Bordeaux top growths disown generic clarets
The Bordeaux crisis is nothing to do with the classed growths, according to a panel of leading Bordelais.
Guy Woodward is a food, wine and travel editor with more than 20 years’ experience, specialising in luxury lifestyle brands and publications. He is deputy editor of Harrods’ customer magazines and a consultant editor of Club Oenologique. He joined Decanter as deputy editor in 2003 and became an editor four years later. He left in 2012 to become an editor at Food and Travel Magazine.
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