Spain invades St James's

Spanish wine really must be hot. I’ve been to two fine wine tasting lunches in the last few days with Berry Bros and Justerini & Brooks respectively and both had a Spanish theme, indeed both – spookily – centred on a Ribera del Duero blue chip producer beginning with A.

 

Berry Bros and J&B are the arch-rival smart, super-traditional fine wine merchants either side of St James’s Street in London. What one does one day, the other does within at least a few years (online retailing for example – though J&B is probably unlikely to follow Berrys into airport...