News from the Bordeaux primeurs tasting

No other prices have been announced today, 06 apr, but the negociants seem to think that the 2004 campaign will get fully underway relatively soon – none of the hanging about which has characterised so many previous primeur campaigns.

“We are just keeping our fingers crossed that the reductions in price will be big enough”, one of them told me. The local paper, Sud Ouest, devoted a whole page today to the tale of one professional buyer from Japan who had decided to double his usual budget of one million euros to spend on top end bordeaux this year because...