A good crowd gathering around 4pm
When I arrived around 1.45pm it was quite quiet and easy to move from stand to stand tasting. Fortuntely the showers mainly stayed away apart from a few insignificant drops of rain. By 3.30pm, however, the alley was starting to fill up and by 5pm had become quite a crush. The weather was good for tasting not too hot or cold.
By 5pm definitely quite a crowd
Tasting makes you hungry – ham on the bone, andouillette etc.
More postings to follow – Friday night's vertical and my favourite 2009s following today's tasting
