Broadbent enters The Great Bordeaux Debate

Michael Broadbent, as I said recently in your turn, feels strongly about the debate that has been sparked by my passionate and controversial response to tasting Ch Pavie 2003 and has sent me the following despatch to publish on this site. We did not taste together, nor indeed discuss the issue much. The words and opinions below are, of course, entirely his own (I personally would not want to encourage this American v European angle) but I am delighted  to be able to give a taster of such unrivalled experience a means of having his say without the inevitable...