My first thoughts, if asked to isolate just four major owners of grand crus that (for those with very deep pockets) would be hyper-attractive ownership propositions, would be to choose Leroy, Camus, Thénard and Damoy – roughly in that order. It seems that my list has already shrunk to three…

More details will doubtless come to corroborate, or otherwise, the suggestion of up to a 500 million Euro price-tag – it doesn’t sound all that expensive for significantly the largest owner of Clos de Bèze – but given the more challenging marketplace for red grand crus right now, who’s to say…

*Also the first Genesis album that I purchased !!