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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.

1973 Château Mouton Rothschild

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

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1973 Château Mouton Rothschild

Capsule condition issue; top shoulder fill; label condition issue; importer label across the front label

MB  ***   

1973 Château Mouton Rothschild

Capsule condition issue; elevated cork; top shoulder fill; label condition issue

MB  ***   

1991 Château Mouton Rothschild

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

MB  ***   

1975 Château Margaux

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

MB  ***   

1987 Château Haut-Brion

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

MB  ***   
5 available
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1987 Château Haut-Brion

Light label condition issue

MB  ***   

1966 Château Pichon-Longueville Baron

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

MB  ***   

1961 Château Brane-Cantenac

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

MB  ***   

2000 Château Lanessan

DE  ***   
6 available
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1982 Château Prieure-Lichine

Capsule condition issue; depressed cork; signs of past seepage; heavy label condition issue

JR  15   

2008 Château Malmaison

JR  15   
36 available
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2009 Château Malmaison

JR  15   
34 available
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2005 Château Greysac

Light label condition issue

JR  15.5   
7 available
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2005 Château Greysac

JR  15.5   
2 available
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1966 Cos d'Estournel

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

MB  ****   

1975 Château Montrose

Very top shoulder fill; label condition issue

MB  ****/*   

1997 Château Potensac

JR  16   

1997 Château Potensac

Lightly depressed cork

JR  16   

2003 Château Bellefont Belcier

Label condition issue

JR  16   

2012 Château Marjosse

WS  87-90   
JR  15.5   
HDV  *   
WB     
36 available
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1999 Château La Fleur Petrus

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

ST  88-90   
6 available
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1999 Château La Fleur Petrus

Light capsule condition issue

ST  88-90   
3 available
Bid *

1999 Château La Fleur Petrus

ST  88-90   

1997 Cos d'Estournel

ST  89-90