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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.

1979 Château Romefort

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

1986 Chateau Roc du Prieur

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

1986 Chateau Tastin

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

1986 Chateau Tastin

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

1987 Château Guiraud-Cheval-Blanc

Capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; very top shoulder fill; label condition issue

1990 Barons de Lafite Rothschild Reserve Speciale Pauillac

Base neck fill; light label condition issue

1990 Barons de Lafite Rothschild Reserve Speciale Pauillac

Top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

1990 Barons de Lafite Rothschild Reserve Speciale Pauillac

Lightly depressed cork; light label condition issue

1990 Barons de Lafite Rothschild Reserve Speciale Pauillac

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

1990 Barons de Lafite Rothschild Reserve Speciale Pauillac

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

1990 Château Moulin-Pey-Labrie

1990 Chateau Prince Noir

Lightly elevated cork; label condition issue

1994 Château Segonnes

Very top shoulder fill; label condition issue

1995 Ulysse Cazabonne Margaux

Lightly depressed cork; light label condition issue

1995 Ulysse Cazabonne Margaux

Lightly elevated cork; light label condition issue

1999 Château Puy Blanquet

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

2001 Château Burgrave

2002 Château de Beau-Site Graves

2002 Château De Castegens

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

2003 Château De Carles

Light capsule condition issue; label condition issue

RP  91   
JR  15.5   

2004 Château du Tertre de Cascard

2005 Château Fourcas-Dumont

2005 Château Fourcas-Dumont

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

2006 Château de Gironville

2009 La Sirene de Giscours