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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.

1989 Château Talbot

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

DE  ***   

1981 Château Rieussec

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

WS  90   
MB  ***   

1983 Château Gruaud-Larose

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

RP  90   
WS  90   
MB  ***   

1985 Château Gruaud-Larose

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

RP  90   
MB  ****   
DE  ****   

1985 Château Gruaud-Larose

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

RP  90   
MB  ****   
DE  ****   

2011 Château Clerc-Milon

Label condition issue

VN  90+    
RP  89-91+    

2005 Château Roc de Cambes

Light label condition issue

ST  90   
WS  89-91   

2005 Château Roc de Cambes

ST  90   
WS  89-91   

1983 Château Leoville-Barton

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

WS  90   

1983 Château Leoville-Barton

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

WS  90   

1990 Château L'Arrosee

Base neck fill; light label condition issue; light writing on label

RP  90   

1990 Château L'Arrosee

Light label condition issue

RP  90   

1989 Château La Lagune

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

RP  90   
WS  90   

1989 Château La Lagune

Light capsule condition issue

RP  90   
WS  90   

1983 Château Lafaurie-Peyraguey

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

WS  91   
MB  ****   
3 available
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1983 Château Lafaurie-Peyraguey

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

WS  91   
MB  ****   

1998 Château Gazin

Base neck fill; light label condition issue

WS  91   
RP  90   

1990 Château Le Bon-Pasteur

Label condition issue

RP  91   
WS  90   

1981 Château Gruaud-Larose

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

WS  91   
5 available
Bid *

1981 Château Gruaud-Larose

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

WS  91   
2 available
Bid *

1983 Château d'Issan

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

WS  91   
2 available
Bid *

1970 Château Chasse-Spleen

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

WA  91   
CT  90.9   

1970 Château Chasse-Spleen

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

WA  91   
CT  90.9   

1989 Château Branaire-Ducru

Light capsule condition issue; base neck fill; light label condition issue; light writing on label

RP  92   
VN  91   
WS  90   

1988 Château Gruaud-Larose

Light label condition issue

WS  92   
2 available
Bid