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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.

1986 Château Pichon-Longueville-Comtesse-de-Lalande

Signs of past seepage; base neck fill; label condition issue

DE  *****   
WS  97   
RP  96   

2016 Château Ducru-Beaucaillou

JD  100   
JS  99   
WA  98   
VN  98   
WE  98   
WS  97   
CT  95.4   
JR  17   

2019 Château Trotanoy

JD  100   
JS  98   
DE  98   
WS  97   
VN  96+    
WE  96   
WA  95+    
JR  17.5   

2020 Château Cheval-Blanc

JD  100   
VN  99   
JS  98   
WE  97   
WA  96   
WS  96   
JR  18.5   
3 available
Bid *

2010 Château Pontet-Canet

RP  100   
JS  100   
JD  98+    
WS  97   
ST  95+    
CT  95.2   
JR  18   
9 available
Bid *

2010 Château Pontet-Canet

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

2000 Château Lafite-Rothschild

1.5ltr

Light tissue stained label

WS  100   
WE  99   
RP  98+    
ST  96   
CT  95.8   
JR  18.5   

2000 Château Lafite-Rothschild

1.5ltr

Light label condition issue; tissue stuck to the back of the bottle

WS  100   
WE  99   
RP  98+    
ST  96   
CT  95.8   
JR  18.5   

2000 Château Lafite-Rothschild

1.5ltr

Label condition issue; tissue stained label

WS  100   
WE  99   
RP  98+    
ST  96   
CT  95.8   
JR  18.5   

2000 Château Lafite-Rothschild

1.5ltr

Light label condition issue; light tissue stained label

WS  100   
WE  99   
RP  98+    
ST  96   
CT  95.8   
JR  18.5   

2000 Château Lafite-Rothschild

1.5ltr

Light label condition issue

WS  100   
WE  99   
RP  98+    
ST  96   
CT  95.8   
JR  18.5   

2000 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

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

1982 Château La Mission Haut Brion

Capsule condition issue; signs of past seepage; base neck fill; light label condition issue

RP  100   
JR  19.5   
JS  97   
CT  95.9   
ST  95   
WS  94   
2 available
Bid *

1982 Château La Mission Haut Brion

Light capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; base neck fill

RP  100   
JR  19.5   
JS  97   
CT  95.9   
ST  95   
WS  94   

1982 Château La Mission Haut Brion

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

RP  100   
JR  19.5   
JS  97   
CT  95.9   
ST  95   
WS  94   

1982 Château La Mission Haut Brion

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

RP  100   
JR  19.5   
JS  97   
CT  95.9   
ST  95   
WS  94   

1982 Château La Mission Haut Brion

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

RP  100   
JR  19.5   
JS  97   
CT  95.9   
ST  95   
WS  94   

1982 Château La Mission Haut Brion

Capsule condition issue

RP  100   
JR  19.5   
JS  97   
CT  95.9   
ST  95   
WS  94   

1982 Château La Mission Haut Brion

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

RP  100   
JR  19.5   
JS  97   
CT  95.9   
ST  95   
WS  94   

1982 Château La Mission Haut Brion

Capsule condition issue; signs of past seepage; base neck fill

RP  100   
JR  19.5   
JS  97   
CT  95.9   
ST  95   
WS  94   

2009 Château La Mission Haut Brion

Light capsule condition issue

RP  100   
VN  97   
JS  97   
WE  97   
WS  96   
JR  18   

2009 Château La Mission Haut Brion

1.5ltr

RP  100   
VN  97   
JS  97   
WE  97   
WS  96   
JR  18   

2009 Château La Mission Haut Brion

6-bottle Lot, Wood Case

Light capsule condition issue; Light case condition issue

RP  100   
VN  97   
JS  97   
WE  97   
WS  96   
JR  18   

2009 Château La Mission Haut Brion

6-bottle Lot, Wood Case

See item details for bottle notes; Light case condition issue

RP  100   
VN  97   
JS  97   
WE  97   
WS  96   
JR  18   

2020 Château Smith-Haut-Lafitte

JD  100   
JS  99   
VN  97   
WA  95+    
WS  95   
JR  18