Here (in the distance) is Union des Grands Crus president Sylvie Cazes carefully giving the official view on the 2008 Bordeaux vintage and its likely pricing, at  the farewell lunch for the wine media at Ch Canon La Gaffelière. Note the need for 'lucidity' on the part of the château owners. (Sylvie is part of the Cazes family, who own, inter alia, Ch Lynch Bages.) You will also see, anticlockwise round my table, ex-president Patrick Maroteaux of Ch Branaire Ducru, Jeannie Cho Lee MW, Pierre Lurton of Chx Cheval Blanc and d'Yquem, wine writers Stephen Brook and Michel Bettane and Count Stephan von Neipperg of Ch Canon La...