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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.

1971 Château Margaux

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

France Direct
Expected Arrival:
10 weeks from purchase date
MB  ***   

1971 Château Margaux

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

France Direct
Expected Arrival:
10 weeks from purchase date
MB  ***   

1987 Château Haut-Brion

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

MB  ***   
5 available
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1987 Château Haut-Brion

Light label condition issue

MB  ***   

1987 Château Haut-Brion

MB  ***   

1966 Château Pichon-Longueville Baron

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

MB  ***   

1966 Château Pichon-Longueville Baron

Capsule condition issue; top shoulder fill; label condition issue

MB  ***   

1966 Château Pichon-Longueville Baron

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

MB  ***   

1966 Château Pichon-Longueville Baron

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

MB  ***   

1982 Château Lascombes

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

France Direct
Expected Arrival:
10 weeks from purchase date
MB  ***   

1982 Château Prieure-Lichine

Capsule condition issue; signs of past seepage; light label condition issue

JR  15   
4 available
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1982 Château Prieure-Lichine

Capsule condition issue; depressed cork; signs of past seepage; heavy label condition issue

JR  15   

2008 Château Malmaison

JR  15   
36 available
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2009 Château Malmaison

JR  15   
36 available
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1966 Château d'Yquem

Capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; signs of past seepage; top shoulder fill; label condition issue; writing on label

MB  ****   

1961 Château Pichon-Longueville Baron

Light capsule condition issue; mid shoulder fill; label condition issue

MB  ****   

1978 Château Talbot

Capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

MB  ****   

1953 Château Ausone

Heavy capsule condition issue; mid shoulder fill; label condition issue

MB  ****   

1996 Château Poujeaux

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

JR  16   
2 available
Bid *

2000 Château Bernadotte

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

DE  ****   

2010 Brio De Cantenac Brown

JR  16.5   

2009 Château La Tour de Bessan

JR  17   
4 available
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2009 Château La Tour de Bessan

Light label condition issue

JR  17   
3 available
Bid *

2012 Château Marjosse

WS  87-90   
JR  15.5   
HDV  *   
WB     
36 available
Bid *

1997 Cos d'Estournel

ST  89-90