Dinners

Join the highly knowledgeable and fun-loving Felipe Carvallo for a delicious dinner. As much of the country is hunting for Black Friday bargains, escape the madness with an indulgent four-course feast in our Napolean Cellar. Fine Wine Specialist Felipe will select seven eclectic wines, for you to enjoy alongside our Head Chef’s four-course menu, guiding you through each bottle uncorked.

Dress code: smart casual

NB Wines for this event will be chosen from Berry Bros. & Rudd’s stock at the time of the event, so most will be available to order afterwards. 

Join Felipe Carvallo, our Sherry aficionado, as he welcomes Bodegas Emilio Lustau to our Cellars. Emilio Lustau was established in 1896 and was initially a small family enterprise, until the founder`s son-in-law placed it on a business footing. The firm is perhaps best known as pioneering the Almacenista system, whereby individual dry Sherries are produced from small private holdings. These are bottled under Lustau’s name but with the individual bodega's name on the label as well. Today they are amongst the most sought-after Sherries in the region. Over the course of this evening, Lustau and Felipe will showcase a selection of different Sherries with an exotic menu of cured black-footed pig, seafood and cheese, with the meal drawing to a close over a final sweetener.

Dress code: smart casual
 
NB Wines for this event will be chosen from Berry Bros. & Rudd’s stock at the time of the event, so most will be available to order afterwards.

Join us for an evening with Lenz Moser, a pioneer of Chinese wine. A name most familiar, perhaps, because of his Austrian heritage (where he still makes wine today at the eponymous winery), Lenz is a specialist winemaker who has pioneered techniques in China to produce both red wines and ice wines. Over this dinner, Lenz will share tales from his adventures making wine in Asia and Austria, while you enjoy our Head Chef’s four-course feast and taste through a host of Lenz’s wines.

Dress code: smart casual
 
NB Wines for this event will be chosen from Berry Bros. & Rudd’s stock at the time of the event, so most will be available to order afterwards.

Join us in the week before Christmas in the comfort of our historic cellars for a menu including roast goose and all the trimmings. The candlelight will give a beautiful sense of calm and a nostalgic note as you disappear into our cellars for a leisurely evening. Your host will select a handful of delicious Clarets to partner this bird, with a white Bordeaux to start the evening, Sauternes with pudding and – of course – a nip of The King’s Ginger with coffee.

Dress code: smart casual

NB Wines for this event will be chosen from Berry Bros. & Rudd’s stock at the time of the event, so most will be available to order afterwards. 

Our Tasting Menu series of dinners is intended to take the hard work out of deciding which wine to enjoy with which food. This gourmet evening will take place in the unique surrounds of the Sussex Cellar, two floors below No.3 St James’s Street. This event will focus on the seasonal delights of game, with each of our Head Chef’s dishes expertly paired with a wine by Head of Events and Education Richard Veal. Expect to find a range of different styles and surprisingly perfect pairings. The evening will conclude with fresh mint tea, specially selected coffee and chocolate, and a nip of The King’s Ginger.

Pinot Noir: for its devoted followers there is no fairer grape. Admired for its unrivalled ability to speak of a place and reflect its surroundings, this evening promises to be a sensual journey through some of the best-loved Pinot Noir styles from around the world. Beginning in the spiritual home of Pinot Noir, Burgundy, we will venture across Europe, for a taste of the traditional; before moving further afield, to the Antipodes, and finally the USA, to see how this grape has fared in the New World.

Dress code: smart casual

NB Wines for this event will be chosen from Berry Bros. & Rudd’s stock at the time of the event, so most will be available to order afterwards. 

Frenchman and Master Sommelier, Nicolas Clerc, will host this seasonal and hotly anticipated Fête de Noël. Showcasing the finest French cuisine, prepared as ever by our Head Chef Stewart Turner, this feast will echo those held across France on Christmas Eve. After a glass of something appropriately celebratory, to set the tone, you will move upstairs to the Long Room to enjoy a four-course meal alongside six wines chosen specifically by Nicolas to perfectly partner each course.

Dress code: smart casual

NB Wines for this event will be chosen from Berry Bros. & Rudd’s stock at the time of the event, so most will be available to order afterwards.

