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2004 Bordeaux – One broker’s best sellers

This is just in from Fine & Rare Wines of London. It’s just one trader’s experience but I thought it might be of some interest to purple pagers.

 

Top 10 Wines of 2004


Now that the campaign has come to its conclusion, it may be interesting to review where the real success stories lie, excluding the first growths etc. It is crystal clear in looking at the top 10 sellers that the wines that did really well were not only extremely well reviewed, but that the proprietors understood the market properly. We applaud them!

It was hugely disappointing to...

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