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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.

1975 Château Haut-Brion

Light label condition issue

RP  94   
WS  90   
MB  ****   

1990 Château Lynch-Bages

RP  99   
WS  95   
ST  93   
JR  17.5   

2017 Château Palmer

JS  98   
WA  97+    
VN  96+    
WE  95   
JD  95+    
JR  17.5   

1986 Château Pichon-Longueville-Comtesse-de-Lalande

Light capsule condition issue; base neck fill

DE  *****   
WS  97   
RP  96   

1990 Château Pichon-Longueville Baron

Base neck fill; light label condition issue

DE  *****   
RP  97   
WS  94   
ST  93+    
JR  18   

2003 Château Haut-Brion

375ml

Light label condition issue

WS  96   
RP  95   
ST  94   
JR  17   

2000 Château Lynch-Bages

RP  97   
WS  96   
WE  95   
ST  92   
JR  17.5   

2020 Cos d'Estournel

WA  94   
WS  94   

1995 Cos d'Estournel

RP  95   
WS  94   
ST  92+    
MB  ***/*   

1986 Château Pichon-Longueville Baron

Lightly depressed cork; label condition issue

WS  97   

1989 Château Ducru-Beaucaillou

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

WS  91   

2006 Château Pichon-Longueville-Comtesse-de-Lalande

RP  95   
ST  93   
WS  92   
JR  17.5   

1997 Cos d'Estournel

ST  89-90   

2005 Château Joanin Becot

1.5ltr

RP  90   
ST  89-91