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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.

1984 Carruades de Lafite

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

1984 Carruades de Lafite

Light signs of past seepage; top shoulder fill

1984 Carruades de Lafite

Light capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork

1984 Carruades de Lafite

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

1984 Carruades de Lafite

Light signs of past seepage; very top shoulder fill

1986 Château Beychevelle

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

WS  93   
RP  92   

1986 Château Beychevelle

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

WS  93   
RP  92   

2009 Château Beychevelle

JS  96   
RP  93   
WS  92   
ST  91+    

2018 Château Beychevelle

JD  96   
WA  95   
WS  95   
WE  95   
JS  94   
VN  92   
JR  16.5   

2018 Château Beychevelle

Light label condition issue

JD  96   
WA  95   
WS  95   
WE  95   
JS  94   
VN  92   
JR  16.5   

2018 Château Beychevelle

Light label condition issue

JD  96   
WA  95   
WS  95   
WE  95   
JS  94   
VN  92   
JR  16.5   

1982 Château Branaire-Ducru

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

RP  93   

1982 Château Brane-Cantenac

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

WS  90   

1982 Château Brane-Cantenac

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

WS  90   

1995 Château Calon-Segur

WS  96   
WA  95   
RP  92   
ST  91   
JR  18   
DE  ***   

1990 Château Canon

Light label condition issue

WA  93   
WS  91   

2008 Château Clinet

RP  94+    
WS  93   
ST  91   

2020 Château d'Yquem

375ml

VN  97   
WS  95   
WA  94   
JR  17   

2019 Château Figeac

Light capsule condition issue

VN  99   
WE  99   
JS  98   
JD  98   
WA  97   
WS  95   
JR  18.5   

1966 Château Giscours

Depressed cork; light signs of past seepage; base neck fill; heavy label condition issue

2000 Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste

Light label condition issue

RP  94   
WS  92   
ST  92   
JR  17.5   

2001 Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste

Light label condition issue

ST  90   
WS  89-91   

1986 Château Gruaud-Larose

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

RP  96   
JR  17.5   
DE  ****   

1986 Château Gruaud-Larose

Top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

RP  96   
JR  17.5   
DE  ****   

2005 Château Haut-Bailly

Light label condition issue

RP  96+    
WS  95   
JS  95   
ST  92+    
JR  17.5