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Bordeaux

Bordeaux is the world’s most famous fine-wine producing region. Even non-wine drinkers recognize the names of Bordeaux’s celebrated wines, such as Margaux and Lafite-Rothschild. Located near the Atlantic coast in southwest France, the region takes its name from the seaport city of Bordeaux, a wine trading center with an outstanding site on the Garonne River and easy access to the Atlantic. Like most French wine regions, Bordeaux’s first vineyards were planted by the Romans more than 2,000 years ago, then tended by medieval monks. Aristocrats and nobility later owned the region’s best estates and today estates are owned by everyone from non-French business conglomerates to families who have been proprietors for generations. Bordeaux has nearly 280,000 acres of vineyards, 57 appellations and 10,000 wine-producing châteaux. Bordeaux is bifurcated by the Gironde Estuary into so-called “right bank” and “left bank” appellations. Bordeaux’s red wines are blends of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Cabernet Franc and Malbec. It also makes white wines of Sémillon, Sauvignon Blanc and Muscadelle. There are several classification systems in Bordeaux. All are attempts to rank the estates based on the historic quality of the wines.

1991 Château d'Yquem

Top shoulder fill

JR  17   

1970 Château d'Yquem

Light capsule condition issue; signs of past seepage; top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

RP  90   
JR  17   
MB  ***   

1964 Château Haut-Brion

Light capsule condition issue; signs of past seepage; 4.5 cm ullage; light label condition issue

RP  90   
MB  ****   

1964 Château Haut-Brion

Light capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; signs of past seepage; 5 cm ullage; light label condition issue

RP  90   
MB  ****   

1993 Château Mouton Rothschild Balthus

Lightly elevated cork

RP  90   
WS  90   
JS  90   
JR  16.5   

1966 Château Margaux

Light capsule condition issue; signs of past seepage; mid shoulder fill; light label condition issue

WA  91   
WS  90   
MB  ****   

1994 Château Margaux

Base neck fill; light label condition issue

RP  91+    
WS  90   

2000 Château Beau Soleil

12-bottle Lot, Wood Case

Light capsule condition issue

WS  91   

1975 Château Latour

Top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

WS  93   
RP  90   
MB  ***   

1994, 1997 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

2-bottle Vertical

See item details for bottle notes

2002 Château Haut-Brion

Light label condition issue

WS  93   
ST  92+    
JR  17.5+    

1999 Chateau Le Pin

1.5ltr

Light label condition issue

RP  93   
WS  93   
ST  92-94   

2001 Château Haut-Brion Blanc

Light label condition issue

RP  93   
ST  93   
WS  92   
JR  18   

1970 Château Pichon-Longueville-Comtesse-de-Lalande

Light capsule condition issue; base neck fill; light label condition issue

WS  94   
MB  ***   

1966 Château La Mission Haut Brion

Lightly elevated cork; light signs of past seepage; base neck fill; light label condition issue

WA  94   
WS  93   
JR  17   

2008 Château Margaux

RP  94   
VN  93+    
WS  91   
JR  17   

1995 Château d'Yquem

Light capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; base neck fill

WA  95   
JR  18.5   
MB  ***/*   

2004 Château Latour

RP  95   
WS  95   
ST  94   
JR  15.5   

2000 Château Gruaud-Larose

12-bottle Lot, Wood Case

WS  95   
RP  94   
ST  93   
JR  17.5   
WS  #59 of 2003   

2003 Château Mouton Rothschild

RP  95+    
WS  94   
WE  94   
ST  93   
JR  17.5   

2000 Château Pavie-Macquin

6-bottle Lot, Wood Case

RP  95+    
WS  92   
ST  92-94   

1970 Château Mouton Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue; signs of past seepage; mid shoulder fill; light label condition issue

WS  96   
VN  94   
RP  93   
JR  16.5   
MB  ***   

1970 Château Mouton Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; signs of past seepage; mid shoulder fill; light label condition issue

WS  96   
VN  94   
RP  93   
JR  16.5   
MB  ***   

1970 Château Mouton Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; signs of past seepage; mid shoulder fill; light label condition issue

WS  96   
VN  94   
RP  93   
JR  16.5   
MB  ***   

1970 Château Mouton Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; signs of past seepage; top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

WS  96   
VN  94   
RP  93   
JR  16.5   
MB  ***