Just before Britain’s four-day Platinum Jubilee celebrations, along with 26 other wine professionals, I spent 14 hours incarcerated in Oswald’s wine-themed members’ club, courtesy of the team at Haut-Brion. You can read more about this extraordinary event a week on Saturday.
Rather to our surprise, the day turned out to be devoted to blind tastings of eight vintages, 2011 to 2018, of St-Émilion’s top wines together with the...