Not counted:Assets outside control of Evelyn, David and cousin Baron Eric, who oversees Chteau Lafite vineyard.

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The Internet is a rarefied luxury, like a double Corona Havana, or a 1945 Chteau Lafite.

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He also put aside about two cases of wine, including some 1982 Lafite, to send off to auction.

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There is always calm before the storm, and I fully expect Bordeaux prices to return and exceed their previous highs, although Chateau Lafite Rothschild may not get back to its highs as soon as others.

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Labour's Tom Watson has previously used a series of parliamentary questions and Freedom of Information requests to discover that the cellar featured high-profile wines from the likes of Chateau Latour, Chateau Lafite, Chateau Margaux and Chateau Mouton Rothschild.

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The firm could get all the fruit that it needed from all the best places in the region: "Imagine you can bottle a Pauillac which would be a blend of Mouton, Latour and Lafite, " he wrote in an email.

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