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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.

2002 Château Pontet-Canet

Light label condition issue

WS  92-94   
ST  90-92   
4 available
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2002 Château Pontet-Canet

WS  92-94   
ST  90-92   
3 available
Bid *

2004 Château Pontet-Canet

Light label condition issue

WS  93   
WE  93   
CT  91.8   
ST  91+    
RP  90+    
WS  #34 of 2007   

2012 Château Pontet-Canet

Light label condition issue

RP  93   
VN  93+    
JS  93   
CT  92.7   
WS  92   
JR  15.5   

2017 Château Pontet-Canet

Light label condition issue

WA  96   
JS  96   
VN  95   
WS  94   
CT  92.8   
JD  93   
JR  16+    

2019 Château Pontet-Canet

Light label condition issue

WS  94   
WA  93   
2 available
Bid

2019 Château Pontet-Canet

Lightly depressed cork; light label condition issue

WS  94   
WA  93   

1994 Château Leoville-Barton

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

CT  91.4   
RP  90   
WS  90   

1994 Château Leoville-Barton

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

CT  91.4   
RP  90   
WS  90   

1998 Château Leoville-Barton

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

RP  91   
WS  90   
ST  90   
MB  ****   
7 available
Bid *

1998 Château Leoville-Barton

Light capsule condition issue

RP  91   
WS  90   
ST  90   
MB  ****   
2 available
Bid *

2018 Château Leoville-Barton

Light label condition issue

WS  97   
JS  97   
WE  97   
JD  97   
WA  94+    
VN  94   
JR  18   

2018 Château Leoville-Barton

WS  97   
JS  97   
WE  97   
JD  97   
WA  94+    
VN  94   
JR  18   

2019 Château Leoville-Barton

Light label condition issue

WA  97   
WS  96   

2019 Château Leoville-Barton

WA  97   
WS  96   

2020 Château Leoville-Barton

Light label condition issue

JD  97+    
WS  96   
VN  96   
JS  96   
WE  96   
WA  95+    
JR  17.5+    

2020 Château Leoville-Barton

JD  97+    
WS  96   
VN  96   
JS  96   
WE  96   
WA  95+    
JR  17.5+    

2015 Château Leoville-Poyferre

JD  97   
WE  96   
WS  95   
VN  95   
WA  94   
CT  93.4   
JR  18+    
2 available
Bid *

2019 Château Smith-Haut-Lafitte

JS  99   
JD  98   
VN  97   
WA  96   
WE  96   
WS  95   
JR  17+    
2 available
Bid *

2021 Château Smith-Haut-Lafitte

JS  96   
DE  96   
WA  95   
JD  94   
WS  93   
VN  93   
CT  93   
JR  15.5   

2016 Château Pape-Clement

JS  98   
JD  97   
WA  96   
WS  96   
VN  96   
WE  95   
JR  17   
2 available
Bid *

2018 Château Clinet

JD  99   
WA  97+    
JS  96   
VN  95   
WE  95   
JR  16   

2019 Château Clinet

JD  98   
WA  97   
VN  94+    
CT  94.4   
WS  93   
JR  16.5   

1981 Château Gruaud-Larose

Very top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

WS  91   
4 available
Bid *

1981 Château Gruaud-Larose

Depressed cork; base neck fill; light label condition issue

WS  91