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En primeur preference

Addressed to your Bordeaux correspondent Jane Anson: do you personally buy Bordeaux en primeur? And if so, what are you planning to buy from the 2019 vintage for your own personal collection?

Nick Gough, London W2

Jane Anson replies: I do buy en primeur, and enjoy the process, but not in huge quantities because I am on a journalist’s salary! I don’t buy every year – so did not buy in 2017, for example, because this was a more challenging vintage and felt like less

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