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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.

1975 Château Latour

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

WS  93   
RP  90   
MB  ***   

1975 Château Latour

Light capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; base neck fill; light label condition issue

WS  93   
RP  90   
MB  ***   

1975 Château Latour

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

WS  93   
RP  90   
MB  ***   

1975 Château Latour

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

WS  93   
RP  90   
MB  ***   

2020 Château Haut-Brion

Light label condition issue

JD  100   
WA  99   
JS  98   
VN  96   

2006 Château Latour

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

RP  95   
WS  95   
ST  95   
JR  18   

1983 Château Cheval-Blanc

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

MB  *****   
WS  96   
RP  93   
JR  18.5   

1983 Château Cheval-Blanc

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

MB  *****   
WS  96   
RP  93   
JR  18.5   

1983 Château Cheval-Blanc

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

MB  *****   
WS  96   
RP  93   
JR  18.5   

1983 Château Cheval-Blanc

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

MB  *****   
WS  96   
RP  93   
JR  18.5   

1983 Château Cheval-Blanc

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

MB  *****   
WS  96   
RP  93   
JR  18.5   

1973 Château Mouton Rothschild

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

MB  ***   

1973 Château Mouton Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; top shoulder fill; label condition issue; signed by Philippe de Rothschild

MB  ***   

1973 Château Mouton Rothschild

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

MB  ***   

1970 Château Lafite-Rothschild

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

JR  17.5   
MB  ****   

1992 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork

1994 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue

WS  93   
RP  90   

1994 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue

WS  93   
RP  90   

1983 Château Lafite-Rothschild

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

RP  92   
WS  91   
MB  ***   

1983 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Lightly elevated cork; very top shoulder fill

RP  92   
WS  91   
MB  ***   

1988 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Light label condition issue

RP  94   
WS  90   
JR  17.5   

2001 Château Cheval-Blanc

RP  93   
WS  92   
ST  92+    
JR  17.5   

2017 Château Haut-Brion

Light label condition issue

JS  98   
WA  97   
WS  96   
VN  96+    
CT  94.8   
JD  93+    
JR  17.5   

2010 Château Pontet-Canet

1.5ltr

RP  100   
JS  100   
JD  98+    
WS  97   
ST  95+    
CT  95.2   
JR  18   

2021 Château Branaire-Ducru

3-bottle Lot, Wood Case, 1.5ltr

WA  94   
JS  94-95   
DE  94   
VN  92   
JD  90