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Week in pictures
Paris Hilton! David Walliams! Le Beast! All in one place? It can only be db‘s latest Week in Pictures.
The Glenmorangie "Dream Team": whisky creator and master blender Rachel Barrie and Dr Bill Lumsden, head of distilling and whisky creation, celebrate the lauch of Finealta, the second whisky in the Glenmorangie Private Collection range, at the Savoy in central London.
Reality TV star and US socialite Paris Hilton promotes canned sparkling wine brand Rich Prosseco at Edeka Scheck-In in Frankfurt, Germany.
Patience Gould, editor of our sister title The Spirits Business, crunches the numbers as the scores are added up in the Rum Masters judging at The Folly in London.
Rum category judges Kane Brooks (r), head of mixology and Drake & Morgan, and Kieren O’Malley (l), bar supervisor at The Folly, work their way through the impressive selection of rums entered into the Rum Masters competition.
At the other end of the room, Nick Quatroville (l) from London’s new W hotel and spirits consultant Keith Lyon (r) work their way through the first-ever Absinthe Masters competition.
Eagle-eyed comedy fans might well have noticed a nice bit of free advertising for Cockspur rum on UK show "Come Fly with Me", with the bottle clearly visible beside David Walliams.
A selection of the various vodkas entered in the Revolution Vodka World Cup, which db helped to judge at the chain’s Tower Hill branch in London.
Competition judges Alex Griem (l), regional party manager (south) at Revolution vodka bars and db‘s Alan Lodge (r) toast Stolichnaya after the brand was named the winner of the Vodka World Cup.
Journalists were kept in the dark about exactly what AB InBev was going to launch at the Paramount bar at the top of Centre Point in London right up until they arrived, with the faux-orchard proving something of a giveaway as the company launched Stella Artois Cidre.
AB InBev UK president Stuart MacFarlane (l), Dirk Seldeslachts (centre), head of Stella Artois Cidre product development, and James Watson (r), marketing director for Stella Artois in western Europe, lead assembled press and bloggers through a tasting of the new product.
We’re not quite sure how our furry friend "Le Beast" managed to get his claws on a bottle of 1955 Petrus, but you get the feeling he enjoyed himself.
The vast array of spirits on offer at new Fulham "try before you buy" wine shop Vagabond.
Vagabond hosted a press tasting last week, where journalists were let loose on their By The Glass wine sampler machines (below).
Highlights included Alion 2005 from Ribera del Duero, and Yarra Yering Underhill Shiraz, which, a £45 a pop, is one of Vagabond’s best sellers
As for the whites, the discovery of the night was Domaine Frantz Saumon Minerale+ Loire Chenin Blanc, which is flying off the shelves.
db popped into the new QV bar at Quo Vadis for a pre-Prohibition era Clover Club cocktail – named after a Philadelphia gentleman’s club – made with gin, lemon juice and raspberry syrup.
Guests including Serena Sutcliffe MW, Evening Standard wine columnist Andrew Neather and Bob Tyrer of The Sunday Times dined in the sumptuous red William Kent room in The Ritz hotel at the launch of G.H. Mumm Cuvée R. Lalou 1999.
The winners of the 2010 Wines of Chile Independent Wine Merchant Awards pose on their trip to the South American country.
And finally, what a sweet sight this was in Marble Arch, spotted en route to the inaugural Wine Rack tasting under Venus ownership. The three-metre-high resin sculpture, named simply: The Jelly Baby Family, is the quirky creation of Italian artist Mauro Perucchett.
db, 11.02.2011