Château Haut-Brion
Premier Grand Cru Classé
Château la Mission Haut-Brion
Grand Cru Classé

33608 PESSAC Cedex
Telephone 05 56 00 29 30
Fax 05 56 98 75 14  

Pessac, 17th Feb. 2000

Registered letter with A.R.

Monsieur Alain DONNART
Data processing and Translations
14 rue François Lévêque
33300 BORDEAUX

Sir,

I safely received your letter of last 7th February . I can only confirm you the request I made previously, namely to tell us your assessment of the damages that you consider to have suffered, along with the corresponding documentary evidences.

Besides, we couldn't think of imparting you the information gathered through the questionnaire sent to the grapeharvesters

and that you know as a recipient.

As you could notice, we undertook to protect the privacy of the results of this inquiry and there is no way to make an exception.

In case you would not wish to answer our demand about the would-be damage, we shall not answer any more to your letters, and, if you consider it convenient, we ask you to get in touch with our consultants for this issue, namely :

Me Andréa LINDNER, Counsel in chambers
3, rue de l'Eglise, 33200 BORDEAUX
Tel. : 05 56 42 31 76

Me Antoine LARRIBET, Counsel in chambers
BARTHELEMY & ASSOCIATES
119, avenue du Général Leclerc, B.P. 28
33019 BORDEAUX Cedex Tel. : 05 57 22 22 70

Yours sincerely.

JBD/VHC

J-B. DELMAS