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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.

1916 Château La Mission Haut Brion

Capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; heavy label condition issue; previously refurbished

2009 Château Mouton Rothschild

1-bottle Lot, Wood Case, 3.0ltr

RP  99+    
WS  98   
JS  98   
VN  97   
JG  93-94   
JR  18   
2 available
Bid *

2000 Château Pichon-Longueville-Comtesse-de-Lalande

12-bottle Lot, Wood Case

RP  96   
WE  96   
WS  95   
ST  94   
JR  17.5   

1982 Château Lafleur

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

RP  100   
WS  99   
ST  98   
JR  19   

1982 Château Lafleur

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

RP  100   
WS  99   
ST  98   
JR  19   

1979 Château Margaux

5.0ltr

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

RP  92   
WS  91   
MB  ***   

2003 Château Montrose

12-bottle Lot, Wood Case

See item details for bottle notes; Light case condition issue

RP  97   
ST  96   
WS  95   
JR  17.5   

2003 Château Montrose

12-bottle Lot, Wood Case

Light capsule condition issue; Light case condition issue

RP  97   
ST  96   
WS  95   
JR  17.5   

1959 Château Lafite-Rothschild

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

MB  *****   
RP  99   
ST  97   
WS  94   
3 available
Bid *

2000 Château Lafite-Rothschild

1.5ltr

Light signs of past seepage; light label condition issue

WS  100   
WE  99   
RP  98+    
ST  96   
JR  18.5   

1979 Château La Mission Haut Brion

6.0ltr

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

2017 Château Ausone

1-bottle Lot, Wood Case, 3.0ltr

Light case condition issue

WA  98   

1967 Petrus

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

RP  92   

1947 Château La Mission Haut Brion

Heavy capsule condition issue; heavy signs of past seepage; mid shoulder fill; label condition issue

RP  95   
WS  95   

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   

2000 Château La Conseillante

6.0ltr

Light signs of past seepage; light label condition issue

RP  96   
WS  90   
ST  90-93   
JR  17.5   

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   

1998 Château Trotanoy

3.0ltr

WS  97   
RP  96   
ST  94+    
JR  15.5   

2019 Château Palmer

6-bottle Lot, Wood Case

JS  99   
VN  98   
WA  96+    
WS  94   
JR  18.5   

1981 Château Margaux

3.0ltr

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

WS  95   
RP  91   

1989 Château Haut-Brion

Light label condition issue

RP  100   
WS  100   
JS  100   
ST  97   
JR  19   
3 available
Bid *

1986 Château Mouton Rothschild

1.5ltr

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

RP  100   
JS  100   
WS  99   
ST  95   
JR  18.5   
MB  **/***   

1979 Petrus

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

WS  90   
JR  17   
MB  ****   

1979 Petrus

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

WS  90   
JR  17   
MB  ****   

2016 Le Dome

6-bottle Lot, Wood Case

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