The guests at the celebratory wine gig in the Westbury Hotel fall into two main categories - hotel managers and the friends of Lisa Haran. We're here to see her art work which will grace all the bottles of the new house wine in the Jurys Doyle Hotel Group. This young graphic designer has won the group's first Art on a Bottle prize.
First, some of Lisa's many friends: Fiona Stafford, Rick Klein Velthuis and boyfriend Edward Kelly are here to support the blushing prize-winner who gets £1,600 from the hotel group. Checking out the nosh prepared by executive chef Paddy Brady are more friends - Ciara Ward, Pauline Whelan and Lisa's two sisters, Lynda and Cathy. Tucking into the garlic prawns, the chicken satay and the samosas are more pals Colm Maher, Nicola Joynt, Sam Lyons, Keith O'Toole and Ivan Darcy.
The wine goes down a treat. David Peppercorn, an expert on Bordeaux wine, says: "It's the hedonistic side to wine which really grabs you, but it's nice to have the intellectual excuse to underpin it." That's it in a nutshell.
And the managers? From the top: Peter Malone, head of the group's 30 hotels; Aileen Phelan, representing Limerick; and Joe Quinn representing Cork.