A tale of five dinners

I have the best job in the world, I know, and am lucky enough to be served far more than my fair share of fine wine at wonderful wine-focused dinners. But in one nine-day stretch recently, I was lucky enough to attend five of these dinners – all private. I describe them in shamefully boastful detail in Vintage overkill?, but below are my detailed tasting notes on all of these famous wines.

The picture shows just some of the wines served at the first of two dinners on consecutive nights in Switzerland recently. Wines are grouped by dinner and...