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Something special from The Sampler

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Every December The Sampler puts a particularly dazzling array of 'icon' wines on taste in one of the 10 sets of Enomatic machines that characterise these wine-geek-friendly wine shops in Islington and South Kensington, London. This year there was/is a slightly different range in the two stores. I had the pleasure of tasting the selection below at South Ken last Monday as did some of my wine writer colleagues, to judge from various tweets.

I have included the price for a smallest taster portion. Judge for yourself which is the best value.

Note the two Bordeaux first growths. I will be...