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.

As stylish as it is quaffable, this bottle represents a collaboration between two uniquely British companies. Renowned designer Paul Smith has worked with Berry Bros. & Rudd to produce just 5,000 bottles of this slightly less ordinary Claret.

Our best-selling wine for many decades, Good Ordinary Claret 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. 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.

This beautiful yet traditional Barolo is the first offering from Berrys' own label Italian range. Fratelli Alessandria is based in the hilltop village of Verduno and with just 14 hectares of vines, the family-owned winery prides itself on sculpting its wines. I loved this Barolo with bold, beefy, smoky truffley fruit and a long savoury, beef tea finish. Perfect with a rich game stew or pie.
Jane MacQuitty - 50 Best Reds - The Times - 01-Dec-2012

This is Berrys’ first ever Own Selection Barolo; recognising the high quality now being made in Piedmont, and across Italy generally. Traditionally made by the Alessandria family, in their historic cantina based in the village of Verduno, this 100% Nebbiolo benefits from the calcareous clay soils of the Langhe hills and long ageing in large slavonian oak to give a perfumed, elegantly suave, yet full, red berried and licorice flavoured wine with gentle tannins to be enjoyed now with game or fowl, and over the next decade.
David Berry Green, BBR Wine Buyer

Read our blog on Berrys' first ever Barolo
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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.

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A fraction paler than last year and lighter than one might expect of Bordeaux Rosé but this is very much fruit forward with spicy raspberry and strawberry flooding the palate. Generous in every sense.  Good acidity and so there’s plenty of freshness with some spice at the back of the palate.  Vibrant and easy to enjoy.  As ever I’m unshakeable in my belief that a wonderful Spring and Summer awaits, this 2016 will go down very well indeed.
Martyn Rolph, Private Account Sales Manager.

Rich, deep colour with purple rim, this is a very dense, powerful wine, with rich, dark liqueur cherry notes. There is unusual weight for a Bourgogne Rouge, while the acidity maintains freshness. A Bourgogne to lay down.
Jasper Morris MW, Burgundy Director

From decomposed granitic vineyards just to the south of the appellation, La Rosine is a beguiling combination of silky elegance and structured gravitas. Twenty percent of stems have aided the latter; the former seems to come naturally in Stéphane’s wines. This wine is one of the most popular, year in year out, with Berry Bros. & Rudd staff, some of whom, allegedly, know a thing or two about wine.
Simon Field MW - Rhône Buyer

Stéphane has come a long way in the 12 years or so that I have known him: he now has two children, an enviable reputation and a construction project to the south of Ampuis which will result in a winery to rival that of Messrs Guigal. He has also been buying land, which is no mean feat in Côte Rôtie. The challenge of 2013 centred on the cool weather in the middle of the season. Very late green harvesting and then a rapid harvest before the rains in October were key. I recall visiting during the harvest and witnessing a maelstrom of carefully choreographed activity, if you will pardon the apparent contradiction. The effort has certainly paid off. The 2013 La Rosine Syrah VDP is similar in style to the 2012, with a pretty, perfumed feel in its black cherry, chocolate, floral and peppery bouquet. Medium-bodied, elegant and juicy, drink it over the coming 5-7 years.
Jeb Dunnuck - Wine Advocate Issue#216 Dec 2014

Essence is a beautiful blend of three Bordeaux vineyards oldest and most concentrated vines and is truly remarkable. Its very rare indeed a Bordeaux sneaks up on us and punches us between the eyes. Usually you see a slow and steady improvement as Chateaux improve their techniques in their Chais and vineyards. However last week, on a recommendation from one of our clients we blind tasted 4 star wines of the 2005 Vintage including Lafite and this little beauty. What was great was that all the wines were terrific, above all they have this amazing purity and richness thats not flashy but sumptuous and to a man we rated Essence as second just pipped to the post by the first growth.

The Langhe Nebbiolo DOC is the classification Barolo & Barbaresco producers use to give consumers to the fruity expression of Nebbiolo (while Barolo or Barbaresco wines reflect their terroir); an option they’ve had only since 1995. This is Davide’s second vintage of Langhe Nebbiolo, the fruit coming from his vineyards of Cerretta (Piane), Baudana (just below the cantina), and Damiano, where the vines are perhaps younger or the fruit hasn’t made the cut to qualify as Barolo. Vinified in static stainless-steel & cement, along with a brief passage in wood, this ready to drink Nebbiolo is both fleshy as well as poised. Drink 2013-2016

From the Bons Bâtons vineyard (although this doesn’t feature on the label), this has an attractive perfume, good acidity and delicious fruit.

The Grand Courtil demonstrates brilliantly how Crozes-Hermitage and a proportion of new oak (30 % in this case) can work together. We do not always buy this particular wine but when it works, as here, it works exceptionally well. Black olives and tapenade share the honours with ripe, expressive fruit.
Simon Field MW, BBR Buyer

Ferraton is owned by Chapoutier, but run as an autonomous entity. For a long time it seemed to underperform, almost as if shocked in the headlights of the energetic charisma of its benefactor. The potential of the vineyards, some of which are located on the very best sites on the Hill of Hermitage, has never been disputed. Now, with Bordelais winemaker Damien Brisset firmly in control, one begins to see, at last, the realisation of potential. I am pleased to have ‘stuck with’ them over the years, as the maturing vintages seldom fail to please and the quality of the current vintage gets better and better.

Alberto’s village blend of 100% Nerello Mascalese, from across his 15 hectares planted in the villages of Randazzo, Solichetta, Passopisciaro and Castiglione, encapsulates the natural balance and harmony that this noble grape is able to achieve here on Etna. Fermented in cement followed by affinamento (elevage) in Stockinger tini, this pale garnet-red wine, of medium-full body, sings of strawberry patch purity, of volcanic minerals, of beguiling soft summer fruit and warm Sicilian breezes.
David Berry Green

The 2015 Kreuznacher Krötenpfuhl Riesling Kabinett has a "cooler acidity" than the Kahlenberg, says Helmut Dönnhoff, so he considers it as the better vineyard to produce a fruity Riesling with more residual sugar. The wine has a clear and open nose of ripe apples along with some flinty aromas. On the palate, the wine is very clear and piquant, but also generous in its precise, elegant fruit. The finish has a certain intensity and minerality, and this will come out even clearer in two or more years.
Stephan Reinhardt, The Wine Advocate. 30th December 2016. 

It’s rare for serious Syrah such as this to leap out of the glass in such a way – this is a very lively wine, with violet and roses all over. Behind this on the nose, and then on the palate, there is a generous swathe of Northern Rhône style Syrah fruit and a hearty garrigue character. There is a genuine Rhône feel to this: the tannins have a dark granitic texture which softens into the finish. This is one of the most impressive, enjoyable New World Syrahs I’ve tasted in a long while. Impressive and very well put together.
Gary Owen, Fine Wine Account Manager

Il Poggione is one of the stars of Brunello, despite this it is always incredibly reasonably priced. Every year we sell through our allocation quickly and 2010 I think it is a case of blink and you will miss it! Il Poggione is a wine that reflects the more modern end of the styles in Brunello, it always has rich, lush fruit and in 2010 it is perfectly held in check by a cool freshness. Alongside the lovely cherry fruit, there are floral characters and toasted spice a wine with a sensual character.