While our team is always ready to advise on building a wine cellar, this extract from our Wine School’s introductory book – Exploring & Tasting Wine – explains which wines are worth laying down, and why. WHICH WINES ARE SUITABLE FOR CELLARING? The majority of wines produced today are made to be drunk immediately and […]

Originally published in the spring of 1971 in our Number Three magazine, this article considers the move toward château-bottling and away from shipping in cask, much to our initial horror. Like other traditional wine merchants we have built our reputation by buying wines in cask and bottling them under our own label. Now it looks […]

As the nation’s athletes go for gold in Rio de Janeiro, our Head Chef Stewart Turner recreates a classic Brazilian fish stew that tastes as vivid as it looks. As ever, Demetri Walters MW is on hand to suggest suitable vinous partners. On the table: With the Rio Olympics underway, I thought I would try […]

No.3 St James’s Street might not be an address one associates with bootlegging gangsters – until now. In an article originally published in our Number Three magazine in the spring of 1971, we remember an infamous visitor of the 1920s and our relationship with a certain William McCoy. The violence brought to life by the […]