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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.

1986 Château Ducru-Beaucaillou

Lightly depressed cork; base neck fill

WS  95   
RP  92   
JR  16   

1986 Château Ducru-Beaucaillou

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

WS  95   
RP  92   
JR  16   

1986 Château Rauzan-Segla

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

DE  *****   
RP  96   

1989 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

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

WS  96   
RP  91   
JR  17   

1986 Château Mouton Baronne Philippe Hommage a Pauline

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

WS  93   
JR  17   

1996 Château d'Yquem

375ml

Label condition issue

DE  *****   
WS  96   
RP  95   
JR  18.5   

2010 Château Lynch-Bages

Light label condition issue

JS  99   
RP  96   
WS  96   
CT  93.4   
ST  92+    
JR  17.5   

1982 Château Calon-Segur

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

RP  94+    
ST  93   
JR  17   

2005 Château Valandraud

RP  97   
WS  95-100   
ST  94   
6 available
Bid

1986 Vieux Chateau Certan

Base neck fill; label condition issue

WS  93   
RP  92   

2017 Vieux Chateau Certan

Lightly depressed cork

WA  98   
WS  98   
VN  98   
JS  98   
JD  98   
WE  96   
JR  18.5   
2 available
Bid *

2022 Château Giscours

JS  98   
JD  97+    
WA  96   
VN  96   
DE  96   
WS  95   
CT  94   
JR  17   
WS  #1 of 2025   
6 available
Bid

1995 Les Forts de Latour

Light label condition issue

WS  91   

1994 Château d'Yquem

375ml

Lightly elevated cork; light label condition issue

1996 Château d'Yquem

375ml

Heavy label condition issue

DE  *****   
WS  96   
RP  95   
JR  18.5   
3 available
Bid *

1990 Château Pichon-Longueville-Comtesse-de-Lalande

Lightly elevated cork; very top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

WS  94   
JR  18   
DE  ****   
WS  #6 of 1993   

1997 Château Pichon-Longueville-Comtesse-de-Lalande

Lightly depressed cork; light label condition issue

1986 Château Pichon-Longueville Baron

Capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; light signs of past seepage; base neck fill; label condition issue

WS  97   

2004 Château Trotanoy

WS  90+    
ST  90+    
RP  89-90   
4 available
Bid *

2000 Château d'Yquem

375ml

Light label condition issue

WA  90   
JR  17   
3 available
Bid

1986 Cos d'Estournel

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

RP  95   
WS  93   
JR  17   
MB  ***/*   

1975 Château Pichon-Longueville-Comtesse-de-Lalande

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

MB  ****   

2017 Château Clinet

1.5ltr

Light label condition issue

WE  95   
JS  93   
JD  93   
WA  92-94   
JR  16   

2022 Château Giscours

JS  98   
JD  97+    
WA  96   
VN  96   
DE  96   
WS  95   
CT  94   
JR  17   
WS  #1 of 2025   
6 available
Bid *

2022 Château Giscours

JS  98   
JD  97+    
WA  96   
VN  96   
DE  96   
WS  95   
CT  94   
JR  17   
WS  #1 of 2025   
4 available
Bid *