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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.

2000 Duluc de Branaire-Ducru

1.5ltr

2000 Duluc de Branaire-Ducru

1-bottle Lot, Wood Case, 6.0ltr

2009 Château Capbern Gasqueton

1.5ltr

2000 Domaine des Graves d'Ardonneau

1.5ltr

Lightly depressed cork; light label condition issue

1970 Château Pavie

1.5ltr

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

MB  ***   

2008 Château Angludet

3.0ltr

2009 Château Potensac

1.5ltr

Light label condition issue

RP  89-91   
2 available
Bid

1976 Château Rieussec

1.5ltr

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

RP  90   
MB  ****   

1976 Château Rieussec

1.5ltr

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

RP  90   
MB  ****   

2005 Château Joanin Becot

1.5ltr

RP  90   
ST  89-91   

1970 Château Haut-Brion

1.5ltr

Capsule condition issue; light signs of past seepage; 6.5 cm ullage; light label condition issue

WS  90   

1999 Château Griffe de Cap d'Or

1.5ltr

Light capsule condition issue; label condition issue

WS  90   

2010 Château du Glana

1.5ltr

Light label condition issue

WS  90   
JS  90-91   
WE  90   
2 available
Bid

2010 Château du Glana

1.5ltr

WS  90   
JS  90-91   
WE  90   

2010 Château Lalande Borie

6.0ltr

Light label condition issue

WS  91   
JR  15.5   

2010 Château Lalande Borie

6.0ltr

WS  91   
JR  15.5   

1989 Château Gruaud-Larose

1.5ltr

Light label condition issue

WS  91   
JR  16   

1989 Château Gruaud-Larose

1.5ltr

Capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

WS  91   
JR  16   

1998 Château Palmer

6.0ltr

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

RP  91   
WS  90   
ST  90-91   

2010 Château Fombrauge

1.5ltr

WS  92   
RP  91   

2005 Château Dauzac

1.5ltr

Light label condition issue

WS  92-94   
RP  90+    

1998 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

1.5ltr

RP  93   
WS  93   
ST  92+    

1998 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

1.5ltr

Lightly depressed cork

RP  93   
WS  93   
ST  92+    

1985 Pavillon Rouge du Margaux

1.5ltr

Lightly elevated cork; base neck fill

WS  93   

1994 Petrus

1.5ltr

Label condition issue

RP  93   
WS  93