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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.

1966 Château Ausone

Capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; top shoulder fill; heavy label condition issue

1976 Château Ausone

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

RP  94   

1976 Château Ausone

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

RP  94   

1967 Château Cheval-Blanc

Capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; top shoulder fill; label condition issue

1967 Château Cheval-Blanc

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

1978 Château Cheval-Blanc

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

MB  ****   
2 available
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1978 Château Cheval-Blanc

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

MB  ****   

1979 Château Cheval-Blanc

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

MB  ****   

1978 Château Clerc-Milon

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

1966 Château d'Yquem

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

MB  ****   

1966 Château Giscours

Depressed cork; light signs of past seepage; base neck fill; heavy label condition issue

1961 Château Grand-Puy-Ducasse

Capsule condition issue; mid shoulder fill; label condition issue

1978 Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste

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

RP  90   
MB  ****   

1978 Château Gruaud-Larose

Light capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; label condition issue

WS  91   

1959 Château Haut-Brion

Capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; 4.5 cm ullage; label condition issue

JR  20   
MB  *****   
WS  98   
RP  93   
ST  93   
CC  17.5   

1970 Château Haut-Brion

1.5ltr

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

WS  90   

1978 Château Haut-Brion

Light capsule condition issue; 3 cm ullage; label condition issue

RP  90   
WS  90   

1970 Château Haut-Brion Blanc

Capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; 3.5 cm ullage; heavy label condition issue; back label missing

1959 Château Lafite-Rothschild

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

MB  *****   
RP  99   
ST  97   
WS  94   
3 available
Bid *

1961 Château Lafite-Rothschild

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

MB  *****   
WS  94   
VN  91   
JS  90   

1966 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Capsule condition issue; top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

WA  96   
VN  94   
MB  ****   

1970 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Capsule condition issue; top shoulder fill; heavy label condition issue

JR  17.5   
MB  ****   

1974 Château Lafite-Rothschild

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

1975 Château Lafite-Rothschild

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

WA  93   
MB  ***   

1977 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Capsule condition issue; very top shoulder fill; label condition issue; light writing on label