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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.

1970 Château Haut-Brion

1.5ltr

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

WS  90   

1971 Château Gazin

1.5ltr

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

1976 Château La Mission Haut Brion

3.0ltr

Capsule condition issue; depressed cork; mid shoulder fill; light label condition issue

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  ****   

1982 Château Kirwan

1.5ltr

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

1986 Château Mouton Rothschild

1.5ltr

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

RP  100   
JS  100   
WS  99   
ST  95   
JR  18.5   
MB  **/***   

1986 Château Mouton Rothschild

1.5ltr

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

RP  100   
JS  100   
WS  99   
ST  95   
JR  18.5   
MB  **/***   

1986 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

1.5ltr

Capsule condition issue

RP  100   
ST  97+    
WS  96   
JR  16   

1988 Château Lafite-Rothschild

3.0ltr

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

RP  94   
WS  90   
JR  17.5   

1990 Château d'Yquem

1.5ltr

RP  99   
WS  95   
ST  94   
JR  18   
2 available
Bid *

1994 Petrus

1.5ltr

Label condition issue

RP  93   
WS  93   

1996 Château Lafite-Rothschild

1.5ltr

Light capsule condition issue

RP  100   
ST  96+    
WS  95   
JR  19   

1997 Château Rieussec

1.5ltr

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

ST  92   
RP  91   
JR  17   

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   

1998 Château La Mondotte

3.0ltr

Light label condition issue; light writing on label; signed bottle

RP  96   
WS  96   
ST  91+    

2000 Château Mouton Rothschild

6.0ltr

Etched bottle

RP  96+    
ST  94   
WS  93   
JS  93   
JR  17.5   

2000 Château Haut-Brion

1.5ltr

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

RP  99   
ST  96   
WE  96   
WS  94   
JR  18   
4 available
Bid *

2000 Château Haut-Brion

1.5ltr

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

RP  99   
ST  96   
WE  96   
WS  94   
JR  18   

2000 Château Cheval-Blanc

6.0ltr

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

RP  99   
WE  97   
VN  94+    
WS  93   
JR  18.5   

2000 Château La Conseillante

6.0ltr

Light signs of past seepage; light label condition issue

RP  96   
WS  90   
ST  90-93   
JR  17.5   

2000 Château Ausone

6.0ltr

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

RP  98+    
WE  98   
WS  97   
ST  97+    
JR  18   

2003 Château Pontet-Canet

1.5ltr

Light label condition issue

RP  95   
WS  94   
ST  93   
WE  91   
JR  16   
WS  #39 of 2006   

2003 Château Pontet-Canet

1.5ltr

RP  95   
WS  94   
ST  93   
WE  91   
JR  16   
WS  #39 of 2006   

2003 Château Pontet-Canet

1.5ltr

RP  95   
WS  94   
ST  93   
WE  91   
JR  16   
WS  #39 of 2006