Week in pictures

This weeks selection of snaps takes in db‘s day out at the Salon Privé super car show at Hurlingham, biker chicks and terrible kilts.

 

 

 

 

 

db‘s senior staff writer Gabby Savage (l) and deputy editor Jane Parkinson (r) refused to let anyone else see what was on Jane’s screen as they sipped Pommery ’92 at the Salon Privé super car show at the Hurlingham Club, so draw your own conclusions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

db editor Patrick Schmitt (l) and editorial assistant Rupert Millar (r) were in their element as they wandered around the show. Here they are admiring a 1952 Jaguar XK120 Fixed Head Coupé.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Licence to thrill: Excitment levels reached fever pitch as we stumbled across the bad guy’s car from the James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sensing an opportunity, db news and web editor Alan Lodge leaped behind the wheel, but was disappointed to learn the machine gun no longer worked. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Back to base: The Pommery tent where the Champagne brand kept the team refreshed throughout the day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blue Steel: editor Patrick Schmitt tried to look the part as he hopped behind the wheel of a Rolls Royce Phantom.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Drink-driver: Surely there must be some sort of law about driving with a glass of Pommery in your hand.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alan enjoyed incessantly kicking the back of Gabby’s chair as she tried out a Bentley for size.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Punters relax at The Cloudy Bay shack in Parson’s Green with a glass or two from the brand’s range paired with dishes specially created by chef Tom Aikens.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Members of the wine press make their way around a fine selection at the Wines of South Africa Taste the Earth tasting at South Africa House in London.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dignitaries line up for a spot of ribbon cutting – Asian style – to celebrate the first permanent listing of Louis XIII de Rémy Martin in Asia, at Hong Kong International Airport.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

db‘s Rupert Millar checks out the selection adorning the walls of the newly-opened Durius River Café below the offices of United Wineries at Broken Wharf, London.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aside from a magnificent wine list, the restaurant serves up a typically Spanish summer selection of meats, cheeses and breads…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

…and, of course, salads for those wanting to watch their waistline.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alcohol awareness charity Drinkaware tries to capture idyllic scenes of friends enjoying a drink in the summer sunshine at The Argyll Arms on Argyll Street, London.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Easy rider: Washington’s rocking winemaker Charles Smith (l) offers db’s lucky Jane Parkinson (middle), and BBC Good Food’s Sarah Jane Evans MW, a lift back to his place on the back of his Harley. To taste wine, obviously.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We’re drammin’: A selection of fine whiskies at the IWSC spirits tasting at the Innholders’ Hall in London

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And finally: db isn’t normally one for taking pics of stranger’s backside’s, but the sight of this gentleman’s black leather kilt flapping in the wind as we approached our office was one of the strangest things we’ve seen all year.

db, 30.07.2010