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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   

2012 Château Pontet-Canet

Light label condition issue

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

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   

2004 Château Leoville-Barton

Light capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; light label condition issue

WE  94   
RP  92+    
WS  91   
ST  91   
JR  17+    

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   

2020 Château Leoville-Barton

Light label condition issue

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

1981 Château Gruaud-Larose

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

WS  91   

1981 Château Gruaud-Larose

Depressed cork; base neck fill; light label condition issue

WS  91   

1983 Château Gruaud-Larose

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

RP  90   
WS  90   
MB  ***   

1986 Château Calon-Segur

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

JR  17   

1986 Château Calon-Segur

Capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

JR  17   

2017 Château Haut-Bailly

VN  95   
JS  95   
WE  95   
WA  94-96   
JD  94   
WS  93   
JR  17+    

2016 Château Pavie-Macquin

VN  98   
WA  96   
WE  96   
WS  95   

1989 Château Rieussec

RP  92   
ST  92   

2005 Château Branaire-Ducru

Light label condition issue

ST  94   
RP  93   
WS  92   
CT  91.9   
JR  17.5   

1990 Château Saint-Pierre

Signs of past seepage; top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

RP  90   

1990 Château Saint-Pierre

Signs of past seepage; label condition issue

RP  90   

2000 Château Clerc-Milon

Light label condition issue

RP  92   
WS  91   
ST  91   
CT  91.1   
DE  ****   

2010 Château Clerc-Milon

Light capsule condition issue

RP  94   
WS  94   
JS  94   
ST  92   
JR  17   

2005 Château Fleur Cardinale

RP  94   
WS  93   
ST  92+    
CT  91.9   

1988 Château LaGrange

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

WS  96   

1989 Château LaGrange

Light label condition issue

WS  94   
RP  90   
WS  #19 of 1992   

1989 Château LaGrange

Elevated cork

WS  94   
RP  90   
WS  #19 of 1992