There is always calm before the storm, and I fully expect Bordeaux prices to return and exceed their previous highs, although Chateau Lafite Rothschild may not get back to its highs as soon as others.

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Labour's Tom Watson has previously used a series of parliamentary questions and Freedom of Information requests to discover that the cellar featured high-profile wines from the likes of Chateau Latour, Chateau Lafite, Chateau Margaux and Chateau Mouton Rothschild.

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He knew being a realistic man as well as a crashingly impractical one, who once missed Greta Garbo's glass by a mile when serving her at Chateau Lafite, and also drove a horse and trap through a gate only wide enough for the horse that co-ops were hard to create.

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