Last Saturday night I was flattered to be invited as guest of honour at this year's London fine-wine dinner in aid of the Pebbles Project for child victims of foetal alcohol syndrome in South Africa organised by Keith Prothero, with most of the wines donated from his ever-expanding collection. My contribution was modest in comparison with that of the following winning bidders, many of them Purple pagers: Nigel Platts-Martin, owner of The Square, in whose private room the dinner took place (see both him and the room in the picture on the left), Linden Wilkie of The Fine Wine Experience...