Every year I promise to do something special for my Mum for Mother’s Day but it always comes around so quickly that I end up in a last minute dash round the shops where all originality goes out the window and she ends up with chocolates and flowers. My advice is to plan ahead so […]

At Berrys we sell many of the world’s best spirits but my focus at work as PR Manager, and at home as a consumer, is predominantly on wine. My preamble is the result of a new discovery – a love for Cognac! (apologies to those of you who already do…) Definitely Delamain – A Fine […]

In what was more Fringe than West End musical, Schloss Gobelsburg’s Michael ‘the Monk’ Moosbrugger and Chevalerie’s Stéphanie Caslot, in the role of ‘Jeanne d’Arc’, brought their respective acts to town last week, hosting separate tutored tastings in Berrys’ Pickering Cellars in front of 30 private customers. Michael took to the ‘stage’ first, his chant in […]

Much of my time at the moment is being spent encouraging wine lovers to participate in Wine Relief, our biennial chance to make a concrete contribution to Comic Relief’s carefully-monitored, life-changing projects in Africa and the UK. My husband Nick Lander and I had the idea of encouraging wine lovers to help others in 1999 […]