Week 12 of wine adventures in Piedmont I’m very pleased to announce that Berry Bros. and Rudd is now working with the Fratelli Alessandria family of Verduno (see the video below), so complementing Berrys’ Barolo portfolio of Luciano Sandrone, Cantina Mascarello Bartolo, Giovanni Rosso, Marcarini, Giuseppe Mascarello.

I was brought up on Rioja, holidaying on the Costa Blanca every year.  My father would spend hours in the local bodegas truffling through their seemingly inexhaustible range of old Reservas and Gran Reservas.  Bringing back wines from the ’40s to ’60s for what seemed only a few hundred pesetas and trying to educate me on […]

Alvaro Palacios (left) has been at the forefront of the Spanish wine scene for some 20 years now so we at Berry Bros. were delighted that he could join us and guests at No. 3 St James’s for our ‘Prophet of Priorat’ dinner on 3rd July.

Week eleven of wine adventures in Piedmont I had been meaning to explore this eastern Sicilian volcanic site for many years (see Mt Etna, left); ever since tasting one of its Etna Rosso wines, a blend of indigenous Nerello Mascalese and Nerello Cappuccio almost a decade ago. The wines shone brightly then – starfish among […]