I recently tasted these 17 wines from mail-order merchant Tilley's Wines as a result of a rather unusual set of circumstances. Nick suggested that, to raise money for their favoured Christmas charity, Action Against Hunger, our paper the Financial Times hold an online auction of lunch with various FT writers and editors. Nick's review of Heston Blumenthal's new restaurant Dinner was based on the lunch with him bid for by a couple of FT readers from New York. I am looking forward to lunch at The Ledbury at the end of the month with a couple of wine lovers from...