Mark Lipton > wrote:

>> When do Robert Parker's ratings of the 2005 vintage come out?
>> Interested in buying futures and want to plan

> Well, since the 2005 harvest has yet to occur in the Northern
> hemisphere, you can be assured that it won't be any time soon.
> His first, preliminary assessment of the 2005 Bordeaux (from
> barrel samples) will be in his Feb. 2006 issue.

No, has always been*) - and certainly will be - in the April
issue.

*) except for the year of the 2nd gulf war, when he postponed his
Bordeaux trip from spring to fall.

M.