New BBX

In collaboration with Luke Edward Hall, a rising star of British design, we present our second limited-edition label for Good Ordinary Claret. Just 4,000 bottles featuring Hall’s Bacchanalian-inspired artwork have been produced.

Our best-selling wine for many decades, GOC, as it is known, brilliantly highlights the sheer drinkability of modern red Bordeaux. Bright, medium ruby in colour, with a siren-like nose of black cherries, bramble fruit and wood smoke, it is instantly appealing. The palate follows through with delicious, juicy, black fruit and a long, velvety finish. Equally at home with a weekday supper or a grand Sunday roast, it is the perfect wine for all occasions.

Bottled for us by one of our favourite Sauternes estates, Ch. Doisy-Védrines, this is a sumptuous example of this ageless style of wine. Blessed with ancient vines, the fruit here is often subject to high levels of Botrytis (or noble rot), which shrinks the grapes and concentrates sugar levels in the remaining juice. The result is a wine of honeyed sweetness, with rapier-like acidity and a wonderful lightness of touch. Serve chilled, with a salty Roquefort and carefully chosen friends. With a focus on provenance, these superlative bottles are classified by commune and highlight the fruitful collaborations between the producers and buyers, creating wines with superb finesse.. Whether from Pomerol or Meusault, Barolo or Gevrey-Chambertin, the design of each label references its region of origin, prominently displaying both the name of the estate and the signature of the buyer.

Berrys' famous Good Ordinary Claret was first launched in 1974 and has been our best-selling wine ever since. First mooted in 1986, Berrys' Extra Ordinary Claret was launched a mere 19 years later - once the concept had perfectly matured. Produced especially for us by Bordeaux-legend Jean-Michel Cazes, this elegantly balanced, modern Claret is packed with juicy black berry fruits and an intense cassis finish.
.....................................................................................

Wines for our Berrys' own selection are hand-picked by our expert buyers and are standard-bearers of style and quality from classical wine regions, offering exceptional value for money.

• All Berrys' own selection wines
• Berrys' own selection Bordeaux wines

This is the very opposite of the shy and retiring style of rosé made in Provence, and depending on one’s point of view, all the better for it.  Deeply coloured, correspondingly full-bodied and joyously fruity.  Lifted and fragrant on the nose, the palate manages the neat trick of being creamy and zesty at the same time, rather in the style of a raspberry panna cotta.  Drink right now, ice cold, with a huge pile of langoustines and a quivering bowl of aioli.

Rémi Pouizin formerly made wine at his father’s property, Domaine la Fourmente, just outside Visan. Now he has branched out on his own with Domaine Dieu-le-Fit and bought a magnificent 19th century château in the heart of the village. He has also secured biodynamic accreditation for his vineyards, though these essentially remain the same. The essence of the excellent Domaine la Fourmente still remains, albeit a little improved, plus a new, divinely inspired name.

From the excellent 2015 vintage, Native is a blend of concrete-aged Grenache and wood-aged Syrah and Mourvèdre. The Grenache’s silky tannins enrobe a pleasing dark-fruit core, with myrtle and red cherry both in evidence on the palate. Drink now to 2023.

I am somewhat biased as I was fortunate to taste this at Maison Francois Perrin whilst looking out over the Provençale landscape. Pale salmon in colour, the nose is wonderfully fresh with aromas of wild strawberry and hints of fennel and orange peel. Crisp and dry across the palate with gentle flavours of red currants, strawberry, and a touch of savouriness comes through at the back with flicks of spice. Detailed and precise with a moreish finish; the Perrin's have excelled again here with a delicious rose wine truly representative of the regions finest. Drink and enjoy without thinking, ideally this summer once available.
Chris Lamb - Private Account Manager

I described the 2015 release as ‘dangerously drinkable and probably the perfect Provence rose’ and this continues a theme! Very pale, with wild strawberry and fennel on the nose. Excellent freshness on the palate, with a seam of red fruit and saline tang on the finish. As effortlessly enjoyable as always and sure to become a staple of picnics, BBQs and sunny summer evenings.
Fergus Stewart - Private Account Manager

A firm favourite amongst BBR staff (perhaps as a result of the large number of magnums released in each vintage), the Rosé de Giscours has a refreshing and inviting nose of blueberries, wild strawberries, fennel bulb and thyme. The palate is very linear with good acidity and a rounded mouth-feel. Enjoy this with warm summer salads, meaty fish or as an aperitif.
Nicholas Stewart, Buying Department

