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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.

2015 Château d'Yquem

WA  100   
JS  99   
WS  98   
CT  96.5   

1996 Château d'Yquem

375ml

Label condition issue

DE  *****   
WS  96   
RP  95   
JR  18.5   

1975 Château Climens

Capsule condition issue; signs of past seepage; very top shoulder fill

JR  19.5   

1975 Château Climens

Capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; signs of past seepage; base neck fill

JR  19.5   

1975 Château Climens

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

JR  19.5   

2005 Château d'Yquem

WA  97   
WS  97   
JS  95   
JR  18.5   

2005 Château d'Yquem

Light label condition issue

WA  97   
WS  97   
JS  95   
JR  18.5   

2005 Château Climens

375ml

Label condition issue

RP  97   
WS  95   
ST  94+    
JR  18.5+    

2003 Château Lafaurie-Peyraguey

375ml

Light label condition issue

WS  97   
JS  97   
WA  93   
ST  92   
JR  17   
WS  #6 of 2006   

2003 Château Lafaurie-Peyraguey

Light label condition issue

WS  97   
JS  97   
WA  93   
ST  92   
JR  17   
WS  #6 of 2006   

1983 Château d'Yquem

12-bottle Lot, Wood Case

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RP  96   
CT  95.3   
WS  92   
JR  18.5   

2010 Château Climens

Light label condition issue

WS  96   
JS  96   
WA  93+    
JR  17.5   

2002 Château d'Yquem

Light label condition issue

WS  96   
WA  93   
JR  18   

1986 Château Climens

12-bottle Lot, Wood Case

Light label condition issue; Light case condition issue

RP  96   
WS  94   
JR  18   

2003 Château Suduiraut

375ml

Light label condition issue

RP  95   
WS  93   
ST  92   
JR  18   

2003 Château Suduiraut

Light label condition issue

RP  95   
WS  93   
ST  92   
JR  18   

2003 Château Suduiraut

Light capsule condition issue; signs of past seepage; light label condition issue

RP  95   
WS  93   
ST  92   
JR  18   

2003 Château Suduiraut

Light capsule condition issue; signs of past seepage; label condition issue

RP  95   
WS  93   
ST  92   
JR  18   

2003 Château Suduiraut

Label condition issue

RP  95   
WS  93   
ST  92   
JR  18   

2007 Château Sigalas-Rabaud

Light label condition issue

VN  95   
WE  94   
WS  93   
WA  92   
JR  17   

2005 Château Lafaurie-Peyraguey

375ml

Light capsule condition issue; label condition issue

JS  95   
WS  92   
WA  91   

2005 Château Lafaurie-Peyraguey

Light label condition issue

JS  95   
WS  92   
WA  91   

1967 Château Suduiraut

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

WA  94   
VN  93   

1983 Château Rieussec

Light capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; light label condition issue

WS  94   
RP  92   
JR  18   

1983 Château Rieussec

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

WS  94   
RP  92   
JR  18