The prodigious modernist Dr Alain Raynaud has taken a small historic step in to the Bordeaux place [wine market] by being the first officially to release his 2002 vintage of Ch Quinault l'Enclos – at a sizeable reduction on last year's price: 29 from (a way overpriced) 42 euros a bottle, a nice neat reduction of 25 per cent.
If the first growths were to follow suit by the same proportion, their per bottle release prices to the Bordeaux négociants would be just under 64 euros a bottle, though we are all hoping it will be closer to 60 or...