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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.

1996 Château Pichon-Longueville Baron

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

RP  91   
WS  90   
ST  90   
JR  16   

1996 Château Pichon-Longueville Baron

Light capsule condition issue

RP  91   
WS  90   
ST  90   
JR  16   

1990 Château La Conseillante

Capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; label condition issue

RP  97   
WS  90   

1995 Château Calon-Segur

375ml

WS  96   
WA  95   
RP  92   
ST  91   
JR  18   
DE  ***   

1998 Château L'Evangile

Capsule condition issue; base neck fill

WS  98   
ST  93   
RP  92   

1996 Château Troplong-Mondot

Light capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; base neck fill; light label condition issue

1996 Château Troplong-Mondot

Base neck fill; light label condition issue

1996 Château Troplong-Mondot

Light label condition issue

1996 Château Troplong-Mondot

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

1994 Château Rauzan-Segla

15.0ltr

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

WS  90   

1990 Château Canon

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

WA  93   
WS  91   

1990 Château Canon

Light label condition issue

WA  93   
WS  91   

1994 Château Clerc-Milon

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

1998 Château Trotanoy

3.0ltr

WS  97   
RP  96   
ST  94+    
JR  15.5   

1996 Château La Mondotte

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

RP  97   
ST  91+    

1998 Château La Mondotte

3.0ltr

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

RP  96   
WS  96   
ST  91+    

1999 Château La Mondotte

RP  94   

1990 Château Suduiraut

375ml

Label condition issue

WS  95   
ST  92   

1996 Château Le Tertre-Roteboeuf

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

RP  90   
ST  89-91   

1997 Clos du Marquis

1997 Clos du Marquis

Light label condition issue

1995 Château Sociando-Mallet

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

WS  91   
RP  90   

1992 Château Meyney

375ml

Top shoulder fill

1999 Château Faugeres

1999 Château Nenin

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

WS  90