Week in pictures

David Hesketh MW, managing director of Laurent Perrier UK, presents Michel Roux Jr with the Laurent Perrier Lifetime Achievement Award.

Colourful macaroons and duck burgers were the order of the day at the annual South West France wine tasting at Comptoir Gascon.

db encountered this dramatic staircase recalling the tragic final scene in Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo & Juliet at the launch of Italian chef Giorgio Locatelli’s “Pret a Diner” dinner.

The vintage Port served at London’s The Square restaurant on Thursday evening where Paul Symington hosted members of the drinks trade to celebrate his award as Decanter Man of the Year.

Jazz singer Gregory Porter enjoys some Weston’s Cider during a break at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival.

Lucas Bols’ UK brand ambassador John Clay gets going on making Bols Yoghurt Liqueur dry ice ice cream aboard a replica vintage boat at the UK launch of the liqueur in Amsterdam

Other châteaux representatives can but watch as Pierre Lurton dishes out 2008 Yquem to thirsty members of the trade at Bibendum’s en primeur tasting at Lord’s recently – db got the first glass. Out of shot, everyone else.

db was greeted by this rainbow of colour at the House of Bols in Amsterdam. Each of the bottles represents a different flavour of liqueur made by the Dutch brand, including butterscotch, watermelon and green tea, expressed into the air in a single puff.

Buddhist monks carried out a traditional blessing to mark the re-opening of Thai restaurant The Blue Elephant in its new location of Imperial Wharf, London

Reflecting the brand’s 437-year history, a beautiful vintage Bols bottle brightens a cabinet at the House of Bols museum in Amsterdam.

Sir Peter Michael, owner of The Vineyard at Stockcross and Steven Spurrier attend the unveiling of a fresco depicting the famous judgement of Paris that Spurrier organised in the 1970s. The fresco was commissioned by Michael for his Berkshire hotel and was painted by London artist, Gary Myatt.

Australian actress Naomi Watts (right) launched the Cool Harvest range from Jacob’s Creek along with the brand’s glamourous winemaker Rebekah Richardson (left) in London’s Holland Park this week.

Chester Osborne sported a characteristically bright shirt at a lunch hosted by the Australian First Families of Wine at Quo Vadis in London.

An interesting use for used Champagne bottles at the Locatelli Pret a Diner dinner…

db got a bird’s eye view of London from the 38th floor of the Gherkin at Eminent Wines’ tasting of Cos d’Estournel and its Tokaj estate Hetzsolo.

Lynne Murray, brand manager for Champagne Taittinger, presents author Ahren Appelfeld and his translator Jeffrey Green with their prize for winning The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, for Appelfeld’s book Blooms of Darkness.