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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.

1929 Château d'Yquem

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

VN  100   
WS  97   
JR  19   
6 available
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1975 Château Climens

Capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; signs of past seepage; very top shoulder fill

JR  19.5   
2 available
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1978 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

Capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; signs of past seepage; very top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

WS  94   
CT  90.9   
RP  90   
MB  ****   
5 available
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1978 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

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

WS  94   
CT  90.9   
RP  90   
MB  ****   
2 available
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1978 Château Haut-Bailly

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

CT  90.4   
2 available
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1978 Château Coutet

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

3 available
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1979 Château Ducru-Beaucaillou

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

2 available
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1979 Château Rieussec

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

2 available
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1980 Château Lafite-Rothschild

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

3 available
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1981 Château Margaux

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

WS  95   
CT  92   
RP  91   
4 available
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1981 Château Gruaud-Larose

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

WS  91   
10 available
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1981 Château Le Gay

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

5 available
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1982 Château Lafite-Rothschild

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

RP  97+    
JS  96   
ST  95+    
CT  95.2   
WS  94   
JR  18.5   
MB  ****/*   
4 available
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1982 Pavillon Rouge du Margaux

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

WS  92   
3 available
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1982 Pavillon Rouge du Margaux

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

WS  92   
3 available
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1982 Château La Mission Haut Brion

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

RP  100   
JR  19.5   
JS  97   
CT  95.9   
ST  95   
WS  94   
2 available
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1982 Château Branaire-Ducru

375ml

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

RP  93   
10 available
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1982 Château Branaire-Ducru

375ml

Light capsule condition issue; top shoulder fill

RP  93   
7 available
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1982 Château Branaire-Ducru

375ml

Light capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; top shoulder fill

RP  93   
2 available
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1983 Château Margaux

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

WS  98   
RP  96   
ST  95   
JR  18.5   
MB  */***   
2 available
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1983 Château Gruaud-Larose

RP  90   
WS  90   
MB  ***   
4 available
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1983 Château Gruaud-Larose

Base neck fill

RP  90   
WS  90   
MB  ***   
3 available
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1983 Château Lafaurie-Peyraguey

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

WS  91   
MB  ****   
3 available
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1984 Château Sociando-Mallet

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

2 available
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1985 Château Gruaud-Larose

Very top shoulder fill

RP  90   
MB  ****   
DE  ****   
5 available
Bid *