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How a phone call to ‘Papa’ opened the doors for the Bordeaux scoop of the year


Sometimes it is all about connections. Top-end Bordeaux is an elite and expensive club where the best deals are done behind closed doors. So when Jean-Marc, our born-and-bred Bordeaux Buyer, received this unmissable opportunity from his impeccably connected fi ne wine broker son, he pounced!


“Papa, I have 550 cases of top Margaux 2014 from last year’s en primeur campaign – a small surplus not reserved. The estate would like to discreetly place them on the market. You can’t name this estate but it is a Second Growth of aristocratic pedigree, barely a mile from Château Margaux itself.”


Insider access – for just £30 £19.99 a bottle


Each vintage, the fi nest estates – the classed ‘Growths’ – release precious allocations of their best bottles. Private collectors reserve these ‘en primeur’, while the wine is in barrel. Occasionally, not all the wine is taken up. So a barrel or two may be discreetly bottled and privately released to avoid any loss of face. This a bargain. Hurry: only 550 cases.


Classic, oak-matured Margaux, billowing with toasty blackberry, black cherry, chocolate and crème de cassis before a dense yet beautifully structured core of juicy, succulent black fruit. AMAZING – really, really classy. And an absolute steal at the price. 13% Vol.


L’Epiphanie de Margaux 2014, Margaux AOC £360


£180


£239.88 £119.94


£30 £19.99 a bottle


12 btls 6 btls


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£120


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SAVE up to £120 Order at laithwaites.co.uk or call 03330 148 200 33


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