Excellent comment on the 2007 vintage from this blog by Nick Stephens:
http://bordeaux-undiscovered.blogspot.com/

He says, among other things, 'After all that has been written in recent weeks it seems to me that the châteaux owners have ignored or dismissed what they may see as potentially adverse comments by ploughing their own furrow and releasing prices based on greed rather than common sense or commercial prowess. I wrote in April that we would see whether the châteaux were product orientated or market orientated – the prices released so far prove that they are product orientated. What business doesn't listen to their customers these days? People who treat their customers like idiots are fools themselves!'

The chateaux here can blame the press for lack of interest in the vintage through bad scores etc all they want, but it does seem increadibly short-sighted and obtuse that prices are coming out so high (public holiday yesterday and Monday, so expect them to start again next tuesday).

Plenty of UK merchants have told me that they were ready for a drinking vintage, that at the right price (even 50% over 2004) the wines would have plenty of buyers and Bordeaux could benefit from a bit of positive PR for once, but the chateaux owners seem literally incapable of listening to anyone but their own neighbours.

Maybe next week there will be some surprises...