Bordeaux 2009 – don't part with a penny!

Shocking tales are emerging of opportunistic entrepreneurs trying to persuade inexperienced wine buyers to invest in 2009 bordeaux before any serious prices have even been released – let alone any allocations made.

It is a familiar and justifiable practice among well-established primeur merchants such as the UK specialists we list here to ask their customers to submit wish lists. But because there has been such...