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Bordeaux 2011 – our plans

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Back in January we asked how interested you were in the Bordeaux 2011 primeurs. In Bordeaux 2011 survey – the results you can see how, basically, most Purple Pagers felt unlikely to buy the wines, but still wanted to be able to read a set of tasting notes on this challenging baby vintage.

I’d like to explain our plans. Yesterday poor old Nick (my husband and this site's restaurant critic) underwent major surgery on his gut, a gut that has been plagued by ulcerative colitis since he was a teenager. He had one big operation on his colon in the...