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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.

1986 Château Talbot

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

RP  96   
WS  91   
DE  ***   
3 available
Bid *

1986 Château Talbot

Very top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

RP  96   
WS  91   
DE  ***   
2 available
Bid *

1986 Château Talbot

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

RP  96   
WS  91   
DE  ***   

1986 Château Talbot

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

RP  96   
WS  91   
DE  ***   

1986 Château Talbot

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

RP  96   
WS  91   
DE  ***   

1986 Château Talbot

Lightly depressed cork; base neck fill

RP  96   
WS  91   
DE  ***   

1986 Château Talbot

Base neck fill

RP  96   
WS  91   
DE  ***   

1986 Château Talbot

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

RP  96   
WS  91   
DE  ***   

1986 Château Talbot

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

RP  96   
WS  91   
DE  ***   

1986 Château Talbot

Very 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  ***   

1988 Château Talbot

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

WS  90   

1989 Château Talbot

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

DE  ***   

1989 Château Talbot

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

DE  ***   

1989 Château Talbot

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

DE  ***   

1989 Château Talbot

Very top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

DE  ***   

1996 Château Talbot

WS  90   
DE  ****   

2000 Château Talbot

RP  93   
WS  93   
ST  89-91   
JR  17+    
3 available
Bid *

2001 Château Talbot

WS  90   
JR  17   

1982 Château Trotanoy

Very top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

RP  94   
VN  94   
ST  94+    
WS  93   
MB  ****   

1993 Château Trotanoy

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

WS  91   
RP  90   

1996 Château Trotanoy

1997 Château Trotanoy

Light capsule condition issue

ST  88-90   

2000 Château Trotanoy

RP  94   
WS  93   
ST  92+    

2006 Château d'Issan

Light label condition issue

RP  94   
2 available
Bid *