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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.

2009 Vieux Chateau Mazerat

Lightly elevated cork; light label condition issue

RP  97   
WS  91   
ST  91   
JR  15.5   

2008 Providence

RP  93   
WS  91   

2010 La Dame de Montrose

WE  93   
WA  91+    
WS  91   

2010 La Dame de Montrose

Light label condition issue

WE  93   
WA  91+    
WS  91   

2015 La Croix de Beaucaillou

WA  91-93   

1987 Domaine du Jaugaret

Capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; light label condition issue

1984 Château Talbot

Capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; base neck fill; label condition issue

1998 Château Suduiraut

Light label condition issue

WA  93   
ST  91+    

2001 Château Suduiraut

RP  98   
WS  98   
ST  95   
WA  94   
JR  17   
WS  #9 of 2004   

2001 Château Suduiraut

Light label condition issue

RP  98   
WS  98   
ST  95   
WA  94   
JR  17   
WS  #9 of 2004   

1986 Château Sociando-Mallet

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

WS  94   

1986 Château Sociando-Mallet

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

WS  94   

1987 Château Sociando-Mallet

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

1987 Château Sociando-Mallet

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

1987 Château Sociando-Mallet

Light capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; mid shoulder fill; label condition issue

2003 Château Sociando-Mallet

Light label condition issue

WS  92   
ST  91   
RP  90   

2009 Château Prieure-Lichine

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

RP  93   

2006 Château Pichon-Longueville-Comtesse-de-Lalande

375ml

RP  95   
ST  93   
WS  92   
JR  17.5   

2019 Château Pape-Clement

WA  94   
WS  94   

2009 Château Monbousquet

WS  94   
RP  93   
ST  92   
JR  15   

2008 Château Malescot-St Exupery

Light label condition issue

RP  93   
WS  90-93   
JR  18   

1985 Château Malartic-Lagraviere

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

1985 Château Malartic-Lagraviere

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

1994 Château Lascombes

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

1983 Château L'Arrosee

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