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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.

2010 Château Lynch-Bages

Light label condition issue

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

1988 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

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

WS  95   
RP  92   
MB  */***   

2005 Château Smith-Haut-Lafitte

RP  98   
JS  95   
WS  93   
ST  93   
JR  17   

1990 Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste

Light capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; light signs of past seepage; light label condition issue

RP  96   
WS  95   
JR  18   
MB  */****   

2003 Château d'Armailhac

3-bottle Lot

Light label condition issue

WS  92-94   
RP  90   

2000 Château Montrose

Light label condition issue

WS  96   
RP  95+    
ST  94   
JR  18   
3 available
Bid *

1979 Château Lynch-Bages

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

MB  ***/*   
9 available
Bid *

1979 Château Lynch-Bages

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

MB  ***/*   

1979 Château Lynch-Bages

Light capsule condition issue; top shoulder fill

MB  ***/*   

1979 Château Lynch-Bages

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

MB  ***/*   

2003 Cos d'Estournel

Mid shoulder fill; light label condition issue

RP  97   
WS  97   
WE  95   
ST  94   
JR  17   

2016 Château Montrose

JD  100   
VN  98   
JS  98   
CT  96.4   
JR  18.5   
2 available
Bid *

1989 Cos d'Estournel

WS  93   
ST  93   
JR  17.5   
19 available
Bid *

1989 Cos d'Estournel

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

WS  93   
ST  93   
JR  17.5   

2003 Cos d'Estournel

Light label condition issue

RP  97   
WS  97   
WE  95   
ST  94   
JR  17   

1986 Château Montrose

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

WS  95   
RP  91   
JR  17.5   
MB  ****   

1981 Château La Tour Haut Brion

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

1986 Château Lynch-Bages

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

WA  94   
VN  94   
CT  92.2   
WS  90   
JR  17.5   
MB  **/**   

1995 Château Lynch-Bages

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

WS  94   
VN  91   
JR  17.5   

1995 Château Lynch-Bages

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

WS  94   
VN  91   
JR  17.5   

1978 Cos d'Estournel

Top shoulder fill

WS  93   
MB  ***   
4 available
Bid *

1978 Cos d'Estournel

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

WS  93   
MB  ***   

1978 Cos d'Estournel

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

WS  93   
MB  ***   

1978 Cos d'Estournel

Top shoulder fill; label condition issue

WS  93   
MB  ***   

1978 Cos d'Estournel

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

WS  93   
MB  ***