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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.

2009 Vieux Chateau Mazerat

Lightly elevated cork; light label condition issue

RP  97   
WS  91   
ST  91   
JR  15.5   

2006 The Winemakers' Collection Cuvee No. 2 Denis Dubourdieu

RP  91   

2016 Sol Beni Coup du Chapeau

Light label condition issue

JD  97   

2016 Rarecat St. Emilion

Lightly elevated cork

1967 Petrus

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

RP  92   

1979 Petrus

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

WS  90   
JR  17   
MB  ****   

1979 Petrus

Light capsule condition issue; base neck fill or better; heavy label condition issue

WS  90   
JR  17   
MB  ****   

1982 Petrus

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

MB  *****   
WA  96   
WS  96   
RP  93   
ST  93   
JR  18+    

2010 Pauillac de Chateau Latour

VN  92   
JR  17   

2010 Pauillac de Chateau Latour

Light label condition issue

VN  92   
JR  17   

2011 Monseigneur de Comty

Light label condition issue

2018 L'Harmonie de Fonbadet

JS  92   

1990 Les Forts de Latour

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

WS  94   
RP  90   

1995 Les Forts de Latour

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

WS  91   

2006 Les Forts de Latour

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

RP  92   
ST  91   

2015 Le Saint-Estephe de Montrose

Light label condition issue

2015 Le Saint-Estephe de Montrose

1997 Le Petit Mouton de Mouton Rothschild

1.5ltr

Light label condition issue

2015 Le Dome

6-bottle Lot, Wood Case

Case condition issue

WA  98+    
WE  98   
JD  97   
JS  95   
VN  92   
JR  15.5   

2016 Le Dome

6-bottle Lot, Wood Case

WE  100   
JD  100   
WA  99   
JS  96   
VN  92   
JR  16.5   

2001 La Clemence

Light label condition issue

WS  92-94   
RP  90   
ST  89-91   

2014 Esprit de Pavie

1.5ltr

JS  90   

2018 Domaines Peyronie Château Pauillac

Light label condition issue

1987 Domaine du Jaugaret

Capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; light label condition issue

2003 Domaine De Chevalier

Base neck fill; light label condition issue

RP  90   
ST  90