Parker's 2009 bordeaux tasting in HK

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Late morning on the last day of WineFuture Hong Kong was devoted to a tasting for about 1,000 tasters of 20 red bordeaux 2009s presented by Robert Parker (see this video clip). The numbers were swollen by the massed ranks of Bordelais, there presumably for the wine fair at the end of the previous week and to do their best to promote their brands in Asia, but also, most importantly, to hear what the American wine guru had to say about them and their wines.

Organiser of the event, Pancho Campo MW, inevitably did a little marketing of...