Surprise parcel from Bordeaux: StEmilion Grand Screw The day before yesterday saw an odyssee back and forth two times to two different post offices in my neighbourhood to track down a parcel. Surprise when I saw the sender: Vignobles Magnaudeix in St-Émilion. Even more surprise when I opened the box: 3 bottles of wine. (These are the moments where I praise living in the European Union where wine can be shipped without the slightest hbuttle from one country to another without bothering about license, duties, taxes or burocracy whatsoever.) The wines are all from 2003 (with retail prices in euros ex chateau for "France métropolitaine", mainland France): Ch. Vieux Larmande (13.90) Vieux Ch. Pelletan (12) Le Tertre de Sarpe (8.90) The first two are St-Émilion Grand Cru, the latter (the second wine of Vieux Ch. Pelletan) is St-Émilion tout court. And the most interesting detail: They come under Stelvin Lux screw-caps! The first red Bordeaux under screw-cap is here, they even managed to surpbutt Ch. d'Agbuttac! I will open them shortly and post TNs. How come I received them? When writing my Vinexpo report, via google I found a page from Sud-Ouest (the Bordeaux daily newspaper) that a third exhibitor at Vinexpo besides Agbuttac and Alsace's Paul Zinck were showing bottlings under Stelvin Lux screwcaps. These are the caps that look like a traditional capsule, you don't see the screw from the outside. I found the mail address of M. & Mme. Magnaudeix in the French telephone directory on the web, and I mailed them last July - without answer until the day before yesterday. (Btw, M. & Mme. are not married, but brother and sister.) M. 
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