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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.

2012 Les Pagodes de Cos

WE  92   
JR  16   

2009 La Croix de Beaucaillou

Light label condition issue

RP  91   
WS  91   
VN  87-90   

1971 La Cour Pavillon

Lightly depressed cork; top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

2014 Esprit de Pavie

1.5ltr

JS  90   

2018 Domaines Peyronie Château Pauillac

Light label condition issue

JS  92   
VN  90   

2009 Clos de l'Oratoire

RP  91-93   
ST  91   

1971 Château Voigny

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

2015 Château Tour Saint-Christophe

JS  96   
JD  95   
VN  93   
WA  92+    
WE  90   

1983 Château Suduiraut

375ml

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

MB  ***   

1983 Château Suduiraut

375ml

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

MB  ***   

2005 Château Suduiraut

WS  93   
ST  92   
JR  18   

2003 Château Sociando-Mallet

Light label condition issue

WS  92   
ST  91   
RP  90   

2016 Château Roc de Cambes

WA  93   

2003 Château Rieussec

Base neck fill; light label condition issue

RP  96   
WS  95   
ST  92-95   
JR  17   

2003 Château Rieussec

Light label condition issue

RP  96   
WS  95   
ST  92-95   
JR  17   

2003 Château Rieussec

Light label condition issue

RP  96   
WS  95   
ST  92-95   
JR  17   

1986 Château Rayne-Vigneau

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

WS  91   
RP  90   

2014 Château Prieure-Lichine

VN  94   
JS  93   
WE  93   
WA  90-92   
JD  90   
JR  16.5   

1994 Château Phelan-Segur

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

1982 Château Olivier

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

WS  90   

1982 Château Olivier

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

WS  90   

1982 Château Olivier

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

WS  90   

1989 Château Olivier

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

1999 Château Nenin

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

WS  90   

1999 Château Nenin

WS  90