Week in pictures

Festivals, weddings, sword-swallowing and multi-coloured camels. Just another week in the drinks industry…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pol Roger marketing manager Helen Chesshire shows off unusual under-garments on her wedding day – a blue petticoat and a leg adorned with a David Cameron rosette. She was also carrying a mug featuring Cameron and deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, in order to celebrate her own "coalition". Picture: Alex Black

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

db‘s Jane Parkinson made the most of the hospitality on offer at the wedding reception. Picture: Alex Black

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Joe Wadsack’s sword-swallowing antics at the reception fooled nobody.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A circus group entertained guests in and around the wedding marquee.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jo Wehring, UK marketing manager at Wines of South Africa, wonders where her date is as the reception gets in to full flow.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

db‘s Gabriel Savage checks out candidates for her winter fur.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Out for a stroll the following morning, blushing bride Helen was beginning to think she might have made a huge mistake.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Meanwhile, at the Big Chill Festival, the red mist descended on db‘s Alan Lodge when someone tried to pinch his Gaymers cider.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sailor Jerry’s Ink City installation at the Big Chill provided festival-goers with spiced rum-based refreshment, music and tattoos.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Sailor Jerry stage featured a host of acts over the course of the four-day festival, as well as providing a place for thirsty revellers to relax.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sailor Jerry bar staff expertly crafted a selection of cocktails to cool down the sweaty hoards.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Sailor Jerry Ink City tattoo parlour welcomed a steady stream of visitors throughout the festival.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inside the parlour, skilled professionals worked their magic.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Others, meanwhile, opted for the easier option of transferring a temporary tattoo. This young lady proudly shows off her Sailor Jerry hula girl motif.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At the top of the hill, the Monkey Shoulder Treehouse proved one of the most popular attractions at the Big Chill, drawing crowds in with a mix of cocktails, tunes and custom t-shirt making.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lucie Kaye, of Eulogy PR, shows off the Monkey Shoulder money used to buy cocktails in the Treehouse.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Big Chillers relax outside the Monkey Shoulder Treehouse.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Big Chill festival attracted over 35,000 people to the Eastnor Castle Deer Park in Herefordshire last weekend.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kelis put on a storming show in the Revellers Arena on the Saturday evening.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The sun shone when it felt like it, but the weather didn’t dampen the mood of the crowd.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

He’s behind you: db‘s Alan Lodge was more than a little disturbed to discover that pretty much the whole crowd was looking for him. These guys had even had t-shirts made with the slogan "Don’t follow me, follow Alan. www.whereisalan.co.uk". Weird isn’t the word.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Javier Hidalgo shows assembled hacks how to pour Sherry into a copita in Sanlúcar de Barrameda.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

db‘s Jane Parkinson tries to mimick Hidalgo’s technique, with limited success.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Javier Hidalgo braves the 40 degree heat in one of his oldest vineyards.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kat Sheppard of Mentzendorff (l) wades through the cooling mist that is sprayed through the ceiling of a restaurant in the blazing Sanlúcar heat.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Journalists Chris Losh and Joe Wadsack keep db‘s Jane Parkinson company on a horse-and-cart ride through Sanlúcar.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Zara Phillips and Mark Tyndall, chief executive of Artemis Investment Management, get their hands on a bottle of Pol Roger, which sponsored The Artemis Challenge at this year’s Cowes Week.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Wave Muscat team celebrates winning the Extreme Sailing Series at Cowes Week with a jeroboam of Pol Roger, presented by Pol Roger national sales manager Paul Graham.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The boats racing around the Isle of Wight made for a typically spectacular Cowes Week spectacle.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rebecca Leach, online development manager for Majestic Wine Warehouses, celebrates winning the James Busby Travel Twitter Competition. Rebecca’s prize will be to join the two week James Busby Travel trip to Australia this October as their official blogger, tweeter and new media correspondent.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We always like to end Week in Pictures with a bang, so here’s a snap of the fireworks display that marked the final night of the Big Chill Festival.

db, 13.08.2010