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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.

1983 Château Lafaurie-Peyraguey

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

WS  91   
MB  ****   

1983 Château Lafaurie-Peyraguey

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

WS  91   
MB  ****   

1983 Château Lafaurie-Peyraguey

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

WS  91   
MB  ****   

1983 Château Lafaurie-Peyraguey

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

WS  91   
MB  ****   

2002 Château Suduiraut

375ml

Light label condition issue

WS  90   
ST  88-91   

2002 Château Suduiraut

375ml

Signs of past seepage

WS  90   
ST  88-91   

2000 Château d'Yquem

375ml

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

WA  90   
JR  17   

2000 Château d'Yquem

375ml

Label condition issue

WA  90   
JR  17   

1970 Château d'Yquem

375ml

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

RP  90   
JR  17   
MB  ***   

1970 Château d'Yquem

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

RP  90   
JR  17   
MB  ***   

2004 Château Suduiraut

Signs of past seepage; light label condition issue

ST  88-91   

1970 Château Suduiraut

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

MB  ***   

1970 Château Suduiraut

Heavy capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; lightly elevated cork; signs of past seepage; base neck fill; label condition issue

MB  ***   

1970 Château Coutet

Heavy capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; signs of past seepage; top shoulder fill; label condition issue

MB  ***   

1994 Château d'Yquem

375ml

Lightly elevated cork; light label condition issue

2004 Château d'Yquem Ygrec "Y"

Very top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

1982 Château Rieussec

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

1984 Château Rieussec R de Rieussec

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

1971 Château Suduiraut

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

1975 Château Suduiraut

Light label condition issue

1982 Château Suduiraut

375ml

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

1986 Château Suduiraut

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

2000 Château Suduiraut

375ml

2001 Les Cypres de Climens

Signs of past seepage; light label condition issue

2001 Les Cypres de Climens

Label condition issue