This is a destination notebook, not a package or a record of Cab’s travels. The supplied image establishes a mood. The real place deserves current information, a considered budget and enough time to become something more than a backdrop. Give yourself enough time in Venice for a familiar street to turn into a favorite one. Destination reference: Venezia Unica, Cannaregio. Full link in the publication notes. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 54

KGL TRAVEL / THE UNHURRIED WEEKEND Leave room for the place. A considered trip has space for discovery. KGL TRAVEL A weekend can become crowded before the bag is packed. Three restaurants, a museum, a show, a long transfer and an early departure may look impressive in a plan. The experience can feel like a sequence of apologies for being late. Begin with the reason for going. Is the trip about rest, food, art, business, a celebration or time with another person? Choose one or two anchors that serve that reason. Then work out the travel between them. A plan becomes more useful when it acknowledges the distance on the map. Leave the first hour after arrival relatively open. A delayed journey should not immediately spoil the evening. Allow time to check in, change and understand the surroundings. A city is easier to meet when you are not already behind. Ask local questions with a little specificity. Instead of requesting the best of everything, say what interests you: a quiet place to talk, a performance with a particular sound, an afternoon devoted to art. A useful answer often depends on the quality of the question. Give one part of the trip permission to remain undecided. A walk, a neighborhood, a café or the chance to return to a place you enjoyed can become the detail you remember. Curiosity needs a little unscheduled time. KGL travel coverage will treat a destination as more than a backdrop for a photograph. We want the people who host it, the food and music that give it character, the practical details that make it accessible and the choices that make a visit your own. The itinerary should support the visit. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 55

KGL TRAVEL / ARRIVAL MATTERS Travel well before you arrive. A practical brief for business, pleasure and the space between. KGL TRAVEL Good preparation reduces the number of decisions that must be made while tired. Confirm the essentials before departure: identification, reservations, arrival details and the practical requirements of the destination. Use current official sources for entry rules and any health requirements; a magazine feature is not a substitute for them. Plan the first transfer. Know how you intend to leave the station or airport, how long it may take and how to contact your accommodation. Keep the address in a form you can access without a perfect connection. A little practical certainty makes it easier to enjoy the unfamiliar. Pack around the trip you are actually taking. A business meeting, a dinner and a day outdoors may require different clothing, but they can share a compact palette. Choose footwear suited to the amount of walking. Leave space for a layer and the things you use every day. If you are traveling with someone, agree on the important parts before the journey. Talk about spending, pace, privacy and the activities that matter most. Separate interests do not need to become a dispute. A well-planned hour apart can make a shared evening better. For a special occasion, a lifestyle consultation can help shape the brief. KGI’s role in the KG world is to explore a tailored experience around the person, the purpose and the setting. Availability, scope and arrangements should be agreed directly. The aim is not a trip without surprises. It is enough preparation to meet the surprises with some room left in the day. Prepare the essentials. Keep some room in the day. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 56

KGL STYLE & LEISURE / THE OCCASION Dress for the daylight. A race-day mood with room to move. KGL EDITORIAL Evening style can rely on the room doing some of the work. Daylight is more direct. Color becomes clearer, fabric is easier to read and a hat announces its shape from a distance. The race-day campaign image takes that opportunity seriously: navy tailoring, floral dresses and sculptural headwear. The palette succeeds because it allows a hierarchy. Navy gives the central silhouette a calm outline. Pink and green add a brighter surrounding rhythm. The outfits do not need to match to look as though they belong at the same occasion. For an outdoor invitation, begin with the time you will spend on your feet. Choose a shoe for the surface and the walk, then build the rest of the outfit around that practical decision. A beautiful entrance should not make the rest of the day uncomfortable. A hat or fascinator deserves a rehearsal with the rest of the clothing. Check how it sits, how it travels and whether the coat or collar interferes with it. The detail that looks effortless in a photograph may benefit from a few quiet minutes before leaving home. The same care applies to hosting. Make meeting points clear, keep water available and allow people a seat and a pause. An occasion lasts longer than its first photograph. The best styling leaves you free to participate in it. The setting here is a race-day campaign scene. For any actual event, check its current admission arrangements and dress guidance directly. The idea worth keeping is the relationship between style and the day you intend to enjoy. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 57

KGL LEISURE / OPEN WATER Room for the horizon There is pleasure in letting the day have a slower pace. Cab Cabernet. Yacht side. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 58

