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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.

2003 Le Marquis de Calon Segur

Light label condition issue

1995 Château Rauzan-Segla "Segla"

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

2018 Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste

Light label condition issue

VN  96   
WS  95   
JS  94   
WA  93   
JR  16+    

2000 Château La Petite Eglise

WS  90   

2005 Château Cantemerle

WS  89-91   

1995 Château Prieure-Lichine

Base neck fill; light label condition issue

WS  90   

1995 Château Prieure-Lichine

Light label condition issue

WS  90   

1986 Château Meyney

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

RP  90   
WS  90   

1986 Château Meyney

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

RP  90   
WS  90   

1986 Château Meyney

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

RP  90   
WS  90   

1986 Château Meyney

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

RP  90   
WS  90   

1986 Château Meyney

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

RP  90   
WS  90   

1986 Château Meyney

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

RP  90   
WS  90   

1986 Château Meyney

Signs of past seepage; top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

RP  90   
WS  90   

1987 Château Meyney

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

2004 Château Meyney

Light label condition issue

WS  90   

2016 Château Kirwan

WE  95   
DE  94   
JS  92   
VN  91   
CT  91.3   
WS  90   
JD  90   
JR  16   

2017 Château Kirwan

2018 Château Kirwan

WE  96   
WS  94   
JS  94   
WA  92   
VN  92   
JR  15   

2005 Château Faugeres

Light label condition issue

RP  95   
WS  93   
ST  90   

1994 Château Batailley

Light capsule condition issue; base neck fill

2009 Château Beau-Sejour Becot

375ml

RP  93-95   
WS  92   
ST  92   
JR  16   

2016 Château Fonplegade

WA  96+    
JS  95   
VN  94   
JD  94   
WS  92   
WE  91   
JR  16   

2001 Château La Tour-Blanche

RP  97   
WS  93   
ST  92+    
JR  17   

2003 Château La Tour-Blanche

375ml

WS  97   
RP  96   
ST  93   
JR  18