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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.

2000 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue

WS  100   
WE  99   
RP  98+    
ST  96   
JR  18.5   

2000 Château Haut-Brion

Light label condition issue

RP  99   
ST  96   
WE  96   
WS  94   
JR  18   

2005 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Light label condition issue

JS  100   
WS  98   
JR  19.5   
ST  97   
RP  96   

2000 Château Haut-Brion

Light label condition issue

RP  99   
ST  96   
WE  96   
WS  94   
JR  18   

1982 Château Mouton Rothschild

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

RP  100   
JS  100   
JD  100   
WS  98   
VN  98   
ST  97   
JR  18.5   
MB  ****/*   

1982 Château Mouton Rothschild

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

RP  100   
JS  100   
JD  100   
WS  98   
VN  98   
ST  97   
JR  18.5   
MB  ****/*   

1982 Château Mouton Rothschild

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

RP  100   
JS  100   
JD  100   
WS  98   
VN  98   
ST  97   
JR  18.5   
MB  ****/*   

1949 Château La Mission Haut Brion

375ml

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

WS  95   
RP  91   

2017 Château Trotanoy

6-bottle Lot, Wood Case

JS  99   
WA  97+    
WS  97   
VN  95   
WE  95   
JD  95   
JR  17   

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   

2020 Château Ducru-Beaucaillou, Château Leoville-Las-Cases, Château Pichon-Longueville-Comtesse-de-Lalande, Cos d'Estournel

4-bottle Horizontal

1961 Château Lafite-Rothschild

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

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

1982 Château Mouton Rothschild

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

RP  100   
JS  100   
JD  100   
WS  98   
VN  98   
ST  97   
JR  18.5   
MB  ****/*   

1989 Château Lafleur

Very top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

WS  97   
RP  95   
JR  19   
ST  94   

2000 Château Lafite-Rothschild

WS  100   
WE  99   
RP  98+    
ST  96   
JR  18.5   

2020 Château Pichon-Longueville Baron

1-bottle Lot, Wood Case, 6.0ltr

WS  97   
WS  #8 of 2023   

2019 Château Palmer

6-bottle Lot, Wood Case

JS  99   
VN  98   
WA  96+    
WS  94   
JR  18.5   

2016 Le Dome

6-bottle Lot, Wood Case

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

1979 Petrus

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

WS  90   
JR  17   
MB  ****   

1998 Château Trotanoy

3.0ltr

WS  97   
RP  96   
ST  94+    
JR  15.5   

2005 Château Le Gay

6-bottle Lot, Wood Case, 1.5ltr

See item details for bottle notes

RP  95+    
WS  93   
ST  92   
JR  17   

1994 Château Rauzan-Segla

15.0ltr

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

WS  90   

1998 Château Palmer

6.0ltr

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

RP  91   
WS  90   
ST  90-91