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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.

2020 Château Cheval-Blanc

JD  100   
VN  99   
JS  98   
WE  97   
WA  96   
WS  96   
JR  18.5   
2 available
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2021 Château Cheval-Blanc

JS  98   
WA  97   
WE  96   
DE  96   
JD  96   
VN  95   
WS  93   
JR  17+    
5 available
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1988 Le Petit Cheval

Lightly depressed cork; very top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

1982 Petrus

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

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

1992 Petrus

RP  90   

1961 Château d'Yquem

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

MB  ***   

1986 Château d'Yquem

Elevated cork; light signs of past seepage; very top shoulder fill

RP  98   
WS  95   
JR  17.5   

1995 Château d'Yquem

Lightly elevated cork

WA  95   
JR  18.5   
MB  ***/*   

1998 Château d'Yquem

Lightly elevated cork; light label condition issue

ST  95   
RP  91   
JR  18   

1998 Château d'Yquem

Light label condition issue

ST  95   
RP  91   
JR  18   

2001 Château d'Yquem

375ml

Lightly elevated cork

RP  100   
WS  100   
JS  100   
JR  19.5   
CT  97.8   
WS  #10 of 2005   

2001 Château d'Yquem

375ml

Light label condition issue

RP  100   
WS  100   
JS  100   
JR  19.5   
CT  97.8   
WS  #10 of 2005   

2004 Château d'Yquem

WS  95-100   
WA  92   
JR  18.5   

2009 Château d'Yquem

375ml

WA  100   
WS  98   
JS  98   
CT  98   
VN  97-100   
JR  19+    

2009 Château d'Yquem

1.5ltr

WA  100   
WS  98   
JS  98   
CT  98   
VN  97-100   
JR  19+    

2019 Château d'Yquem

375ml

VN  95+    
JR  17   
3 available
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2019 Château d'Yquem

375ml

VN  95+    
JR  17   

2019 Château d'Yquem

VN  95+    
JR  17   

2020 Château d'Yquem

375ml

VN  97   
WS  95   
WA  94   
JR  17   
3 available
Bid *

1970 Château Lynch-Bages

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

WS  92   
RP  91   
7 available
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1970 Château Lynch-Bages

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

WS  92   
RP  91   
3 available
Bid *

1970 Château Lynch-Bages

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

WS  92   
RP  91   
2 available
Bid *

1970 Château Lynch-Bages

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

WS  92   
RP  91   
2 available
Bid *

1970 Château Lynch-Bages

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

WS  92   
RP  91   

1970 Château Lynch-Bages

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

WS  92   
RP  91