Month: March, 2014

Designing the times: behind the Berry Bros. & Rudd brand

From the cask at the top of this blog and the fonts it uses, to the new Wine Club Members’ Packs, Harry Pearce, designer and partner at international agency Pentagram, is the man behind Berry Bros. & Rudd’s brand evolution. Here he talks to us about how he approached the brief, and his philosophy of design. Working […]

“A ‘turn left’ kind of a service”

Our recently relaunched wine club has been hitting the headlines, and today’s review comes courtesy of the Telegraph Luxury. We think the piece is well worth a read (in fact, we couldn’t have put it better ourselves)… “The phrase ‘wine club’ has somehow become synonymous with razzamatazzy £50 off leaflets dropping out of your Amazon […]

St-Joseph’s movers and shakers (part 1)

Exciting, great-value wines are coming out of St Joseph, thanks to the vision and the talent of a number of producers. Here, Eva Polaki highlights five vintners who are making the world sit up and take notice of the appellation’s wines. A big success story in St-Joseph is written by Jérôme Coursodon the fifth generation […]

Tim Atkin MW – a man on a (wine-based) mission…

A regular in your weekend newspapers, Tim Atkin MW is one of Britain’s leading wine writers. Here, he talks to us about up-and-coming wine regions, how to find your perfect bottle and why the future of wine might just be on Twitter (#noway!) How do you see your role as a wine critic? I would […]