IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO READERS BASED IN THE EU Please note: Due to new changes in VAT rules affecting goods shipped from the UK to the EU, as of 1^st July we have temporarily suspended shipping to the EU. If you would like to buy any single issue of Club Oenologique, you can do so, for the same price, directly from the site of our retailer partner, Newsstand. Apologies for any inconvenience.  In this issue we report on the extraordinary rags-to-riches story of Karuizawa, the whisky that might never have been; on sherry; and on Savoie. We meet top chef Nuno Mendes and visit Stonestreet Farms in Kentucky, owner of the legendary Curlin, who charges $175,000 for (in the quaint racing parlance) covering a mare. We’re hosted for a tasting of Screaming Eagle, one of the most coveted wines in the world; we explain how to build a library of rare and ultra-rare books; and we visit the 180-year-old gunmaker Holland & Holland. Then we taste 20 vintages of old Napa and California, rare and independent whisky bottlings, Brunello di Montalcino and the wines of Greece. And on our photography pages we celebrate the life of Lucia Moholy of the Bauhaus, and publish, for the first time, some wonderful images of old Bordeaux.