We’re with my alma mater Berry Bros & Rudd this week featuring some of their excellent own selection wines. I was quite bowled over by their quality, as indeed I was by the generosity of wine director Mark Pardoe’s discounts.
In fact I strongly recommend you start your festive stockpiling right here, right now. Why wait until the week before Christmas to buy Berrys’ scrumptious own selection red burgundy for £16.50 when you can buy it from this page right now for £13.95?
Not all fine fizz comes from Champagne. Nope, some of it still comes from where it all started: Limoux in southern France where, in 1531, the monks of Saint Hilaire Abbey are believed to have created the first sparkling wine. The Berry Bros. & Rudd Crémant de Limoux NV (1) is about as good an example as I remember. A blend of Chardonnay (mainly), Mauzac and Chenin Blanc, it’s made in cahoots with Berrys’ by Françoise Antech, the sixth generation of her family to make wine.
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