Category: Miscellaneous

A piece of Pickering Place history

As a symbol of the enduring friendship and partnership between the United Kingdom and Texas, Governor Rick Perry and First Lady Anita Perry presented Her Majesty’s Consul General Andrew Millar with a new plaque marking the site of the former Texas Legation at Berry Bros. & Rudd recently (18th October). The ceremony took place in […]

Berry Bros. & Rudd Bunnahabhain

Being a multi-award-winning independent bottler of single cask whiskies makes for some splendid surprises sometimes. Whilst tasting through our inventory of barrels sleeping peacefully in Scotland, we occasionally chance upon two whiskies from the same distillery, both drinking beautifully, at very different ages.  Even more rarely, we find three differently aged samples of the same […]

Domaine Faiveley Lunch

The middle of May is a time normally dominated by the unrelenting force of a Bordeaux En Primeur campaign, however for one afternoon my Fine Wine colleague Martyn Rolph and I were to be wowed by the excellent wines of Domaine Faiveley alongside the food of Philip Howard at his two-star ‘The Square’ in Mayfair. […]

Wine Club Walkaround Tasting

On a warm evening at the end of April, 100 Wine Club members and their guests descended to the Napoleon Cellar, two floors beneath our historic London shop, for the annual Wine Club Walkaround tasting. All the wines shown feature in the upcoming May delivery so it was a great way for members to get […]