Week in pictures: 25 – 31 May 2024

This week saw Eloise Feilden at the DB Asia Awards at Vinexpo Asia, Louis Thomas at Ekstedt at the Yard, Douglas Blyde at the Saatchi Gallery with Pasqua and Kylie Minogue celebrating the fourth anniversary of her wine brand.

DB Asian Awards

Asia editor Eloise Feilden and the db Asia team welcomed friends and colleagues from across the industry to celebrate the very best from drinks companies operating in the Asia Pacific region at a ceremony for The Drinks Business Asian Awards 2024.

Click here to find out this year’s worthy winners.

Ekstedt at the Yard

Louis Thomas attended a dinner at Ekstedt at the Yard, pairing five of the 50 Great Greek Wines alongside Nordic-inspired, wood-fired cooking.

From Gavalas Winery’s 2022 Santorini, paired with Ekstedt’s signature Flambadou Oyster, to a Pinot Noir-esuqe Chidiriotiko from Methymnaeos alongside hay-smoked veal tartar with a wild garlic ice cream, and a meadowsweet mousee with a treacley 2012 Monemvasia-Malvasia, the pairings showcased how Greek wine should not be confined to just being served alongside Greek food.

Pasqua

In the lead-up to its centenary next year, Veronese winery, Pasqua, held a private view of the new group show, “Metamorphosis: Innovation in Eco-photography & Film” at Saatchi Gallery. The exhibition highlights different approaches towards a shared goal of developing more sustainable practices – and heralds Pasqua’s most significant partnership with a major arts institution outside of its home market, Italy.

Since 2018, Pasqua, whose motto is “house of the unconventional”, has invested over €5m on artist collaborations, arts programming and patronage – most of which, until now, was anchored in Italy. In attendance was Ricardo Pasqua, CEO of Pasqua Wines (pictured), as well as all four of Metamorphosis’ UK-based artists: Almudena Romero, a British-Spanish visual artist who explores ways of seeing through photography, Edd Carr, who utilises the moving image to depict the human response to the ecological crisis, Hannah Fletcher, a Londoner who researches and incorporates waste in her photographic explorations, and Scott Hunter, a multidisciplinary artist who practises experimental photography and ecological research.

Paul Foster, Director of Saatchi Gallery, described the show, which “runs through June and July”, as “amazing”, adding he is “delighted to work with a company whose values of innovation and curiosity dovetail with our own to make contemporary art as accessible as possible to as many people as possible.”

Kylie Minogue

Kylie Minogue celebrated her 56th birthday and the fourth anniversary of her wine brand at famed London members club Annabel’s.

Guests enjoyed Kylie’s latest wines including her Prosecco DOC and Provence Rosé, both launched at the intimate drinks party.