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1998 first growths 10 years on

Last August I reported on a tasting of 1997 first growths 10 years on, a revival of an annual tradition established by the late Edmund Penning- Rowsell. Here are notes on this year's successor.

Fine & Rare Wines hosted a tasting of 1998 first growths and other top wines in Vintners’ Hall in London earlier this week and kindly asked me and Neal Martin to sneak in early and take our own notes. The first wine was meant to be Ch Pavie 1998 which I had rather liked when I last tasted it at Farr Vintners’ 1998 blind tasting...