English wine merchant Barry Phillips of Four Walls Wine (once of The White Horse at Chilgrove whose wine list won many an award) appended these rather sickening observations to a recent email to me:
We enjoyed a few bottles of 1967 Lynch Bages on Christmas Day at our son's house. I bought these en primeur for him from Morgan Furze in 1969 at £19.20 ($33) a dozen. Seems cheap until I look at the Petrus 1967 for which I paid £32.70 ($55). I was not just allowed to buy six cases, but they actually begged me to help them by...