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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.

1985 Château Lynch-Bages

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

MB  *****   
WS  95   
RP  90   
JR  18   
WS  #1 of 1988   

1989 Château Lynch-Bages

Light label condition issue

DE  *****   
RP  99+    
WS  98   
VN  95   
JR  17.5   

1990 Château Lynch-Bages

RP  99   
WS  95   
ST  93   
JR  17.5   
6 available
Bid *

1990 Château Lynch-Bages

Lightly depressed cork; base neck fill or better

RP  99   
WS  95   
ST  93   
JR  17.5   

1999 Château Lynch-Bages

MB  *****   
RP  90   

2000 Château Lynch-Bages

Label condition issue

RP  97   
WS  96   
WE  95   
CT  93.5   
ST  92   
JR  17.5   

2000 Château Lynch-Bages

Lightly depressed cork; base neck fill; light label condition issue

RP  97   
WS  96   
WE  95   
CT  93.5   
ST  92   
JR  17.5   

2000 Château Lynch-Bages

Light capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork

RP  97   
WS  96   
WE  95   
CT  93.5   
ST  92   
JR  17.5   

2001 Château Lynch-Bages

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

WS  90   
ST  90+    
JR  17   

2003 Château Lynch-Bages

Light label condition issue

WS  92-94   
ST  90   
JR  15.5   
2 available
Bid *

2003 Château Lynch-Bages

WS  92-94   
ST  90   
JR  15.5   
2 available
Bid *

2005 Château Lynch-Bages

JS  96   
WE  96   
WS  93   
VN  93+    
CT  92.7   
RP  92   
JR  18   

2005 Château Lynch-Bages

Light capsule condition issue

JS  96   
WE  96   
WS  93   
VN  93+    
CT  92.7   
RP  92   
JR  18   

2006 Château Lynch-Bages

RP  94   
WS  92   
ST  90   
JR  16   

2009 Château Lynch-Bages

Light label condition issue

RP  98   
JS  97   
WS  96   
CT  93.7   
VN  93+    
JR  17.5   
WS  #93 of 2012   

2018 Château Lynch-Bages

WS  97   
JS  97   
WA  96   
VN  96   
WE  96   
JR  18   

2016 Echo De Lynch Bages

JS  93   
WS  92   
VN  92   
JD  92   
WA  90   
JR  15.5   
6 available
Bid *

1978 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

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

WS  94   
CT  90.9   
RP  90   
MB  ****   

1978 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

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

WS  94   
CT  90.9   
RP  90   
MB  ****   

1988 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

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

WS  95   
RP  92   
MB  */***   

1993 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

Signs of past seepage; light label condition issue

RP  90   

1997 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

Lightly depressed cork; base neck fill

RP  90   
WS  90   
ST  90   
JR  16+    

1997 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

Very top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

RP  90   
WS  90   
ST  90   
JR  16+    

1998 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

Light signs of past seepage; light label condition issue

RP  93   
WS  93   
ST  92+    

2000 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

Light capsule condition issue

WS  100   
MB  *****   
RP  98+    
ST  95+    
CT  95   
JR  18.5   
WS  #5 of 2003