The week in pictures

It’s been quite a week for the drinks business‘ team. Festivals, football, quiz nights and a spot of pig farming were just some of the highlights. We look back on the week that was.

 

 

 

 

 

Sky Sports News presenter Georgie Thompson combines glamour, football and Gallo as she fronts a campaign for the Californian wine brand’s rosé portfolio

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The French: Good at Grenache, not so good at driving

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

db joins the throng of sweaty, sun-burned fans cheering on England in their World Cup match against the USA at the Isle of Wight Festival

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Before it all went wrong: db‘s Alan Lodge (left) is all smiles before England keeper Robert Green did his best to kill the festival buzz.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Team Grenache at La Verriére in the sunny southen Rhóne raise a toast to the Grenache Symposium

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A steel band adds some colour to the Taste of London festival in Regent’s Park.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nyetimber’s impressive stand ensured that visitors to the Taste of London festival got their chance to try some English wines.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mount Gay erected a beach-hut bar at the Taste of London festival to bring some Caribbean flavour to the occasion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Football fatigue: db’s Jane Parkinson’s pigs are too tired to stand while eating

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bruno Murciano – "Spain’s Best Sommelier in 2008" – and Castillo Perelada’s winemaker Delfi Sanahuja Font enjoy a drop of 5 Fincas Reserva at London’s Iberica Restaurant

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bartenders in full flow behind the Jack Daniel’s bar at the Isle of Wight festival

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Meanwhile festival-goers relax with a cocktail or two in the Jack Daniel’s garden

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bonny Doon’s Randall Grahm signs a copy of his book, Been Doon So Long, for Wine Institute of California’s Venla Freeman, at FMV’s London offices, after a tasting of Le Cigare Volant 2005.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Russian Standard cocktail bar was a huge hit with punters at the Taste of London Festival

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

db team members (l-r) Alan Lodge, Rupert Millar, Emily Ashbolt and Bert Cason exercise the old grey matter at the Diageo Media Pub Quiz in London

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

db‘s Rupert Millar understandably beams after winning a bottle of 2000 vintage Dom Perignon in the spot-prize round at the Diageo Media Pub Quiz

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Castillo Perelada Solanes Priorat slipped down rather too easily despite its stated 14.5% abv at Perelada’s food and wine matching at Iberica Restaurant, where chef Nacho Manzano, from the two-Michelin-starred Casa Marcial in Asturias, created a special 10-course grazing menu

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pink put on a spectacular set at the Isle of Wight Festival

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The singer swoops above the Isle of Wight crowd as her energetic performance reaches new heights

db,18.06.2010