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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.

1916 Château La Mission Haut Brion

Capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; heavy label condition issue; previously refurbished

1939 Château d'Yquem

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

JR  19   
MB  ****   

1947 Château La Mission Haut Brion

Heavy capsule condition issue; heavy signs of past seepage; mid shoulder fill; label condition issue

RP  95   
WS  95   

1949 Château La Mission Haut Brion

375ml

Capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; mid shoulder fill; light label condition issue

WS  95   
RP  91   

1955 Château Latour

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

MB  *****   
RP  94   
WS  94   

1955 Château Latour

Heavy capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; signs of past seepage; low shoulder fill; light label condition issue

MB  *****   
RP  94   
WS  94   

1955 Château Latour

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

MB  *****   
RP  94   
WS  94   

1958 Château Mouton Rothschild

Capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; mid shoulder fill; label condition issue

1959 Château Haut-Brion

Capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; 4.5 cm ullage; label condition issue

JR  20   
MB  *****   
WS  98   
RP  93   
ST  93   
CC  17.5   

1959 Château Sigalas-Rabaud

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

1961 Château Lafite-Rothschild

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

MB  *****   
WS  94   
VN  91   
JS  90   

1961 Château Rieussec

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

1961 Château Talbot

375ml

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

MB  *****   

1961 Château Talbot

375ml

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

MB  *****   

1961 Château Grand-Puy-Ducasse

Capsule condition issue; mid shoulder fill; label condition issue

1962 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

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

MB  *****   

1963 Château Latour

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

1963 Château Latour

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

1964 Château Mouton Rothschild

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

1966 Château Lafite-Rothschild

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

WA  96   
VN  94   
MB  ****   

1966 Château Latour

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

MB  *****   
RP  96   
WS  92   

1966 Château Margaux

Capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; top shoulder fill

WA  91   
WS  90   
MB  ****   

1966 Château d'Yquem

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

MB  ****   

1966 Château Pichon-Longueville-Comtesse-de-Lalande

Capsule condition issue; mid shoulder fill; label condition issue

WA  91   
MB  ****   

1966 Château Pichon-Longueville Baron

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

MB  ***