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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.

2005 Château du Tertre

375ml

JS  92   
RP  90   
ST  88-91   
JR  16   

2000 Château Reignac

RP  92   

1973 Château Moncets

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

2005 Château du Tertre

375ml

Light label condition issue

JS  92   
RP  90   
ST  88-91   
JR  16   

2004 Lucia (Saint-Emilion)

Light label condition issue

RP  92-94   
ST  90   

1993 Barons de Lafite Rothschild Reserve Speciale Pauillac

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

1994 Château de Pez

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

1994 Château de Pez

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

2013 Château Haut-Maillet

Light label condition issue

1999 Château De Lescours

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

2001 Château La Peyre "R"

Base neck fill; light label condition issue

1990 Château d'Arveyres Rouge

Lightly elevated cork; signs of past seepage; light label condition issue

1982 Château Les Videaux

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

1982 Château Les Videaux

Light capsule condition issue; signs of past seepage; base neck fill; light label condition issue

1995 Barons de Lafite Rothschild Reserve Speciale Medoc

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

1995 Barons de Lafite Rothschild Reserve Speciale Medoc

Top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

2020 Château Lilian Ladouys

JS  92   
JD  92   
CT  90.6   
WA  90+    
VN  90+    
JR  16   

2001 Château d'Aiguilhe Cotes de Castillon

Light label condition issue

WS  90   

2001 Château d'Aiguilhe Cotes de Castillon

WS  90   

1997 Château Haut-Beausejour

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

2014 Diane de Belgrave

2005 Château Caronne-Ste-Gemme

Light label condition issue

WS  91   
RP  88-90   

1999 Château d'Arsac

Base neck fill; light label condition issue

2010 Château Cheval Brun

1985 Château Villars

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