For the past five years, the arrival of this utterly brilliant quaffing extraordinaire from one of Bordeaux’s great estates has heralded the beginning of the Spring/Summer. Fresh and zippy with hints of strawberry sherbet, dry, well balanced and slightly darker in colour than previous vintages. Ideal for drinking at barbeques with friends or, as is often the case at our house, the perfect liquid appetiser as we relax and cook the Sunday roast. Delicious. Too easy to drink!
Ben Upjohn, Fine Wine Sales Manager

From vines below Meursault and Puligny, this is bottled before the next harvest. Pale in colour, the wine has fine, crisp, energetic fruit. Medium-bodied, with white fruit and greengage, this is a tribute to Benjamin’s exceptional skills. 
Jasper Morris MW, Burgundy Director

In my view a perfect ‘house quaffer’ for those midweek pizza & pasta suppers. A blend of Valpolicella varieties along with 30% of the fruit air dried and added to rest of the juice to add more body and weight.

The “Palazzo della Torre” is the historic combination of Corvina and Rondinella with the addition of a small quantity of Sangiovese.  A small percentage of the harvested grapes are left to dry out until December, then added to the previously vinified fresh grapes to produce one of the most quaffable Italian wines I have had in a long time.  The nose is ripe and juicy, full of cherry fruit with a hint of dried berry / espresso bean edge.  The palate is fluid, medium bodied with a juicy, mouthwatering finish.  Delicious. 2016 – 2018.
Stuart Rae, Private Account Manager

As always with Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc, the aromatics are explosive. Grapefruit, greengage, passion fruit, asparagus, elderflower, mineral hints…the list could go and on and on.  It is the addition weight that sets this wine apart however, a richness which allows it to really excel with food in a way which lesser Sauvignons cannot. Racy and vibrant, there is bags of cleansing acidity here and a focus which is reminiscent of fine Riesling. 
Ben Upjohn - Fine Wine Sales Manager Brilliantly aromatic, and distinctively Marlborough! ‘Intense’ is over-used in wine tasting notes, but it’s needed when describing this Sauvignon. Heaps of gooseberries, pepper, and herbaceous notes on the nose, gooseberry, passion fruit and elderflower all mingle beautifully on the palate. This is superbly refreshing and wonderfully balanced, this will hit all the right spots on one of those UK summer days. 
Ben Grosvenor, Private Account Manager

New to the Berrys’ offer of Chianti Classico this year, Bibbiano’s ‘Montornello’ was first made in 1982 by Tommaso’s father Alfredo, along with Giulio Gambelli. Then it was made using 14.51% of white grapes Trebbiano (di Toscana) and Malvasia, arrived at only 12.5% and lasted a lifetime! The wine comes from the fruit of east-facing vines; as opposed to Capannino’s west-facing vineyard.

So whereas Capannino is rich and velvety, Montornello is lighter and fine-boned. It’s paler in colour, more ethereal, porcelain, with fresh, breezy red berried fruit along with notes of hay and dried grass. To taste it’s beautifully smooth with delightfully pert red fruit, almost cranberry like, with cleansing acidity. Very delicate, understated, salty cool…reminding me of a Côtes de Beaune (Volnay?).
David Berry Green

Rich dark purple, previewing the opulent bouquet which includes some slightly chocolatey notes along with some mulberry fruit, before a crunchy mineral finish. Good weight and length.

This could be the perfect Provencal rosé – the palest pink with aromas of wild strawberries, raspberries and a touch of fennel. Red fruit and citrus on the palate, this is perfectly poised between easy drinking for an aperitif but some structure that would cope admirably with a light lunch. This is dangerously drinkable!
Fergus Stewart, Private Account Manager

The latest Miraval Rosé vintage, 2015 surpasses all others in quality. This rosé wine is genuinely good and worth every penny.  Miraval Rosé is the only rosé to have appeared in the Wine Spectator’s Top 100 list of the Best Wines (2013). Jeb Dunnuck of the Wine Advocate called it "a killer rosé.”

Miraval the property and Miraval the wine capture the essence of Provençale charm, the epitome, perhaps, of Matisse’s ‘Luxe, calme et volupté’. The terraced vineyards date from Roman times, as indeed do the surrounding forests, the environment of scrubland (aka garrigue) thyme and olives, providing a most welcome refuge, no doubt, for Hollywood A- listers seeking to brush up their winemaking knowledge. It seems, indeed, that Brad and Angelina are more hands-on than one may have expected, their hands expertly guided around the winery by the Perrin family of Château de Beaucastel fame.
 

Yves’ passion and energy is well-known and it was warming to see his reaction to our own enthusiasm for this cuvée, which was one we had not planned to buy. Like the best Cornas, it has a ‘lift’ to it with plenty of fresh, generous fruit. Easy on the ‘abv’ too, a really fine example of a Cornas that will develop very well mid-term.
Tom Cave - Cellar Plan Manager