KGL HEALTH / THE LONG GAME Take care of the life you enjoy. Health is a standing part of the KGL lifestyle. KGL HEALTH An ambitious life can make maintenance look uninteresting. A meeting feels urgent, an invitation feels rare and a flight has a fixed departure. Sleep, movement and routine care are easier to postpone because their value is not announced by an event reminder. This department gives them a place in the conversation. It is interested in the practical conditions that support a full life: rest, everyday activity, nourishing meals, time outdoors, meaningful connection and the appropriate professional care for an individual’s needs. A useful health page gives the reader something practical to do and a clear account of where the advice comes from. In this issue, the focus is ordinary: make time for sleep and build movement into a week. The sources are public-health agencies, rather than a product promising to do the work for you. A working calendar reveals priorities. Put a reasonable bedtime in it. Find a place for movement. Keep routine appointments visible. The point is to make care part of the plan before the invitations and deadlines fill every available hour. The brand’s interest in wine and cigars does not turn those products into wellness recommendations. Health coverage has its own standards. Readers deserve a clear distinction between an adult cultural ritual and a claim about health. For the opening issue, we begin with two ordinary subjects that deserve attention: sleep and physical activity. Their familiarity should not make them disappear behind the next elaborate routine. Care belongs on the calendar. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 59

KGL HEALTH / REST Sleep belongs on the itinerary. Protect the quiet part of a full life. KGL HEALTH A calendar can look organized while leaving too little time for sleep. The first step is to make the time visible. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute advises giving yourself enough time to sleep and keeping a consistent bedtime and wake time. It also recommends a quiet, cool and dark bedroom. Those are practical conditions, not luxury products. A calm room does not have to be elaborate. The useful question is whether the space and the schedule make rest possible. A plan that relies on being exhausted enough to ignore every interruption is not much of a plan. NHLBI also recommends quiet time before bed and avoiding bright artificial light during that period. It advises avoiding alcohol before bedtime and notes that nicotine and caffeine can interfere with sleep. An evening ritual should take those effects into account rather than assuming that a drink will provide restorative rest. A travel day can make a familiar routine difficult. Think about what you can carry over: a realistic opportunity to sleep, a quieter last hour and the practical items that make the room usable. The point is not to turn a trip into a perfect schedule. It is to avoid treating rest as whatever is left after every other activity. For someone with persistent sleep problems, the next step is a conversation with a qualified healthcare professional. A magazine can offer general information and questions worth asking; it cannot explain an individual’s symptoms from a distance. In the KGL calendar, an evening can be memorable without becoming endless. Let the good night include a good ending. Let the good night include a good ending. NHLBI, Healthy Sleep Habits: nhlbi.nih.gov/health/sleep-deprivation/healthy-sleep-habits KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 60

KGL HEALTH / MOVEMENT A week that moves. Make activity a part of the ordinary calendar. KGL HEALTH Physical activity is easier to overlook when it is imagined only as a large block of time in a particular place. A week can include different opportunities to move. The plan should be realistic enough to survive work, travel and the commitments that are already in the diary. The CDC’s adult guidelines call for at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity activity each week, or 75 minutes of vigorous activity, or an equivalent combination. They also call for muscle-strengthening activity on at least two days a week. The activity can be spread through the week rather than completed in one session. For planning purposes, that flexibility matters. Look at where time actually exists. Decide what you can repeat. A manageable routine is more useful than an ambitious promise that depends on an unusually empty week. Choice and ability matter too. The CDC describes activity in relation to individual effort and notes the importance of choosing activities suited to your abilities. If you are unsure what is appropriate for a health condition, discuss your plan with a qualified professional. Travel offers a useful test of the routine. Consider what can happen without special equipment or a complicated transfer. A walk that suits your ability, an available facility or a shorter session may fit the day. Avoid making exercise another reason to punish yourself for an imperfect schedule. This magazine’s interest is in a life with enough energy and attention for the things that matter. Movement belongs beside work and leisure, with a plan you can return to after an interruption. Choose a routine you can return to. CDC, Adult Activity: An Overview: cdc.gov/physical-activity-basics/guidelines/adults.html KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 61

