Cellar Plan Welcome Tasting, Tuesday 18th March 2025
Cellar Plan Events
We frequently host tastings and experiences for our Cellar Plan members. These exclusive events are only available to Cellar Plan members and their guest.
These events offer Cellar Plan members the opportunity to meet our family of wine producers, catch up with their Account Manager and mingle with fellow members over a glass or two of fine wine. We are pleased to offer these events at a special rate, exclusively for Cellar Plan members.
When is a wine ready to drink?
We provide drinking windows for all our wines. Alongside the drinking windows there is a bottle icon and a maturity stage. Bear in mind that the best time to drink a wine does also depend on your taste.
Not ready
These wines are very young. Whilst they're likely to have lots of intense flavours, their acidity or tannins may make them feel austere. Although it isn't "wrong" to drink these wines now, you are likely to miss out on a lot of complexity by not waiting for them to mature.
Ready - youthful
These wines are likely to have plenty of fruit flavours still and, for red wines, the tannins may well be quite noticeable. For those who prefer younger, fruitier wines, or if serving alongside a robust meal, these will be very enjoyable. If you choose to hold onto these wines, the fruit flavours will evolve into more savoury complexity.
Ready - at best
These wines are likely to have a beautiful balance of fruit, spice and savoury flavours. The acidity and tannins will have softened somewhat, and the wines will show plenty of complexity. For many, this is seen as the ideal time to drink and enjoy these wines. If you choose to hold onto these wines, they will become more savoury but not necessarily more complex.
Ready - mature
These wines are likely to have plenty of complexity, but the fruit flavours will have been almost completely replaced by savoury and spice notes. These wines may have a beautiful texture at this stage of maturity. There is lots to enjoy when drinking wines at this stage. Most of these wines will hold in this window for a few years, though at the very end of this drinking window, wines start to lose complexity and decline.
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Description
If you're yet to experience a wine tasting at our historic home, then this is the perfect opportunity. Designed, and exclusively for, our new Cellar Plan members, our Welcome Tasting - held deep under St James's Street in the Napoleon Cellar - will immerse you in the world of Berry Bros. & Rudd.
It will be an informal evening where you will have the chance to walk around and sample more than 20 different wines and spirits - including a handful of rare and remarkable bottles from the Family Reserves. You'll also have the opportunity to catch-up with your Account Manager to discuss all things fine wine and spirits.
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