Sign In

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.

2015 Château Malartic-Lagraviere

VN  96   
JS  96   
WE  96   
WA  92   
WS  92   
JD  92   
JR  17   

2009 Château Malartic-Lagraviere (Blanc)

12-bottle Lot, Wood Case

Light case condition issue

RP  95   
WS  91   

2016 Château Malartic-Lagraviere Réserve de Malartic

JS  92   

2014 Vieux Chateau Mazerat

WE  95   
WA  93   
VN  91-94   
JS  91   
2 available
Bid *

1989 Château Pavie-Decesse

Lightly depressed cork; light signs of past seepage; light label condition issue

WS  91   

1989 Château Pavie-Decesse

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

WS  91   

2000 Château Pavie-Decesse

RP  96   
WS  94   
ST  93   
3 available
Bid *

2001 Château Pavie-Decesse

Light label condition issue

RP  95   
WS  93   

2010 Château Cantenac-Brown

WE  95   
RP  94+    
VN  94   
WS  92   
ST  90+    
JR  16   

2020 Château Cantenac-Brown

VN  97   
JD  96   
JS  95   
WA  94+    
WS  94   
JR  17   

2005 Château La Confession

RP  95   
2 available
Bid *

2006 Château La Confession

Capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

RP  91   
WS  90   
JR  17   

2010 Château La Confession

RP  93   
ST  91   
WS  90-93   

1979 Château Chasse-Spleen

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

6 available
Bid *

1979 Château Chasse-Spleen

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

4 available
Bid *

1979 Château Chasse-Spleen

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

1989 Château Chasse-Spleen

Light label condition issue

WS  95   
RP  91   
MB  ***   
3 available
Bid *

1989 Château Chasse-Spleen

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

WS  95   
RP  91   
MB  ***   

1993 Château Phelan-Segur

Light label condition issue

1995 Château La Croix de Gay

Lightly elevated cork; light label condition issue

3 available
Bid *

1995 Château La Croix de Gay

Light label condition issue

2 available
Bid *

1995 Château La Croix de Gay

1979 Château Batailley

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

5 available
Bid *

1979 Château Batailley

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

3 available
Bid *

1979 Château Batailley

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