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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.

1982 Château La Mission Haut Brion

Light capsule condition issue; top shoulder fill

WA  100   
JD  100   
JS  97   
CT  95.9   
DE  96   
ST  95   
JR  19   
WS  94   
VN  94   

1985 Château La Mission Haut Brion

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

RP  92   
WS  90   

1985 Château La Mission Haut Brion

Light capsule condition issue; light signs of past seepage; base neck fill; light label condition issue

RP  92   
WS  90   

1983 Château Cheval-Blanc

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

MB  *****   
WS  96   
RP  93   
JR  18.5   

1983 Château Cheval-Blanc

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

MB  *****   
WS  96   
RP  93   
JR  18.5   

1983 Château Cheval-Blanc

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

MB  *****   
WS  96   
RP  93   
JR  18.5   

1983 Château Cheval-Blanc

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

MB  *****   
WS  96   
RP  93   
JR  18.5   

1983 Château Cheval-Blanc

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

MB  *****   
WS  96   
RP  93   
JR  18.5   

1981 Château Lynch-Bages

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

CT  90.8   
WS  90   

1982 Château Lynch-Bages

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

WS  96   
RP  94   
CT  93.9   

1983 Château Lynch-Bages

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

WS  90   

1983 Château Lynch-Bages

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

WS  90   

1985 Château Lynch-Bages

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

MB  *****   
WS  95   
RP  90   
JR  18   
WS  #1 of 1988   

1985 Château Lynch-Bages

Light capsule condition issue; light signs of past seepage; base neck fill; light label condition issue

MB  *****   
WS  95   
RP  90   
JR  18   
WS  #1 of 1988   

1985 Château Lynch-Bages

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

MB  *****   
WS  95   
RP  90   
JR  18   
WS  #1 of 1988   

1985 Château Lynch-Bages

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

MB  *****   
WS  95   
RP  90   
JR  18   
WS  #1 of 1988   

1985 Château Lynch-Bages

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

MB  *****   
WS  95   
RP  90   
JR  18   
WS  #1 of 1988   

1989 Château Lynch-Bages

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

DE  *****   
RP  99+    
WS  98   
VN  95   
JR  17.5   
2 available
Bid *

1989 Château Lynch-Bages

Light capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; signs of past seepage; base neck fill; light label condition issue

DE  *****   
RP  99+    
WS  98   
VN  95   
JR  17.5   

1989 Château Lynch-Bages

Light capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; signs of past seepage; base neck fill; light label condition issue

DE  *****   
RP  99+    
WS  98   
VN  95   
JR  17.5   

1981 Cos d'Estournel

Light capsule condition issue; light signs of past seepage; base neck fill; label condition issue

MB  ****   

1982 Cos d'Estournel

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

RP  95   
WS  95   
ST  94   
JR  18.5   
4 available
Bid *

1982 Cos d'Estournel

Light capsule condition issue; light signs of past seepage; light label condition issue

RP  95   
WS  95   
ST  94   
JR  18.5   

1983 Cos d'Estournel

Top shoulder fill

WS  91   
4 available
Bid *

1983 Cos d'Estournel

Light capsule condition issue; light signs of past seepage; base neck fill; label condition issue

WS  91