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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.

1988 Château Mouton Rothschild

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

JS  93   
WS  92   
JR  17+    
MB  ***/*   

1988 Château Mouton Rothschild

Base neck fill; light label condition issue

JS  93   
WS  92   
JR  17+    
MB  ***/*   

1988 Château Mouton Rothschild

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

JS  93   
WS  92   
JR  17+    
MB  ***/*   

1988 Château Mouton Rothschild

Lightly elevated cork; light label condition issue

JS  93   
WS  92   
JR  17+    
MB  ***/*   

1988 Château Mouton Rothschild

Depressed cork

JS  93   
WS  92   
JR  17+    
MB  ***/*   

1988 Château Mouton Rothschild

Top shoulder fill

JS  93   
WS  92   
JR  17+    
MB  ***/*   

1988 Château Mouton Rothschild

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

JS  93   
WS  92   
JR  17+    
MB  ***/*   

1988 Château Mouton Rothschild

Very top shoulder fill

JS  93   
WS  92   
JR  17+    
MB  ***/*   

1981 Château Haut-Brion

Capsule condition issue; label condition issue

CT  90.3   
MB  ***/*   

1981 Château Haut-Brion

Capsule condition issue; light signs of past seepage; label condition issue

CT  90.3   
MB  ***/*   

1983 Château Latour

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

JR  19   
WS  94   
MB  ****   

1983 Château Latour

Light capsule condition issue; very top shoulder fill

JR  19   
WS  94   
MB  ****   

1983 Château Latour

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

JR  19   
WS  94   
MB  ****   

1989 Château d'Yquem

RP  97   
WS  97   
ST  97   
JR  19   
MB  ****/*   

1988 Château Margaux

Light capsule condition issue; signs of past seepage

WS  96   

1999 Château Margaux

RP  94   
WS  93   
ST  93   
JR  17.5+    
4 available
Bid *

1999 Château Margaux

Light label condition issue

RP  94   
WS  93   
ST  93   
JR  17.5+    

1988 Château d'Yquem

RP  99   
JR  19.5   
WS  94   

1996 Château Ausone

Light label condition issue

RP  93   
ST  93   
WS  92   
JR  17.5   
3 available
Bid *

1988 Château Mouton Rothschild

Depressed cork; light signs of past seepage; light label condition issue

JS  93   
WS  92   
JR  17+    
MB  ***/*   

1988 Château Mouton Rothschild

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

JS  93   
WS  92   
JR  17+    
MB  ***/*   

1981 Château Margaux

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

WS  95   
CT  92   
RP  91   
3 available
Bid *

1981 Château Margaux

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

WS  95   
CT  92   
RP  91   

1981 Château Margaux

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

WS  95   
CT  92   
RP  91   

1981 Château Margaux

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

WS  95   
CT  92   
RP  91