Category: Miscellaneous

Introducing the ‘Ansafone’

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.

Predictions for the year ahead

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 […]

Battle of the bottles: do spirits have a place at the Christmas table? Nay

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 […]

A Christmas list

With advent underway, Damian Carrington from our agency arm – Fields, Morris & Verdin – collates the wines and spirits featuring on his colleagues’ Christmas menus, offering insight into what those in the trade will be drinking on 25th December. Christmas is a time of lists, as everyone knows, whether it is your own to […]