Concha y Toro update

Those of you who are at all interested in Chilean wines will have noticed I am pretty impressed by this large wine producer's performance at the moment. You may remember my raving about their Winemaker's Lot 32 Malbec 2001 Cachapoal which was my wine of the week last 1 October. The first lot of this wine imported exclusively by the British chain Oddbins sold out in a trice – at just £5.99.

The other day I had the chance to taste the second tranche of these special bottlings for Oddbins and, interestingly, the Malbec has gone into its shell. It...