If the mainstream doesn’t quite cut it for you, then join Demetri Walters MW on a voyage of vinous discovery as he seeks to unearth the out-of-fashion, the little-understood, the antiquated and the downright obscure. Together we will seek inspiration and delight amongst regions yet to hit the limelight; we will sample the results of human endeavour and enjoy the most authentic of wine styles, including representatives of ancient genetic vine material. It promises to be an enlightening evening.

Dress code: smart casual

NB Wines for this event will be chosen from Berry Bros. & Rudd’s stock at the time of the event, so most will be available to order afterwards.

Kick-off December in style at our Classic Rhône Dinner, held in the atmospheric surroundings of No.3’s Napolean Cellar. You will have the opportunity to try eight special wines, covering the length and breadth of the Rhône valley's vineyards. From the peppered Syrahs of the North and lesser known white wines to the famous Châteauneuf-du-Pape, each wine will be accompanied by an exceptional menu prepared by our Head Chef Stewart Turner.

Wines to be tasted:
2008 Berry Bros. & Rudd Champagne by Mailly, Grand Cru
2010 Hermitage Blanc, La Chapelle, Paul Jaboulet Aîné and 2011 Hermitage Blanc, Domaine Marc Sorrel
2006 Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe and 2008 Cornas, Domaine Pierre Gaillard
2008 Côte-Rôtie, Blonde du Seigneur, Domaine Georges Vernay and 2008 Hermitage Rouge, Domaine du Colombier
2003 Châteauneuf-du-Pape Château de Rayas

Dress code: smart casual

NB Wines for this event have been chosen from Berry Bros. & Rudd’s historic stock and may not be available to order following the event.

If you enjoy drinking fine Burgundy and would like to savour some very special bottles over dinner in our atmospheric Napoleon Cellar, do join us this evening. Your host, lively fine wine specialist Demetri Walters MW, will choose a great selection of both white and red Burgundy which he will talk you through, as you enjoy them alongside a perfectly matched, Burgundy-inspired menu.

Dress code: smart casual

NB Wines for this event will be chosen from Berry Bros. & Rudd’s stock at the time of the event, so most will be available to order afterwards. 

As Christmas draws near, this evening is a chance to enjoy the delights of the season. We’ll welcome you with a luscious glass of Champagne to refresh the palate, before an evening filled with Burgundy and Port.  Over the evening you will taste classic styles of both white and red Burgundy: Puligny, Chassagne, Vougeot, Vosne, Gevrey and more. Our Head Chef will prepare a meal designed to match the wines, both those still in their youth and more mature bottles. Finally, you’ll finish with a spot of vintage Port, before braving the journey home.

Dress code: smart casual

NB Wines for this event will be chosen from Berry Bros. & Rudd’s stock at the time of the event, so most will be available to order afterwards.

Join Alice Cave for this delightful dinner tasting the wines of Ch. Haut-Bailly. Haut-Bailly is a Graves Cru Classé estate that has really hit form in the last five to seven years. It was bought by the Sanders family in 1955 and run by Jean Sanders until 1998 when Robert G. Wilmers, an American banker, purchased it. Haut-Bailly is renowned for its smoothness and silkiness but, since the mid-1990s, the wines have better depth of fruit as well as more grip, concentration and body. They are now amongst the top echelons of Pessac-Léognan wines. At this dinner, you will taste through a range of vintages of Haut-Bailly (after a refreshing apéritif), retiring after the meal to the Green Room for digestifs, fresh mint tea and coffee.

Dress code: smart casual

NB Wines for this event will be chosen from Berry Bros. & Rudd’s stock at the time of the event, so most will be available to order afterwards. 

Vosne-Romanée and Gevrey-Chambertin both compete for the title of most sought after village in Burgundy’s Côte de Nuits. Both have an enviable number of Grands Crus, the names of which need no introduction, and both are capable of producing mythic wines with an astonishing ability to age. However, their styles are quite different, with Gevrey often providing more muscular, savoury wines and Vosne hiding its power under layers of silkiness and finesse. This evening’s dinner will pit these two giants of the wine world against each other.  Across four delicious courses, carefully prepared by our Head Chef Stewart Turner, we will compare and contrast the villages. Your host, Wine and Spirits Education Specialist Barbara Drew, will guide you through the villages, exploring different vineyards, vintages and producer styles along the way, before the final clash, with two classic and mature Grand Cru wines. A must for Burgundy fans.

