One of the highlights of our year used to be driving out to the Cotswold home of my mentor Edmund Penning-Rowsell and his wife Meg to taste over dinner with the Broadbents the Bordeaux first growths at some point during their tenth anniversary or so. You can read more about this extraordinary man and this annual ritual in Penning-Rowsell the host, in the introduction to Bordeaux 1996 – how do they look now?.
According to Michael Broadbent (pictured here), the first of E P-R's 10-year dinners took place in 1969. We first went in 1981, when we tasted...