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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.

1997 Château Troplong-Mondot

Light signs of past seepage; base neck fill

ST  88-90   

2001 Château Troplong-Mondot

RP  93   
WS  91   
JR  17   

1964 Château Talbot

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

1986 Château Talbot

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

RP  96   
WS  91   
DE  ***   

1986 Château Talbot

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

RP  96   
WS  91   
DE  ***   

1986 Château Talbot

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

RP  96   
WS  91   
DE  ***   

1989 Château Talbot

Light label condition issue

DE  ***   

1989 Château Talbot

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

DE  ***   

1989 Château Talbot

Lightly elevated cork; base neck fill; light label condition issue

DE  ***   

1989 Château Talbot

DE  ***   

1989 Château Talbot

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

DE  ***   

1962 Château Suduiraut

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

MB  ****   

1971 Château Suduiraut

Lightly elevated cork; light signs of past seepage; light label condition issue

1979 Château Suduiraut

375ml

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

WS  92   
MB  ***   

2011 Château Suduiraut

375ml

WS  96   
VN  95   
WA  93-95   

2015 Château Suduiraut

375ml

JD  99   
VN  97   
WA  95-97   

2015 Château Suduiraut

375ml

Light label condition issue

JD  99   
VN  97   
WA  95-97   

2017 Château Suduiraut

JD  98   
VN  97   
JS  97   
WE  95   
WS  94   
WA  93-95   
JR  16+    

1979 Château Sociando-Mallet

Signs of past seepage; base neck fill; light label condition issue

JR  15   

2000 Château Sociando-Mallet

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

RP  92   
WS  91   
ST  91-93   
CT  90.8   
DE  ***   

2003 Château Sociando-Mallet

Lightly depressed cork; light label condition issue

WS  92   
ST  91   
CT  91.2   
RP  90   

2016 Château Sociando-Mallet

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

JS  94   
WA  92-94   
JD  92   
VN  91+    
JR  16   

2005 Château Smith-Haut-Lafitte

RP  98   
JS  95   
WS  93   
ST  93   
JR  17   

2021 Château Smith-Haut-Lafitte

JS  96   
DE  96   
WA  95   
JD  94   
WS  93   
VN  93   
CT  93   
JR  15.5   

1983 Château Siran

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