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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.

1966 Château Pichon-Longueville-Comtesse-de-Lalande

Capsule condition issue; mid shoulder fill; label condition issue

WA  91   
MB  ****   

1966 Château Montrose

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

WA  95-96   
MB  ***/**   

1966 Château Montrose

Capsule condition issue; elevated cork; signs of past seepage; very top shoulder fill

WA  95-96   
MB  ***/**   

1966 Château Montrose

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

WA  95-96   
MB  ***/**   

1981 Château Pichon-Longueville-Comtesse-de-Lalande

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

WS  93   

1982 Château Brane-Cantenac

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

WS  90   

1985 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

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

WS  98   
RP  93   

1986 Château Gruaud-Larose

Top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

RP  96   
JR  17.5   
DE  ****   

1988 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

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

WS  95   
RP  92   
MB  */***   

1988 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

Signs of past seepage; top shoulder fill

WS  95   
RP  92   
MB  */***   

1988 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

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

WS  95   
RP  92   
MB  */***   

1988 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

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

WS  95   
RP  92   
MB  */***   

1988 Château Pichon-Longueville-Comtesse-de-Lalande

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

WS  91   
RP  90   
2 available
Bid *

1988 Château Pichon-Longueville-Comtesse-de-Lalande

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

WS  91   
RP  90   

1988 Château Montrose

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

1989 Château Gruaud-Larose

Light label condition issue

WS  91   
JR  16   

1993 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

Light label condition issue

RP  90   

1994 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

Light capsule condition issue

RP  93   
3 available
Bid *

1996 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

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

RP  98   
ST  96+    
WS  92   
JR  18   
4 available
Bid *

1996 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

RP  98   
ST  96+    
WS  92   
JR  18   

1996 Château Leoville-Poyferre

RP  93   
ST  91   
WS  90   
JR  17.5   

1996 Château Leoville-Poyferre

RP  93   
ST  91   
WS  90   
JR  17.5   

1997 Cos d'Estournel

ST  89-90   

1997 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

Light capsule condition issue; label condition issue

RP  90   
WS  90   
ST  90   
JR  16+    

1998 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

RP  93   
WS  93   
ST  92+    
2 available
Bid *