This month Jonathan Ray – Berry Bros. & Rudd alumnus and drinks editor of The Spectator – steps up to the plate as our guest blogger, considering the question he is asked most and its answer. After many years in the wine trade (including several at Berry Bros. & Rudd) and two decades writing about […]

In the autumn of 1961 we published a note in our Number Three magazine informing our customers of the latest technology at Berry Bros. & Rudd, an “Ansaphone”, explaining to those fearful of newfangled contraptions how our new “robot” worked.

We are fortunate enough to have some of the savviest buyers and sharpest noses in the wine industry at Berry Bros. & Rudd. With an eye on the New Year, we asked them to predict which regions we will see on the rise and what changes the industry will see for the year ahead. With […]

Following on from yesterday’s post, Mark Pardoe MW – our Wine Buying Director – steps into the ring, appealing to the head and heart as he claims wine’s worth at Christmas. It always seems to me that complex spirits – by which I mostly mean Cognac, Armagnac and Scotch whisky – are meditative drinks, savoured […]