date:Jul 22, 2014
Austerity politics continued to seep into in the UK government's wine cellar in the last financial year.
Ministers sanctioned the sale of 69 bottles of mature Bordeaux from some of the region's best estates, of which the youngest was six bottles of Chateau Haut-Brion 1989.
Several bottles were sold to UK merchant Farr Vintners, while others were sold at auction, fetching a total 56,000 in the year to the end of March.
The sale included nine bottles of Latour 1961, described by Decanter Stephe