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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.

1985 Château Margaux

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

WA  96   
RP  95   

1986 Château Margaux

Capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; light label condition issue

RP  98   
WS  93   
JR  17+    

1989 Château Margaux

Lightly depressed cork; label condition issue

WS  97   
CT  94.3   
RP  90   
JR  17   

1989 Château Margaux

Lightly depressed cork; base neck fill or better

WS  97   
CT  94.3   
RP  90   
JR  17   

1989 Château Margaux

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

WS  97   
CT  94.3   
RP  90   
JR  17   

1992 Château Margaux

Lightly depressed cork; light signs of past seepage; light label condition issue

1998 Château Margaux

Light capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; light label condition issue

WS  92   
ST  92+    
JR  18.5   
RP  91   

1998 Château Margaux

WS  92   
ST  92+    
JR  18.5   
RP  91   

2014 Château Margaux

Light label condition issue

JS  97   
WE  97   
WA  95   
WS  95   
CT  94.7   

2019 Château Margaux

Light label condition issue

WS  100   

2019 Château Margaux

Lightly depressed cork

WS  100   

2011-2012 Château Margaux

2-bottle Vertical

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1982 Pavillon Rouge du Margaux

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

WS  92   

1982 Pavillon Rouge du Margaux

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

WS  92   

1983 Pavillon Rouge du Margaux

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

1955 Château Latour

375ml

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

MB  *****   
VN  97   
JS  95   
RP  94   
WS  94   
CT  93.8   
JR  18.5   

1966 Château Latour

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

MB  *****   
RP  96   
WS  92   

1966 Château Latour

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

MB  *****   
RP  96   
WS  92   

1966 Château Latour

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

MB  *****   
RP  96   
WS  92   

1967 Château Latour

Light capsule condition issue; mid shoulder fill; light label condition issue

1967 Château Latour

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

1975 Château Latour

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

WS  93   
RP  90   
MB  ***   

1975 Château Latour

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

WS  93   
RP  90   
MB  ***   

1975 Château Latour

Light capsule condition issue; mid shoulder fill; light label condition issue

WS  93   
RP  90   
MB  ***   

1979 Château Latour

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