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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 La Tour Haut Brion

Light label condition issue

1985 Château L'Arrosee

Light capsule condition issue; signs of past seepage; base neck fill; label condition issue

RP  93   

2001 Château Rauzan-Gassies

Light label condition issue

2000 Château Olivier

12-bottle Lot, Wood Case

2000 Château Bellevue

Very top shoulder fill

RP  95+    
WS  91   
ST  91   

1981 Château Angludet

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

1981 Château Angludet

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

1983 Château Petit Village

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

1995 Château Petit Village

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

WS  90   

2015 Château Les Ormes-de-Pez

Light capsule condition issue; light signs of past seepage

JR  16   

2017 Château Les Ormes-de-Pez

JD  92   
JS  90   
WE  90   
JR  15   

2015 Château Nenin

JS  97   
WS  93   
JD  93   
WA  92-94   
VN  92   
JR  16   

2016 Château Nenin

JS  96   
JD  94   
WA  93   
WS  93   
VN  93   
JR  16+    

2018 Château Nenin

Light label condition issue

JD  95   
WA  94   
WS  93   
WE  93   
VN  91   
JR  15.5   

2000 Château Reignac

RP  92   

2001 Château Reignac

Light label condition issue

RP  90   

2016 Château Feytit-Clinet

JD  98   
WA  95+    
JS  95   
VN  94   
WE  93   
JR  17   

2009 Château Rol Valentin

WS  93   
RP  87-90   

1986 Château Mouton Baronne Philippe Hommage a Pauline

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

WS  93   
JR  17   

1981 Château Carbonnieux

Light capsule condition issue; depressed cork; light label condition issue

1982 Château Laroque

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

2018 Château Laforge

Elevated cork; light label condition issue

JD  95   
JS  93   
CT  91.6   
WA  91   
VN  91   

1993 Château Haut-Beausejour

Light capsule condition issue; label condition issue

1997 Château Haut-Beausejour

12-bottle Lot, Wood Case

See item details for bottle notes; Case condition issue

1979 Château Greysac

Lightly depressed cork; light label condition issue