Tag: Quinta do Noval

Three bottles: Simon Berry

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Berry Bros & Rudd is a bit like an old school for me.  It’s where I learnt much of what I know about wine; it’s also where I learned how to sell it, how to buy it, how to do business with integrity and, most importantly, how to look after customers.  If you say “alma […]

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Three bottles: Hew Blair

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I remain intrigued by the question of who knows what and who doesn’t in the UK wine trade.  Tasting, talking, drinking and working with the former camp has taught me most of what I know. I spent 2003 & 2004 working on the other side of St James’s Street: the side where the traffic now […]

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