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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 Margaux

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

RP  98   
WS  93   
JR  17+    

1986 Château Margaux

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

RP  98   
WS  93   
JR  17+    

1988 Château Margaux

WS  96   
2 available
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1988 Château Margaux

Light label condition issue

WS  96   

1993 Château Margaux

Light label condition issue

WS  90   

2000 Château Margaux

Light label condition issue

RP  100   
WS  100   
ST  98   
JR  18+    

2000 Château Haut-Brion

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

RP  99   
ST  96   
WE  96   
WS  94   
JR  18   
2 available
Bid *

2000 Château Haut-Brion

Light label condition issue

RP  99   
ST  96   
WE  96   
WS  94   
JR  18   

2000 Château Haut-Brion

3.0ltr

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

RP  99   
ST  96   
WE  96   
WS  94   
JR  18   

2006 Château Haut-Brion

Light label condition issue

RP  96   
WE  96   
ST  95   
WS  94   
JR  18.5   

1953 Cos d'Estournel

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

MB  *****   
RP  93   
WS  91   
2 available
Bid *

2010 Cos d'Estournel

RP  97+    
WS  95   
ST  94+    
JR  18.5   

2016 Cos d'Estournel

WA  100   
VN  100   
JS  100   
JD  99   
WS  96   
JR  18   
3 available
Bid *

1979 Petrus

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

WS  90   
JR  17   
MB  ****   

1979 Petrus

Light capsule condition issue; base neck fill or better; heavy label condition issue

WS  90   
JR  17   
MB  ****   

1983 Château Cheval-Blanc

Light capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; very top shoulder fill; label condition issue

MB  *****   
WS  96   
RP  93   
JR  18.5   
2 available
Bid

1983 Château Cheval-Blanc

Light capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; base neck fill; light label condition issue

MB  *****   
WS  96   
RP  93   
JR  18.5   

1983 Château Cheval-Blanc

Light capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; very top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

MB  *****   
WS  96   
RP  93   
JR  18.5   

1985 Château Cheval-Blanc

Light capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; base neck fill; label condition issue

JR  19   
ST  93   
RP  92   
WS  92   
2 available
Bid

1985 Château Cheval-Blanc

Light capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; very top shoulder fill; label condition issue

JR  19   
ST  93   
RP  92   
WS  92   

1995 Château Lynch-Bages

Label condition issue

WA  94   
WS  94   
JR  17+    

2000 Château Lynch-Bages

RP  97   
WS  96   
WE  95   
ST  92   
JR  17.5   
4 available
Bid

2009 Château Lynch-Bages

Light label condition issue

RP  98   
JS  97   
WS  96   
VN  93+    
JR  17.5   
WS  #93 of 2012   

2010 Château Lynch-Bages

JS  99   
RP  96   
WS  96   
ST  92+    
JR  17.5   
3 available
Bid *

2015 Château Lynch-Bages

VN  96   
WS  94   
WA  92+