Berry Brothers & Rudd is primarily a wine merchant with a remarkable history stretching back to 1698. In addition, as far back as the 19th century the company was offering carefully selected whiskies to its customers.

There are still bottlings of Berry Brothers single malts dating from the late 19th century in existence in some collections - they were one of the earliest companies to do bespoke independent bottlings, and these rare beauties still occasionally turn up at auction.

Throughout the 20th century Berry's took further steps into whisky by bottling more single malts under their own label, and in 1923 Berry's created a blend which would subsequently become enormously successful in America despite the country's Prohibition laws: Cutty Sark, which by the 1960s was the most popular blended Scotch whisky in the USA.

After sporadic whisky releases throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Berry Bros increased the frequency and scope of their bottlings around the turn of the century, building up a remarkable and broad range of excellent bottlings.

The Cutty Sark brand was sold in 2010 to Edrington Group, who later sold it on to Glen Moray's owner La Martiniquaise. As part of the Cutty Sark deal, Berry's acquired the rights to the Glenrothes single malt brand from Edrington, although the latter retained the distillery and eventually bought the Glenrothes brand back from Berry Bros in 2017.

Today Berry Brothers & Rudd continue to release carefully selected single casks and small batches of single malt whisky and rum alongside in-house blended malts of high renown.