25 SEPTEMBER 1964, Page 13

FOR SOME CONSUMERS

SiR,--This Spectator reader does not know every- thing and cannot even tell Quoodle about a restaur- ant 'boasting' a wine-list with more forceful sucker- appeal than that which he quotes. However. 1 do know that Chateau Lafite-Rothschild 1829 (let alone 1806) is a nonsensical appellation since that Chfiteau did not become the property of a Rothschild until 1868.

ARTHUR RAU Gregory Hill, Masham Ripon, Yorkshire