Wine Accessories and Books

Explore the pleasures of wine with our award-winning Wine School. Whether you are starting to explore or building your experience, our book gives you the tools to recognise, remember and enjoy wine.

Featuring a foreword by Emma Thompson, our book focusses on the classic grape varieties that from the backbone of great wines the world over. For each grape there are innovative practical pages that best describe vital factors such as aroma, flavour and balance. Background pages to help broaden your understanding and discussions by our Masters of Wine and other experts.

Exploring & Tasting Wine is from people who teach wine every day, and who know the questions wine-lovers, both novices and experienced, want to ask. Because we do not believe that wine is a cut-and-dried subject. And we know that in the end, a wine can be summed up in one short sentence: ‘Is it good to drink?’

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Winner of the André Simon Award for the best wine book in 2010 Jasper Morris MW. has lived, breathed, bought and sold Burgundy since 1981. He has a home there, he makes his living there. He has built up over 30 years the kind of exact, on-the-ground knowledge that only someone based in the region can acquire.

His is the knowledge built up year after year from visits to and conversations in producers' cellars both grand and humble, from walking through their vineyards observing the minutiae of viticulture, from studying the weather, the development of vintages in cask and bottle, the changing patterns of family and ownership.

The book, in 656 pages, covers one thousand specific vineyards, from grands crus to obscure plots. Each is described and assessed, and the makers of its wines introduced and appraised. We learn why the top half of a certain vineyard inevitably makes wine of more character than the down-slope portion, how subtle choices in the vineyard, the cellar, even the cooperage make such differences to the quality of the final wine.

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Our newly branded Champagne stopper in its own gift box is designed to keep Champagne and sparkling wines fresh for up to 3 time as long as a conventional stopper. Tested to 12 atmospheres.

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Berry Bros. & Rudd’s own range of exclusive glasses are produced by John Jenkins & Sons Ltd, a family business with a long-established reputation as one of the finest manufacturers of high-quality, hand-made bespoke glassware. The objective is quite simple: to produce a small range of glasses which, firstly, look supremely elegant on the table and, secondly, deliver wine to the palate of the consumer in a way that maximises its enjoyment.

The world has moved away form the saucer-shaped glass to the flute, which is now widely accepted. Although very elegant in shape, the flute does not allow for the fullest aromatic expression of a Champagne, as the top of the glass is narrow. We have created a glass with a wider, fuller bowl to enable the bouquet to express itself fully, particularly important when drinking Champagnes with age or with powerful aromas. The glass has a deep v-shape at the base of the bowl, the bottom of which has been laser-etched to ensure that a brilliant stream of fine bubbles rises effortlessly up the glass.

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The key here is to have a bowl of depth and breadth, with the rim slightly tapered at the top to concentrate the bouquet. Some fashionable examples are so big that they can hold almost a whole bottle of wine, and sometimes this means that the aromas of a more delicate wine can seem lost. Red Bordeaux can be high in tannins and acidity, so the glass has been shaped to enhance the expression of fruit on the mid-palate. This glass would also work well for Northern Rhône reds, which share some of the characteristics of Red Bordeaux.

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This is a glass designed for fresh, aromatic young wines. The shape is designed to concentrate aromas but also to highlight crispness and elegance. Sauvignon Blanc from both Bordeaux and the Loire falls naturally into this category, but Riesling and Chenin Blanc would also work well in this style of glass. Albariño, Gewurztraminer and Muscat fall into this grouping too.

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The appeal of Red Burgundy, for most consumers, lies in its heady bouquet and silky texture. The wide bowl of this glass permits full aromatic expression, and the manner in which the wine is directed onto the palate enables the natural textural softness of the Pinot Noir grape to be fully enjoyed. Use it for Pinot Noir from other parts of the world too, and I feel it would also be ideal for the powerfully aromatic wines of Piedmont such as Barolo and Barbaresco.

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Burgundy, red and white, is perhaps one of the most sensual of wines, and we have sought to design a glass which reflects this characteristic. A wide bowl maximises aromatic expression and the rim is marginally fluted outwards, directing the flow of wine to the palate where its natural richness is emphasised. Whilst being ideal for Chardonnay from all parts of the world, I feel sure that this glass will also be excellent for broad-flavoured, richly-textured white wines such as Rhône, (especially Viognier), Rioja and Pinot Gris.

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For decades Berry Bros. & Rudd has used a small, perfectly-formed glass, largely for white wine in terms of in-house entertaining, but which is ideally suited to any aromatic wines served in small measures. Port and Sauternes fit the bill, as would any sweet wine, frankly. In our new range we have sought to design something in a similar vein, but slightly larger to allow proper swirling of the glass. By contrast, far too many Ports, in particular, and fortified wines in general have traditionally been served in tiny glasses which are hopeless with regard to experiencing a wine’s bouquet.

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Berry Bros. & Rudd’s own range of exclusive glasses are produced by John Jenkins & Sons Ltd, a family business with a long-established reputation as one of the finest manufacturers of high-quality, hand-made bespoke glassware. The objective is quite simple: to produce a small range of glasses which, firstly, look supremely elegant on the table and, secondly, deliver wine to the palate of the consumer in a way that maximises its enjoyment. With the same perfect proportions in mind of the other glassware in our range, we have sought to produce a perfectly-balanced, fine Whisky & Water glass of great clarity. Solidly-based, this is perfect for spirits, which might require the addition of mixers and ice-cubes, or simply as a water glass.

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