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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.

2010 La Dame de Montrose

WE  93   
WA  91+    
WS  91   

2005 Arômes de Pavie

RP  90   

2003 Château Branaire-Ducru

RP  94   
JS  94   
WS  93   
VN  92   
ST  92   
WE  91   
JR  15.5   

1984 Château Clerc-Milon

Light capsule condition issue; very top shoulder fill; label condition issue

1975 Château Brane-Cantenac

Light capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

2001 Château Prieure-Lichine

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

2009 Château Prieure-Lichine

RP  93   

1986 Château Giscours

Capsule condition issue; very top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

1986 Château Giscours

Light capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; very top shoulder fill; label condition issue

1995 Château Lafon-Rochet

WS  93   

2018 Clos du Marquis

WE  95   
JD  95+    
WS  94   
WA  93   
VN  92   
JR  16.5   

2005 Château Fleur Cardinale

Light label condition issue

RP  94   
WS  93   
ST  92+    

2005 Château Fleur Cardinale

RP  94   
WS  93   
ST  92+    

2005 Château Fleur Cardinale

RP  94   
WS  93   
ST  92+    

2020 Château La Gaffeliere

Light capsule condition issue

2003 Château Peby-Faugeres

RP  93   
WS  93   
ST  90   

1983 Château Sociando-Mallet

Capsule condition issue; very top shoulder fill; label condition issue

WS  92   

1983 Château Sociando-Mallet

Capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; very top shoulder fill; label condition issue

WS  92   

1983 Château Sociando-Mallet

Capsule condition issue; light signs of past seepage; very top shoulder fill; label condition issue

WS  92   

1986 Château Sociando-Mallet

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

WS  94   

1987 Château Sociando-Mallet

Light capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

1987 Château Sociando-Mallet

Capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; base neck fill; label condition issue

1987 Château Sociando-Mallet

Light capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; mid shoulder fill; label condition issue

2014 Château Coutet

Light label condition issue

WS  96   
WA  93-95   
VN  90-93   
JR  17.5   
WS  #3 of 2017   

2009 Vieux Chateau Mazerat

Lightly elevated cork; light label condition issue

RP  97   
WS  91   
ST  91   
JR  15.5