Today…release of Cheval Blanc at a crazy/ambitious price ,£3500, Pavie ambitious but more realistic £1200 and Leoville Lascases at £900 which for a well rated second growth is not un-reasonable. With the French on holiday on thursday (and therefore friday too!) tomorrow should be pretty much the end of En Primeur (Petrus later) and at least this campaign has been 6 weeks from beginning to end rather than 3 months as they have tended to be of late. All in all it’s been a far better one release than expected.

Tonight…..round a few of our Bars in the city with Mr G….should be interesting…the sun is out…