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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.

1986 Château Lafite-Rothschild

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

RP  100   
WS  94   
MB  ****   

1987 Château Lafite-Rothschild

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

1987 Château Lafite-Rothschild

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

1987 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; base neck fill; label condition issue

1987 Château Lafite-Rothschild

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

1987 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue; light signs of past seepage; heavy label condition issue

1987 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue; signs of past seepage; label condition issue

1987 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Lightly depressed cork; signs of past seepage; base neck fill; light label condition issue

1987 Château Lafite-Rothschild

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

1987 Château Lafite-Rothschild

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

1988 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; label condition issue

RP  94   
WS  90   
JR  17.5   

1989 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue; heavy label condition issue

WS  94   
JR  18.5   
RP  90   
MB  ****/*   

1990 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue; base neck fill

RP  96   
JR  19   
WS  94   

1991 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

1993 Château Lafite-Rothschild

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

WS  94   

1996 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue

RP  100   
ST  96+    
WS  95   
JR  19   

1996 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue

RP  100   
ST  96+    
WS  95   
JR  19   

1996 Château Lafite-Rothschild

1.5ltr

Light capsule condition issue

RP  100   
ST  96+    
WS  95   
JR  19   

1997 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue

RP  92   
WS  90   
JR  18   
ST  89-93   

1997 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

RP  92   
WS  90   
JR  18   
ST  89-93   

1997 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue

RP  92   
WS  90   
JR  18   
ST  89-93   

1998 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

RP  98   
WS  95   
ST  94+    
JR  18   

1999 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Light label condition issue

RP  95   
WS  95   
ST  92   
JR  18   
WS  #13 of 2002   

2000 Château Lafite-Rothschild

WS  100   
WE  99   
RP  98+    
ST  96   
JR  18.5   

2000 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue

WS  100   
WE  99   
RP  98+    
ST  96   
JR  18.5