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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.

1989 Château Talbot

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

DE  ***   

1989 Château Talbot

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

DE  ***   

1989 Château Talbot

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

DE  ***   

1989 Château Talbot

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

DE  ***   

1989 Château Talbot

Very top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

DE  ***   

2009 Château Talbot

Light label condition issue

RP  91   
WS  91   
ST  91   

2009 Château Talbot

RP  91   
WS  91   
ST  91   

2010 Château Talbot

Light label condition issue

RP  94   
JS  94   
WE  93   
WS  91   
ST  91+    
CT  91.4   
JR  17   
2 available
Bid

1970 Château Suduiraut

Heavy capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; lightly elevated cork; signs of past seepage; base neck fill; label condition issue

MB  ***   

1975 Château Suduiraut

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

1982 Château Suduiraut

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

1982 Château Suduiraut

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

1988 Château Suduiraut

375ml

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

WS  92   
2 available
Bid *

2004 Château Suduiraut

ST  88-91   
3 available
Bid *

2004 Château Suduiraut

Signs of past seepage; light label condition issue

ST  88-91   

2004 Château Suduiraut

Light label condition issue

ST  88-91   

1985 Château Soutard

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

RP  90   

1983 Château Sociando-Mallet

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

WS  92   
5 available
Bid *

1983 Château Sociando-Mallet

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

WS  92   

1988 Château Sociando-Mallet

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

WS  91   
2 available
Bid *

1982 Château Sociando-Mallet

12-bottle Lot, Wood Case

See item details for bottle notes

RP  90   

2003 Château Smith-Haut-Lafitte

Light label condition issue

WS  93   
RP  91   
ST  91   
JR  16   
WS  #58 of 2006   

2019 Château Smith-Haut-Lafitte

JS  99   
JD  98   
VN  97   
WA  96   
WE  96   
WS  95   
JR  17+    

2005 Château Smith-Haut-Lafitte

12-bottle Lot, Wood Case

RP  98   
JS  95   
WS  93   
ST  93   
JR  17   

2008 Château Smith-Haut-Lafitte

12-bottle Lot, Wood Case

RP  92   
WS  91   
ST  91+    
JR  17