Category: Miscellaneous

Fine Wine Investment

That the best wines have proved to be sound investments over the past few years is undeniable: one only need to look at the numbers to see that the fine wine market has been exceptionally buoyant since 2005 (the year, not the vintage) and customers who own top end 1996 & 2000 clarets will have […]

Champagne; too successful by half? And bottles, and magnums…

Well, as the Champenois put up their feet, preparing for some late summer sun on the Riviera after an extraordinarily early harvest, there must, for all those rugby and football woes, be a few smiles on their faces. Why? Because once more the stories of demand exceeding supply and global supply shortages are doing the […]

Burgundy Vintage 2007

The vintage is early but will it be good? We took these pictures of his grapes on June 16th this year to compare with the same pic on the same day a year earlier.   The beautiful April weather got the vine cycle off to a great start, but since then the weather has been […]

Welcome to Berrys’ Fine Wine Blog

Ever since we first designed a website for BB&R in 1994, we saw it as an extension of our business. We might have been breaking into unfamiliar territory in those days, but we always wanted to remain true to the ‘culture’ of Berry Bros, built layer by layer over the course of 300 years. I […]