 So is this a winter version of the Rab Boreas? If that is the case I am getting one!
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 And top marks to Rab, they're doing it in girlies' too 
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Does that mean in baby blue too, Kate??
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 Call me a miserable old cheapskate - you'll not be the first - but seventy five quid? Better to get last year's wonder fleece at end-of-line prices. But then, Christmas is coming - might just print the article off and leave it lying about - perhaps mention it in conversation a few times ...
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If I did that Grumps I'd probably end up with yet another Craghoppers fleece in some awful colour.
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Just in 'dark lead' LiL, not baby blue 
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 Definitely not the winter version of the Boreas, the Boreas is a thin, stretch, soft shell, this is a base layer come lightweight mid-layer and very different. There isn't really a winter Boreas, I'd maybe look at VaporRise if that's what you're after. Or a hooded soft shell. Or...
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OK, thanks for the clarification Jon!
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 What it would do in winter is go under the boreas rather efficiently
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Well yes But it is also at least (comfortably) cheaper than the R1, and actually the current hooded smoulder. From Bergahus' website that seems to have reverted to high efficiency power dry (from an own brand fabric) but is now only hooded in jacket form. Maybe a pain if planing to use as a base layer. Hooded fleeces in general aren't cheap, partially because I think no 'casual' sales. And yes nothing is cheap at full RRP nowadays. Although if you treat it as something to get and use for a long time (it'll last), then its not so bad.
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 well, yes, it's a fiver cheaper than the Berhaus: Snow+Rock and Gaynor Sport are doing the smoulder for £80 (best not talk about Patagucci, I hear there are people on here with delicate dispositions), but point taken about the "jacket" version. Quite why they stopped doing the original version in the linked review I've no idea, especially as the R1 was so popular and the Smoulder got such good reviews...... So good, in fact, that I bought on last year and have been very impressed by it.
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Well the first thing Berghaus seemed to try was going to the same design but in an own brand fabric. (not really gridded in the same way iirc.). Now this. Suppose the lesson must be that hodded pullovers don't sell masses (unless perhaps you're Pattaguicci  )
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What it would do in winter is go under the boreas rather efficiently
I think that could work rather well! Right, off to put it on the christmas list!
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