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Haut-Médoc

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.

1978 Château Chasse-Spleen

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

1978 Château Chasse-Spleen

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

1986 Château La Cardonne

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

1986 Château La Cardonne

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

1988 Château Poujeaux

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

1989 Château Fourcas-Hosten

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

2000 Château Cambon la Pelouse

Light label condition issue

1989 Barons Edmond Benjamin de Rothschild Haut-Médoc

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

2006 Château de Gironville

2000 Château Paloumey

12-bottle Lot, Wood Case

See item details for bottle notes; Light case condition issue

2014 Château Bel Air Gloria

2005 Château Fourcas-Dumont

2005 Château Fourcas-Dumont

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

1997 Château Potensac

JR  16   

1997 Château Potensac

Lightly depressed cork

JR  16   

1982 Château Cantemerle

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

ST  90   

2009 Château Lanessan

RP  90-92   

1989 Château Sociando-Mallet

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

RP  90   
WS  90   

1995 Château Sociando-Mallet

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

WS  91   
RP  90   

2015 Château Bel Air Gloria

Light label condition issue

WE  92   
JS  91   
JR  15   

2015 Château Cantemerle

WE  93   
JD  91   
WS  90   
JR  15.5   

2009 Château Senejac

Light label condition issue

RP  93   

2009 Château Sociando-Mallet

JS  94   
RP  90   
VN  89-91   
JR  17   

1986 Château Sociando-Mallet

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

WS  94