The story goes that The Marquis de Ségur, who also owned Ch. Lafite and Ch. Latour, adorned the label of Ch. Calon-Ségur with a heart claiming “I make my wine at Lafite and Latour, but my heart is in Calon.” The most northerly of the châteaux we visit each spring, it’s also nearly always our […]

The second Friday in July saw the 7th annual Wine Club Dinner for members and their guests. Our host, David Berry Green, was flying into Heathrow on an afternoon flight from Italy so I had everything crossed that the inauspicious date wouldn’t ruin the evening! I didn’t need to succumb to superstition though as David’s […]

Last month Berry Bros. & Rudd were delighted to host a tasting in the stunning (and recently refurbished) venue of The Waldegrave Drawing Room of St Mary’s College, Twickenham. This was the debut of a series of regional portfolio tastings planned for the South of England this year.  For many years we have been running […]

Blind tasting is very difficult. I am well-qualified to make this statement, having experienced the challenges of the Master of Wine course over the past few years. I have sat through numerous 12-wine mock exam sessions, during which I sometimes got the wines spot-on, and sometimes so drastically wrong that I didn’t know whether to […]