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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.

1973 Château Mouton Rothschild

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

MB  ***   

1982 Château Mouton Rothschild

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

RP  100   
JS  100   
JD  100   
WS  98   
VN  98   
ST  97   
CT  96.6   
JR  18.5   
MB  ****/*   

1985 Château Mouton Rothschild

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

MB  *****   
RP  90   

1993 Château Mouton Rothschild

Lightly elevated cork; light label condition issue

RP  90   
WS  90   

1994 Château Mouton Rothschild

Light label condition issue

RP  91   
WS  91   

1994 Château Mouton Rothschild

Base neck fill; light label condition issue

RP  91   
WS  91   

1994 Château Mouton Rothschild

Light label condition issue

RP  91   
WS  91   

1997 Château Mouton Rothschild

Lightly depressed cork; light label condition issue

RP  90   
ST  90-91   
JR  17   

1998 Château Mouton Rothschild

Light label condition issue

RP  96   
CT  93.6   
ST  92+    
WS  91   
JR  17   

2016 Château Mouton Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

WA  100   
VN  100   
JD  100   
WS  98   
CT  97.4   
JR  18.5+    

2019 Château Mouton Rothschild

VN  99   
JS  99   
WA  98+    
WS  98   
JD  98   
JR  18.5+    

2020 Château Mouton Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

VN  99   
JS  99-100   
WE  99   
JD  97+    

1986 Château Mouton Rothschild

12-bottle Lot, Wood Case

See item details for bottle notes

RP  100   
JS  100   
WS  99   
CT  95.8   
ST  95   
JR  18.5   
MB  **/***   

2000 Carruades de Lafite

WS  93   
RP  90   
JR  16   
DE  ****   

1993 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue

WS  94   

1994 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue

WS  93   
RP  90   

1994 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue

WS  93   
RP  90   

1997 Château Lafite-Rothschild

RP  92   
WS  90   
JR  18   
ST  89-93   

2000 Château Lafite-Rothschild

1.5ltr

WS  100   
WE  99   
RP  98+    
ST  96   
CT  95.8   
JR  18.5   

2009 Château Lafite-Rothschild

6-bottle Lot, Wood Case

JS  100   
RP  99+    
WS  98   
CT  96.6   
VN  96+    
JR  19   

1979 Château Margaux

Capsule condition issue; label condition issue

RP  92   
WS  91   
MB  ***   

1983 Château Margaux

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

WS  98   
RP  96   
ST  95   
JR  18.5   
MB  */***   

1983 Château Margaux

Elevated cork; base neck fill; light label condition issue

WS  98   
RP  96   
ST  95   
JR  18.5   
MB  */***   

1988 Château Margaux

Capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

WS  96   

1988 Château Margaux

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

WS  96