Month: January, 2014

Tasting Burgundy 2012: a novice’s tale…

Accompanying the Fine Wine team as they tasted Burgundy 2012, new Berry Bros. & Rudd recruit Emily Miles found that getting to know this complex wine region was going to be a lifetime’s (extremely pleasurable) work As I spat my umpteenth mouthful of wine on the cellar floor, and shuffled my feet to coax reluctant […]

Introducing Jason Lowe

Over the past several months, we have been working with award-winning photographer, Jason Lowe, to produce a new series of images for Berry Bros. & Rudd. Jason has made his name photographing some of the world’s best food: his partnership with leading chef Mark Hix is well known, and together they have produced numerous cookbooks […]

Olivier Bernstein – on being a winemaker

This “terrifically exciting” Burgundian producer is, according to Jasper Morris MW, making wines of pure class. With three Premiers Crus and seven Grands Crus to his (increasingly illustrious) name, Bernstein is a producer investors and Burgundy lovers should watch. Here, he talks a little about the philosophy that inspires his wine The process of making a […]

Benjamin Leroux on the philosophy of winemaking

As all eyes turn to Burgundy this week with the launch of 2012 en primeur, we caught up with some of the region’s rising-star producers. First up is Ben Leroux, who – although only in his thirties – began bottling wines under his own name in 2007. Leroux’s energy and intensity appear to be reflected […]