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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.

1979 Château Mouton Rothschild

3.0ltr

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

WS  96   

1981 Château Mouton Rothschild

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

WS  91   
MB  ***   

1996 Château Mouton Rothschild

Label condition issue

WS  96   
VN  96   
RP  94   
JR  18   

1996 Château Mouton Rothschild

3.0ltr

Light label condition issue

WS  96   
VN  96   
RP  94   
JR  18   

2004 Château Mouton Rothschild

WS  93   
RP  92+    
ST  92   
JR  18   

2006 Château Mouton Rothschild

1.5ltr

Light capsule condition issue

RP  98+    
ST  96+    
JS  95   
WS  94   
JR  18   

2010 Château Mouton Rothschild

JS  100   
RP  98+    
WS  98   
VN  97+    
JR  18.5   

2002 Carruades de Lafite

12-bottle Lot, Wood Case

Case condition issue

JR  16   

2015 Carruades de Lafite

6-bottle Lot, Wood Case

Light case condition issue

WA  91   
WS  91   

1975 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

WA  93   
MB  ***   

1975 Château Lafite-Rothschild

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

WA  93   
MB  ***   

1978 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Top shoulder fill; label condition issue; light writing on label

WS  94   
JR  17   
MB  ***   

1978 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Very top shoulder fill; light writing on label

WS  94   
JR  17   
MB  ***   

1978 Château Lafite-Rothschild

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

WS  94   
JR  17   
MB  ***   

1979 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

WS  92   
CT  92.4   
JG  90   
MB  ***   

1981 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

RP  91   
MB  ***   

2002 Château Lafite-Rothschild

WS  95   
RP  94   
ST  92+    
JR  17.5   

2009 Château Lafite-Rothschild

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

2012 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue

WE  96   
JS  95   
WS  94   
VN  93   
JR  18.5   

2015 Château Lafite-Rothschild

WA  96+    
WS  95   

2019 Château Lafite-Rothschild

WA  100   
WS  98   

2020 Château Lafite-Rothschild

JD  100   
JS  99-100   
VN  98   
JR  17   

2021 Château Lafite-Rothschild

WE  98   
JS  97   
DE  97   
WA  96+    
VN  95   
JD  94   
JR  17.5+    

1986 Château Margaux

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

RP  98   
WS  93   
JR  17+    

2000 Château Margaux

12-bottle Lot, Wood Case

See item details for bottle notes

RP  100   
WS  100   
ST  98   
CT  97.1   
JR  18+