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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 Meyney

Light label condition issue

RP  90   
WS  90   

1986 Château Meyney

Lightly depressed cork; signs of past seepage; very top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

RP  90   
WS  90   

2019 Château Phelan-Segur

Light label condition issue

JS  96   
VN  95   
JD  95   
WA  94+    
WS  94   
JR  16.5+    

1989 Château Boyd-Cantenac

Base neck fill; label condition issue

1989 Château Boyd-Cantenac

Label condition issue

1990 Château de Marbuzet

1990 Château de Marbuzet

Light label condition issue

1975 Château Laroque

Light capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; light label condition issue

1990 Château La Tour du Pin Figeac

2019 Château LaGrange

Light label condition issue

WA  95   
VN  95   
WS  93   
JR  17.5   

2019 Château LaGrange

WA  95   
VN  95   
WS  93   
JR  17.5   

2016 Château Sociando-Mallet

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

JS  94   
WA  92-94   
JD  92   
VN  91+    
JR  16   

1996 Château Haut-Goujon

Light label condition issue

2020 Château Grand-Puy-Ducasse

JS  96   
JD  95   
WS  94   
VN  94   
DE  93   
CT  91.8   
JR  17   

1970 Château Cissac

Elevated cork; light label condition issue

2007 Château Malescot-St Exupery

Lightly elevated cork

WS  90   
ST  88-90   

2015 Château Rouget

JS  94   
WA  92+    
JD  91   
VN  90   
JR  16   

2020 Château LaTour-Martillac

WE  95   
JS  94   
JD  94   
DE  93   
WA  92   
VN  92   
WS  91   
JR  16.5   

1989 Château Les Ormes-de-Pez

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

WS  90   

1989 Château Les Ormes-de-Pez

Light label condition issue

WS  90   

1989 Château Les Ormes-de-Pez

Signs of past seepage; light label condition issue

WS  90   

1989 Château Les Ormes-de-Pez

Lightly elevated cork; signs of past seepage; light label condition issue

WS  90   

1989 Château Les Ormes-de-Pez

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

WS  90   

1989 Château Les Ormes-de-Pez

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

WS  90   

1989 Château Les Ormes-de-Pez

Light capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; light label condition issue

WS  90