The picture here was taken at breakfast just before all participants in a wine think tank that took place recently in the southern Rhône undertook a series of round-table discussions. I will be writing in more detail about the event on Saturday. If you look at it at full width on our home page, you can see Thibault Pontallier, son of Paul Pontallier of Ch Margaux, on the extreme left. Just right of him, Robert Joseph is talking to the French wine writer Michel Bettane and on the extreme right Nick talks to writer and painter Trisha de Borchgrave. The...