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Week in pictures
Cheryl Cole, Alex Salmond and Robert Beynat – just three of the folk featured in our latest pictorial round-up of seven days in the drinks industry.
Popstar Cheryl Cole (l) celebrates her Sun newspaper Bizzare Lady of the Year award with the paper’s showbusiness editor Gordon Smart and a bottle of Greenall’s Gin, which sponsored the awards.
db‘s Lucy Shaw interviews Olivier Leriche, winemaker at Domaine de L’Arlot at the Corney & Barrow Burgundy ’09 tasting at the Tower of London.
Thirsty? Quite why anyone would need a glass this size (seen next to a regular wine glass) was beyond db as we made our way around the Corney & Barrow tasting.
The trade enjoyed a relatively peaceful tasting before over 400 members of the public descended on the room in the evening.
Li Keqiang, the vice-premier of China and Alex Salmond MSP, the first minister of Scotland, attended a Scotch whisky tasting at Edinburgh castle hosted by The Scotch Whisky Association.
Hundreds of wine trade folk hit Lord’s cricket ground in London on Tuesday, 11 January, for the New Zealand Wine Annual Trade Tasting.
Vinexpo’s chief executive Robert Beynat and chairman Xavier de Eizaguirre prepare to addressed the drinks trade media at a press conference in The Westbury Hotel in London.
Laithwaites senior buyer Thomas Woolrych and journalist Joanna Simon taste wines in the running for inclusion in the merchant’s "Experts’ Choice" case offer; an initiative which generated £600,000 of business for the retailer when it was launched last year.
The weekend get-away just got off to a better start as Searcys opens its latest Champage bar at Paddington station in London.
db’s editorial assistant, Rupert Millar, eyes up yet another table of ’09 Burgundy at Bordeaux Index’s tasting on Wednesday.
The following day he was in Pimlico for lunch with winemaker Jean-Paul Brun and some of his latest creations from Beaujolais.
And finally, we weren’t sure why the HMS Belfast was lit up in all these colours, but it made for a very nice picture as we made our way back to the office after the Corney & Barrow tasting in London.
db, 14.01.2011