Wines to be tasted:
 
2014 Gevrey-Chambertin, Vieilles Vignes, Domaine Sérafin
2013 Vosne-Romanée, Grivot
 
2011 Gevrey-Chambertin, Les Cazetiers, 1er Cru, Bernstein
2011 Vosne-Romanée, Les Malconsorts, 1er Cru, Roche de Bellene
 
2001 Le Chambertin, Grand Cru, Rossignol Trapet
 
2013 Charmes-Chambertin, Grand Cru, Bernstein
2012 Grands Echezeaux, Grand Cru, Domaine Faiveley
 
Dress code: smart casual

NB Wines for this event will be chosen from Berry Bros. & Rudd’s stock at the time of the event, so most will be available to order afterwards.

 Lunch in the elegant surroundings of the Long Room is always a treat – even more so when Head Chef Stewart’s tempting menu is accompanied by the very finest Burgundy. Your charming and knowledgeable host, Lance Jefferson, will choose a range of whites and reds to showcase different styles, and will include famous names from his favourite Premier and Grand Cru vineyards. We hope you will start your weekend early and join us for a very special Friday lunchtime.

Dress code: smart casual

NB Wines for this event will be chosen from Berry Bros. & Rudd’s stock at the time of the event, so most will be available to order afterwards. 

If the mainstream doesn’t quite cut it for you, then join Demetri Walters MW on a voyage of vinous discovery as he seeks to unearth the out-of-fashion, the little-understood, the antiquated and the downright obscure. Together we will seek inspiration and delight amongst regions yet to hit the limelight; we will sample the results of human endeavour and enjoy the most authentic of wine styles, including representatives of ancient genetic vine material. It promises to be an enlightening evening.

Dress code: smart casual

NB Wines for this event will be chosen from Berry Bros. & Rudd’s stock at the time of the event, so most will be available to order afterwards. 

Join Don Shannon for a delightful evening around the Long Room table. Don will choose a selection of six white wines to go with three seafood dishes. The emphasis is on elegance and subtlety – trying to find wine that will either perform a great cushion of support to a dish, or meet it halfway to complement its nuances. Our Head Chef Stewart Turner will choose the catch of the day and the best available.  A delicate pudding with a sweet white wine will conclude the dinner.

Dress code: smart casual

NB Wines for this event will be chosen from Berry Bros. & Rudd’s stock at the time of the event, so most will be available to order afterwards. 

By popular demand, we will once again be offering a dinner to celebrate Halloween in our intimate Long Room. Over the course of the evening, you'll taste 12 wines in four flights, each of which will be accompanied by one of our Head Chef's perfectly paired dishes. Each wine will be tied by the theme "orange", with your challenge to spot how each bottle relates to the seaon's colour. Feel free to sport a dash of orange yourself, although this is - of course - not obligatory.

Dress code: smart casual

NB Wines for this event will be chosen from Berry Bros. & Rudd’s stock at the time of the event, so most will be available to order afterwards.
 
 

Vosne-Romanée and Gevrey-Chambertin both compete for the title of most sought after village in Burgundy’s Côte de Nuits. Both have an enviable number of Grands Crus, the names of which need no introduction, and both are capable of producing mythic wines with an astonishing ability to age. However, their styles are quite different, with Gevrey often providing more muscular, savoury wines and Vosne hiding its power under layers of silkiness and finesse. This evening’s dinner will pit these two giants of the wine world against each other.  Across four delicious courses, carefully prepared by our Head Chef Stewart Turner, we will compare and contrast the villages. Your host, Wine and Spirits Education Specialist Barbara Drew, will guide you through the villages, exploring different vineyards, vintages and producer styles along the way, before the final clash, with two classic and mature Grand Cru wines. A must for Burgundy fans.

Dress code: smart casual

NB Wines for this event will be chosen from Berry Bros. & Rudd’s stock at the time of the event, so most will be available to order afterwards. 

