Berry Brothers and Rudd

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Berry Bros. & Rudd

Type	Private
Genre	Wine merchant
Founded	1698
Founder	The Widow Bourne
Headquarters	London, England
Products	Wine, spirits
Website	www.bbr.com

Berry Brothers and Rudd is Britain's oldest wine and spirit merchant, which began operations in the 17th century. Its flagship store has been located on 3 St. James's Street, London, United Kingdom since 1698 when it was founded by the Widow Bourne in London as "The Coffee Mill". A supplier to the royal family since the reign of King George III, historic customers have included Lord Byron, William Pitt the Younger and the Aga Khan.^[1]

Berry Brothers sells wine from around the world, including Bordeaux and Burgundy wines en primeur, and providing wine storage services as well. It also sells a number of wines and spirits under its own label, "Berry's Own Selection". It created the Cutty Sark whisky, and created the vintage concept for The Glenrothes single malt Scotch whisky.

The first wine merchant to open an online wine shop in 1994, Berry Bros. & Rudd also have offices in Dublin, Ireland and Hong Kong, two wine schools and a fine dining venue in the cellars in St. James's Street.

[edit] Wine predictions

In May 2008, a team from Berry Bros. & Rudd, Jasper Morris MW, Alun Griffiths MW, Simon Field MW and David Berry Green, drew up a document of speculations into the state of the wine industry in the coming 50 years, The Future of Wine report.^[2]^[3]^[4] Among the predictions for 2058 were suggestions that China may become one of the world's biggest producers, that grapes will be grown hydroponically in floating offshore vineyards, and honey bees could be trained to detect wine faults.^[4]