Tag: wine

Top flight – part one

  A member of our Fine Wine team, Stuart Rae has an ardour for wines the world over. While he maintains a love of the classics, today he professes a particular penchant for the wines of the New World. Here he expands on the extraordinary pleasure – and precious knowledge – derived from a rare […]

Reservations about the business lunch

  As Commercial Director of our wholesale arm, Fields, Morris & Verdin, Damian Carrington knows only too well the importance of the working lunch – so why is it increasingly disappearing from the menu? I’m not sure if I have a ‘readership’ as such but I do picture in my mind’s eye what you might […]

The power of restraint

Sophie Thorpe, a member of our Marketing team, caught up with Dr Alexander Waibel from Constantia Glen, one of the properties raising South Africa’s wine-making profile. Alexander Waibel appears restless in his enthusiasm as he speaks to a room full of Berry Bros. & Rudd staffers about Constantia Glen, and the exceedingly elegant wines they […]

Ratings winners

Damian Carrington, Commercial Director of our wholesale arm, Fields, Morris & Verdin – and a well-seasoned veteran of dining out – on what it takes to elevate a respectable restaurant experience to a truly remarkable one How do you judge a restaurant? What really makes the difference between the truly great and the merely good? […]