One of the great attractions of the annual get-together to blind-taste a bordeaux vintage in bottle over three days in Southwold, Suffolk, in January is that all participants are encouraged to bring very special bottles to share over our dinners at The Crown Hotel in the evenings. (As if we needed any more wine...)
This year's vintage was 2006 and I will be reporting in bottle-by-bottle detail later this week but for the moment, allow me to report on some of the evening wines. Cellarmaster at this year's session at the end of last week was Lindsay Hamilton, fine...