Mouton-Rothschild, the gift for a ‘friend’

Clearly Tony Blair would be best advised to take round a bottle of Wooldings ’94, rather than Mouton ’89 the next time he pops over to the Palace for dinner. As has been widely reported in the media, the Prime Minister recently received half a case of Château Mouton-Rothschild’s 1989 vintage as a 50th birthday present from President Jacques Chirac.

This diplomatic peace offering, designed to soothe the Anglo-French relations that were so severely …

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