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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.

1976 Château Latour

Light capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

1978 Château Latour

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

WS  92   
RP  90   
JR  17.5   

1978 Château Latour

Light capsule condition issue; depressed cork; top shoulder fill; label condition issue

WS  92   
RP  90   
JR  17.5   

1978 Château Latour

Light capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; very top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

WS  92   
RP  90   
JR  17.5   

1986 Château Latour

Base neck fill; light label condition issue

RP  90   
WS  90   

1978 Château Margaux

Capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; top shoulder fill; heavy label condition issue

RP  93   
WS  92   
MB  ***   

1995 Château Margaux

Light label condition issue

WS  100   
RP  95   
ST  94+    
JR  18.5   

2019 Château Margaux

WS  100   

1978 Château Haut-Brion

Light capsule condition issue; 3 cm ullage; label condition issue

RP  90   
WS  90   

1985 Château Haut-Brion

Light label condition issue

RP  96   
WS  93   

2002 Château Haut-Brion

Light label condition issue

WS  93   
ST  92+    
JR  17.5+    

1970 Château Haut-Brion Blanc

Capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; 3.5 cm ullage; heavy label condition issue; back label missing

1980 Château Haut-Brion Blanc

Light capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; 3.5 cm ullage; label condition issue

2018 Cos d'Estournel

WA  98+    
JS  98   
JD  98+    
WS  96   
VN  96   
WE  96   
JR  17.5   

1967 Château Cheval-Blanc

Capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; top shoulder fill; label condition issue

1967 Château Cheval-Blanc

Light capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; top shoulder fill; label condition issue

1978 Château Cheval-Blanc

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

MB  ****   
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1978 Château Cheval-Blanc

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

MB  ****   

1979 Château Cheval-Blanc

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

MB  ****   

1980 Château Cheval-Blanc

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

1981 Château Cheval-Blanc

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

RP  90   
WS  90   
MB  ****   

1998 Château Cheval-Blanc

Light capsule condition issue; base neck fill

WS  98   
RP  96+    
ST  95+    
JR  19   

2001 Château Cheval-Blanc

RP  93   
WS  92   
ST  92+    
JR  17.5   

2004 Château Cheval-Blanc

Light label condition issue

WE  96   
JR  19   
WS  94   
WA  92   
ST  90+    

2000 Château Lynch-Bages

Light capsule condition issue

RP  97   
WS  96   
WE  95   
ST  92   
JR  17.5