Month: August, 2015

The future of Prestige Cuvées

Ahead of Champagne Taittinger’s release of their 2006 Comtes de Champagne, Gareth Birchley – Fine Wine Buyer for Asia – looks into the future of the Champagne market’s most prized bottles, the Prestige Cuvées. The release of the very first Prestige Cuvées from the much-lauded 2002 vintage proved a perfect storm for the boom of […]

Sustenance at the summit

Following a recent trip to the moors of the north, our Cellar Plan Manager Tom Cave divulges the secrets of England’s highest cellar, a spot of Lancastrian peat that provides surprising sustenance for weary sportsmen. After two hours yomping across heather and bog, the distant trig point stubbornly remained just that – distant. Eventually, and […]

Highlights from our Summer Sale

The Sale season can seem overwhelming: with such an array of wines discounted to deliciously appealing prices, how does one pick and choose? In an attempt to guide you through the Berry Bros. & Rudd Summer Sale, our team of Wine Advisors has selected their personal favourites. Guy Davies 2011 Ch. Ferran Blanc, Pessac-Léognan, Bordeaux – £18.00 […]

Champagne of the stars

Dom Pérignon may have claimed to be drinking the stars, but the illustrious Champagne Thiénot has been drunk by the stars twice, as the official Champagne of the Oscars Pre-Show and Governors Ball. Here Ferorsa Choi – Private Account Manager in our Hong Kong office – recounts a tasting of the House’s eminent wines. Champagne […]