Week in pictures

Tattooed ladies, sweaty tennis players and one of life’s most enduring questions, welcome to our latest photo round-up of the week just gone.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hobgoblin unveils a new hand pull at this week’s Great British Beer Festival. The new hand pull has a ‘longbow’ design that creates greater stand out on the bar, while still retaining the traditional hand pull action.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No fewer than 2,000 Londoners walked through the doors of the Hornitos Tequila pop-up tattoo parlour off Brick Lane to get their hands on some temporary body art tattoos and sample some complimentary Hornitos Paloma cocktails.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These young ladies proudly show off their newly-acquired Hornitos tattoos at the pop-up venue.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

db spotted this rosé spritzer on sale for just £3 at Borough Market in London and was sorely tempted to get stuck in, but alas there was work to be done in the afternoon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Taking time out at the Laithwaites tasting at Vinopolis in London.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jason and Karen Tinklin of The Star Tavern in London’s Belgravia celebrate winning the Fuller, Smith & Turner Master Cellarman of the Year 2010 trophy, awarded for maintaining exceptional cellar standards.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

db‘s Marinel FitzSimons looks pretty pleased to have got her hands on a bottle of Marquis vodka – a new luxury white spirit that is making waves on the London club scene, according to entrepreneur and backer Stuart Randall.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mount Gay global brand ambassador Chesterfield Brown flew in to London this week to introduce members of the trade to Mount Gay 1703 – one of the oldest rums in the world and the latest expression from the famous Barbados-based distillery.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beer lovers tuck in to a selection of British brews at the British Guild of Beer Writers reception at Brew Wharf to mark the start of the Great British Beer Festival. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

French wine vinegars from Cabernet Franc to Chardonnay take a tip from the New World by listing their products by varietal at Borough Market, London.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Patrick Schmitt (far left), editor of the drinks business, and senior staff writer Gabriel Savage (2nd left), take a breather after a gruelling real tennis match at Queens Club, London, alongside Christopher Herbert and Michael Stobbs from fine wine merchant HS Liquid.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A jeroboam of Château Fontvert rosé at Bar Boulud in Knightsbridge – Michelin-starred chef Daniel Boulud’s first venue in London.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And here is the agonising existential question that a very rich man in Cheyne Walk, London, asks himself every morning before he drives to the City. 

db, 06.08.2010