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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 Lafite-Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue; heavy label condition issue

WS  94   
JR  18.5   
RP  90   
MB  ****/*   

1989 Château Mouton Rothschild

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

WS  91   
RP  90   
VN  90   
JR  18   
MB  ***/**   

1989 Château Mouton Rothschild

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

WS  91   
RP  90   
VN  90   
JR  18   
MB  ***/**   

1989 Château Haut-Brion

Light label condition issue

RP  100   
WS  100   
JS  100   
ST  97   
JR  19   
3 available
Bid *

1989 Château Lafleur

Base neck fill; light label condition issue

WS  97   
RP  95   
JR  19   
ST  94   
2 available
Bid *

1989 Château Lafleur

Very top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

WS  97   
RP  95   
JR  19   
ST  94   

1989 Château Sociando-Mallet

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

RP  90   
WS  90   

1988 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; label condition issue

RP  94   
WS  90   
JR  17.5   

1988 Château Mouton Rothschild

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

JS  93   
WS  92   
JR  17+    
MB  ***/*   

1988 Château Mouton Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue; top shoulder fill

JS  93   
WS  92   
JR  17+    
MB  ***/*   

1988 Château Mouton Rothschild

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

JS  93   
WS  92   
JR  17+    
MB  ***/*   

1988 Château Mouton Rothschild

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

JS  93   
WS  92   
JR  17+    
MB  ***/*   

1988 Château Mouton Rothschild

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

JS  93   
WS  92   
JR  17+    
MB  ***/*   

1988 Château Margaux

Light label condition issue

WS  96   

1988 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

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

WS  95   
RP  92   
MB  */***   
2 available
Bid *

1988 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

Capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; base neck fill; label condition issue

WS  95   
RP  92   
MB  */***   
2 available
Bid *

1988 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

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

WS  95   
RP  92   
MB  */***   

1988 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

Signs of past seepage; top shoulder fill

WS  95   
RP  92   
MB  */***   

1988 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

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

WS  95   
RP  92   
MB  */***   

1988 Château Pichon-Longueville-Comtesse-de-Lalande

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

WS  91   
RP  90   
2 available
Bid *

1988 Château Pichon-Longueville-Comtesse-de-Lalande

Light capsule condition issue; label condition issue

WS  91   
RP  90   

1988 Château Palmer

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

WS  96   

1988 Château Le Gay

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

1988 Château Poujeaux

Capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; base neck fill; light label condition issue

1987 Château Lafite-Rothschild

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