The famous blended Scotch whisky staged two London-based events this week to celebrate its 100th birthday and unveiled a new luxury Centenary Edition expression. DFNI understands that travel retail will receive an allocation. Dubai Duty Free will be one of the first travel retailers to launch the new whisky.
The Drinks Business
08 February 2021 By Lucy Shaw
John Rudd, the former chairman of London-based fine wine merchant Berry Bros. & Rudd and the driving force behind the success of its Cutty Sark Scotch brand, has died age 94.
Former Berry Bros & Rudd chairman John Rudd has died
As reported by
The Telegraph, Rudd, who was born in Buckinghamshire on 9 June 1926, died on 10 January 2021, aged 94.
Rudd was born into a family of wine merchants. His father, Hugh, joined St Jamesâs-based fine wine Berry Bros in 1920, the Rudd family having worked as wine traders in Norwich since 1851.
Originally opening as a grocer in 1698, and a supplier to local coffee houses, the merchant gets its name from brothers George and Henry Berry, who took over the site in 1845.
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