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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 Baron

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

MB  ***   

1970 Château Lynch-Bages

Capsule condition issue; signs of past seepage; base neck fill; light label condition issue

WS  92   
RP  91   

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   

1983 Château Leoville-Barton

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

WS  90   

1986 Château Pape-Clement

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

WS  92   
WA  90   

1986 Château Gruaud-Larose

Top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

RP  96   
JR  17.5   
DE  ****   

1986 Château Beychevelle

Capsule condition issue; top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

WS  93   
RP  92   

1986 Château Talbot

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

RP  96   
WS  91   
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 *

1989 Château Talbot

Very top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

DE  ***   

1990 Château Duhart-Milon-Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue

WS  91   
RP  90   
2 available
Bid *

1990 Château Canon

Light capsule condition issue; base neck fill

WA  93   
WS  91   
3 available
Bid

1990 Château La Lagune

Light label condition issue

WS  94   
RP  91   

1990 Château LaGrange

WS  95   
RP  94   
ST  93   
JR  18+    

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 *

1995 Cos d'Estournel

Lightly elevated cork; light label condition issue

RP  95   
WS  94   
ST  92+    
MB  ***/*   
2 available
Bid *

1995 Château Lynch-Bages

WA  94   
WS  94   
JR  17+    
3 available
Bid

1996 Château Lynch-Bages

RP  92   
WS  92   
ST  90   
JR  17   
2 available
Bid *

1996 Château Lynch-Bages

Light label condition issue

RP  92   
WS  92   
ST  90   
JR  17