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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.

2011 Château La Vieille-Cure

1.5ltr

RP  90-92   

2012 Château Bellegrave

Light label condition issue

1986 Clos Rene

Top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

WS  94   

1996 Château Haut-Marbuzet

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

ST  91   
WS  90   

2015 Château Grand-Puy-Ducasse

Light label condition issue

VN  91   
WA  90-92   
DE  90   
JR  17   

1998 La Clemence

Base neck fill; light label condition issue

CT  91.1   

2000 La Clemence

Lightly elevated cork

RP  91   

2001 La Clemence

Base neck fill

WS  92-94   
RP  90   
ST  89-91   

1989 Château Boyd-Cantenac

Base neck fill; label condition issue

1988 Château La Cardonne

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

1987 Clos des Jacobins

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

1990 Château Croizet-Bages

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

2000 Château Bourgneuf

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

WS  92   

2005 Château Haut Brisson La Reserve

Light label condition issue

RP  92   

1985 Château Coufran

Light signs of past seepage; very top shoulder fill

1982 Château Belgrave

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

2002 Oriel L'Exception

Label condition issue

WS  91   

2003 Oriel L'Exception

WS  91   

1995 Château La Fleur de Jaugue

Light label condition issue

1988 Château Bel-Air Haut-Medoc

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

1983 Château Cadet-Piola

Capsule condition issue; very top shoulder fill; heavy label condition issue

1985 Château de Marbuzet

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

1990 Château de Marbuzet

1990 Château de Marbuzet

Light label condition issue

1983 Château Bonalgue

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