 Join us in the week before Christmas in the comfort of our historic cellars for a menu including roast goose and all the trimmings. The candlelight will give a beautiful sense of calm and a nostalgic note as you disappear into our cellars for a leisurely evening. Your host will select a handful of delicious Clarets to partner this bird, with a white Bordeaux to start the evening, Sauternes with pudding and – of course – a nip of The King’s Ginger with coffee.

Dress code: smart casual

NB Wines for this event will be chosen from Berry Bros. & Rudd’s stock at the time of the event, so most will be available to order afterwards. 

Held in the Long Room, this indulgent dinner is inspired by a traditional Christmas feast – consider it a slightly alternative dress rehearsal. Our Head Chef Stewart Turner, who delights in making creative and innovative dishes that pair beautifully with wine, has devised a wonderful menu; alongside each course you will try a different wine, exploring a variety of pairings for festive food. If you’re puzzled by Pinot or baffled by Barolo, this is the dinner that will show you exactly which wines to pick for Christmas Day. 

Dress code: smart casual

NB Wines for this event will be chosen from Berry Bros. & Rudd’s stock at the time of the event, so most will be available to order afterwards.

Join the UK’s biggest-selling crime writer, Ian Rankin, for an evening of fine wine, epicurean gastronomy and tales of Edinburgh’s underbelly. Rankin, whose fictional police detective, John Rebus, has garnered millions of followers across the globe, developed his love of Bordeaux wines while living in southwestern France, working as a cellar hand at Château Brandeau, near Castillon. Over the meal, Will Lyons will guide you through the wines while also interviewing the famous writer about his work and interest in wine. You will also receive a copy of the latest Inspector Rebus novel to take home with you.

Dress code: smart casual

NB Wines for this event will be chosen from Berry Bros. & Rudd’s stock at the time of the event, so most will be available to order afterwards. 

Thomas Jefferson was America's first wine connoisseur. As the West End prepares for the arrival of Hamilton this autumn, here at Berry Bros. & Rudd we will remember Revolutionary America from the perspective we know best: fine wine. We will take a closer look at Thomas Jefferson's cellar, rumoured to have run up debts from Monticello to Paris. The author of the Declaration of Independence and America’s third president is known to have had a soft spot for classic European showstoppers. Long before Cabernet was king in California, colonial America was influenced by Europe's famous regions; and Jefferson enjoyed them all, from Bordeaux to Tuscany, Madeira to Tokaj.

Hosted by Rebecca Lamont, we will explore Jefferson's cellar with the studied expertise of Elizabeth Linder, London resident and scholar of US history, who first encountered Thomas Jefferson's penchant for wine while cataloguing the meticulously-written Jefferson Papers at Princeton University's Rare Books Division. Sampling some of the styles Jefferson enjoyed alongside a menu designed by our Head Chef, this is guaranteed to be a unique and very special evening.

Dress code: smart casual

NB Wines for this event will be chosen from Berry Bros. & Rudd’s stock at the time of the event, so most will be available to order afterwards. 

Join Chris Pollington for a five-course dinner accompanied by the fine wines of Piedmont. This region is a gastronomic and vinous paradise as well as, of course, incredibly beautiful, with its plethora of hilltop villages and beautiful sub-regions, home to famous appellations such as Barolo and Barbaresco. This is truffle season too, so our Head Chef Stewart Turner will be sure to source the best ingredients that he can. Many of you will know that Chris has an immense knowledge of all things Italian. Come and join him for a deliciously fun Piedmontese evening.

Dress code: smart casual

NB Wines for this event will be chosen from Berry Bros. & Rudd’s stock at the time of the event, so most will be available to order afterwards. 

Join Nick Morton in the Long Room to explore his two great passions, history and Champagne. The evening will start with a welcome in the Green Room and your first Champagne. A four-course dinner will follow, over which you will enjoy six different styles of Champagne. As the dinner unfolds, Nick will recount the history of this fascinating wine region, tracing how it became the world-renowned luxury brand we know today. The evening will conclude with fresh mint tea, coffee and chocolates in the Green Room, along with a digestif of your choice.

Dress code: smart casual

NB Wines for this event will be chosen from Berry Bros. & Rudd’s stock at the time of the event, so most will be available to order afterwards.