Berry Bros launches publishing division

Britain’s oldest wine and spirit merchant has launched a publishing arm.

Berry Bros & Rudd Press is a new division within the UK-based wine company and will launch in October with a book by Burgundy buyer Jasper Morris MW.

Vicky Williams, PR manager at BBR, told decanter.com, ‘We have set up Berry Bros & Rudd Press to bring Jasper’s new book, Inside Burgundy, to the market and hope that it will be the first of many titles.

‘There are a lot of books that would suit a niche press company, something a bit different but something we feel consumers will like,’ she added.

This will be welcome news to many speciailist wine writers who have been forced to self-publish their books after many wine book specialists slashed their output.

The initial print run of the book, Inside Burgundy, will produce 5000 copies, and will be sold in Berrys’ stores and its website for £50.

Written by Rebecca Gibb

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Rebecca Gibb MW is a wine journalist and editor who has also founded Bamboozled games, ‘the world’s first wine and spirit puzzle makers’. Having spent six years living in New Zealand, she has recently returned to her native north-east England. While in New Zealand, she became a Master of Wine, graduating top of her class and winning the Madame Bollinger medal for excellence in tasting. A former winner of both the UK’s young wine writer of the year and the Louis Roederer Emerging Wine Writer, her first book The Wines of New Zealand was published in 2018. She also runs wine events and has her own consultancy business The Drinks Project. She was a judge at the 2019 Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA).