The week in pictures

Leon Dalloway of Manchester’s The Whisky Jar celebrates winning the Pink Pigeon Rum competition, beating 70 other bartenders from around the UK to the title. Luke will be joined by runner-up Gareth Evans for the competition’s final in Mauritius, taking on South Africa and the host nation.

Leon’s winning cocktail called “She Always Comes Back” contains Pink Pigeon Rum, Plum Liquor, Punt e Mes red vermouth, Bitter Truth Jerry Thomas Decanter bitters and a dash of MSK All Spice and is served on a board alongside food match of Pink Pigeon Chocolate truffles.

Balblair’s distillery manager John MacDonald talks through the distillery’s range of products during at tasting, which included the 1965 Balblair, at the Whisky Shop in Piccadilly, London.

Balblair’s John MacDonald talks to db‘s Andy Young and other tasters during the distillery’s tasting at the Whisky Shop.

Raymond Blanc and Boris Johnson launch their initiative to encourage the hospitality sector to take on more apprentices.

Wall St Journal wine writer Will Lyons (centre) with Gavin Quinney of Château Bauduc and Chris Evans in Bordeaux.

The Nyetimber team join Sir Peter Ricketts, Anya Hindmarch and Christopher Kane at the Paris Fashion Week for the GREAT British Fashion Reception, where the sparkler was served. It is the first time that an English sparkling wine, rather than Champagne, has been served at a Paris Fashion Week event.

Why pay a design agency to create your labels when your children can do it? Alentejo producer Herdade da Malhadinha showed a nice family touch as it showed its wines at the annual Portuguese trade tasting in London.

Warehouse party DJ Norman Jay MBE plays to a packed out the floor at Craft Beer Rising at The Old Truman Brewery in London’s east end.

While we don’t usually feature soft drinks, we couldn’t resist including this saucy snap of singer Eliza Doolittle as Eve facing temptation in the Garden of Eden. Inspired by Michelangelo’s painting The Fall of Man, Doolittle was photographed by Rankin for a new Appletiser ad campaign.

While dining at Spanish restaurant Salvador & Amanda’s new site in Bloomsbury, we couldn’t help but admire the collection of bullfighting photos brightening the staircase wall, interspersed with photos of Surrealist painter Salvador Dalí, whom the restaurant is named after.

Stand by your ham – wine writer and educator Simon Woods hogs the Parma ham at a Douro and Port wines materclass hosted by Discover the Origin

And finally… we were treated to some Southern soul food and knock-out punch laced with Buffalo Trace Bourbon this week at the Atlanta Food Festival preview in London