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KGL THE CIGAR ROOM The ritual and the room Consideration belongs in an aficionado’s vocabulary. KGL EDITORIAL Cigar culture has a language of its own: the object, the cut, the setting, the company and the pause. A magazine can appreciate those rituals while remaining clear about the practical boundaries of a shared space. Ask before assuming a cigar is welcome. A setting suitable for one person may be uncomfortable for another. Use a permitted area and respect the preferences of guests and staff. The privilege of choosing an experience does not remove the obligation to consider the people beside you. Give the ritual a proper place. A stable ashtray, a clear surface and a safe way to dispose of the finished cigar are part of the occasion. Keep the working area separate from food and belongings. Follow the venue’s rules rather than treating them as a negotiation. For a newcomer, a useful conversation begins with a preference and a question. Describe what you are looking for and listen to an informed tobacconist. There is little value in pretending familiarity. The same principle applies to wine, music or art: curiosity is more interesting than borrowed expertise. CIRCA ’41 cigars have a signature leather ring. The house specifies long filler, Cuban seed, a Brazilian wrapper and hand rolling in Nicaragua. The new ring branding brings the CIRCA ’41 mark and current KGL crest onto the textured leather. “Taste the Lifestyle” is the cigar line’s invitation. A considered ritual is also a considered choice. Cigars carry health risks; the health pages of this magazine do not describe smoking as a wellness practice. Adults can appreciate a cultural subject without confusing its atmosphere with a health benefit. Consider the people beside you. For adults 21+. Tobacco use carries health risks. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 63

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KGL ADVERTISING & PARTNERSHIPS Meet a reader with interests. Not just an impression. Wine. Food. Cigars. Music. Art. Fashion. Business. Travel. Health. Pleasure. Leisure. KGL MAGAZINE welcomes advertising inquiries from brands whose work belongs in this conversation. A focused one-page advertisement gives a product, service or experience room to make its own case. We are interested in relevant craftsmanship, hospitality, culture and thoughtful experiences. Paid placements will be clearly labeled. PARTNER OPPORTUNITIES ARE OPEN. ADVERTISING INQUIRIES / OFFICIAL BRAND CONTACT KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 65

KGL THE CLOSING POUR Enjoy the day you are in. A final word from the editor. BY MR. CABERNET I am still incarcerated in the federal prison camp as this issue takes shape, with my release expected in November 2026. There is work in front of me: promoting the novel, soundtrack and film, introducing the KGL projects and products, and continuing to build the community around them. This premiere issue is part of that preparation. It gives the work a room and invites you inside. The lifestyle I want to build has room for both. Make the work. Think about the business. Keep the promises. Then notice the music you selected, the meal you prepared and the person who made time to sit across from you. That is why wine and dining belong beside travel, health, art and enterprise in this magazine. They are different ways of asking how a day should be lived. The answer should include pleasure, but it should also include attention and care. I want the monthly rhythm of KGL MAGAZINE to give the conversation continuity. A column can return to a question from another angle. A new voice can challenge an assumption. A product can become more interesting when its maker explains the decisions behind it. Our first issue establishes that room. The next work is to fill it with honest detail: the actual wine tasted, the meal cooked, the guest interviewed, the design refined and the experience worth recommending. The standard should rise through the work. Bring something of your own to the next conversation: a subject worth exploring, a maker whose work deserves attention, a dish, a destination or an artist with something to say. Editorial and advertising inquiries can begin through the official Cab Cabernet and Krushed Grapes Lifestyle contact routes. Krushed Grapes is a lifestyle. Sip it slow. The standard should rise through the work. KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 66

KGL MASTHEAD KGL MAGAZINE NO. 01 / NOVEMBER 2026 / THE BIZNESS OF PLEASURE ISSUE THE LIFESTYLE MONTHLY Publisher: Krushed Grapes Lifestyle Editor in Chief: Cab Cabernet Signature column: Confessions Of A Lifestyle Connoisseur House contributors: Jade, Scarlett, Suki and Isabella. RESEARCH / HEALTH CDC, Adult Activity: An Overview cdc.gov/physical-activity-basics/guidelines/adults.html NHLBI, Healthy Sleep Habits nhlbi.nih.gov/health/sleep-deprivation/healthy-sleep-habits Checked November 6, 2026. General health information; individual concerns belong with a qualified professional. RESEARCH / FOOD & VENICE FDA, Selecting and Serving Seafood Safely fda.gov/food/buy-store-serve-safe-food/selecting-and-serving-fr esh-and-frozen-seafood-safely Venezia Unica, Cannaregio veneziaunica.it/en/things-to-do-in-venice/venice-areas/sestieri/c annaregio Destination reference checked November 6, 2026. Recheck access, opening hours, reservations and visitor requirements before travel. CONTACT cabcabernet.com krushedgrapeslifestyle.com krushedgrapes.com KGL MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2026 67

PICK FROM THE VINE DIVINE, WALK IN YOUR FAVORITE WINE. LE’ CABERNET A Krushed Grapes Lifestyle brand by Cab Cabernet KRUSHEDGRAPESLIFESTYLE.COM