(AFP) - French wine capital Bordeaux wrapped up an intense week of barrel tastings of its new vintage Friday, with wines expected to go quickly on sale next week, as chateaux negotiate lower prices. "In terms of attendance, the number of professionals that came for the UGCB events has never been higher," Jean-Marc Guiraud, director of the Union des Grands Crus de Bordeaux (UGCB), told AFP. "Tuesday we had more than 3,500 professionals that visited at least one of the seven tastings -- more than recorded for the presentation of the 2009 and 2010 vintages," he said. Europeans arrived in force and 30 percent of the visitors during the first two days were foreigners, according to Guiraud.