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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.

1984 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Very top shoulder fill; label condition issue

JS  94   

1983 Château Mouton Rothschild

Very top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

WS  94   
WA  93   
JS  93   
VN  92   
JR  18   
MB  ****   

1987 Château Mouton Rothschild

Base neck fill; light label condition issue

1989 Château Mouton Rothschild

Lightly depressed cork; very top shoulder fill

WS  91   
RP  90   
VN  90   
JR  18   
MB  ***/**   

1986 Château Latour

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

RP  90   
WS  90   

1987 Château Latour

Very top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

1982 Cos d'Estournel

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

RP  95   
WS  95   
ST  94   
JR  18.5   

1989 Château Lynch-Bages

Lightly elevated cork; very top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

DE  *****   
RP  99+    
WS  98   
VN  95   
JR  17.5   

1989 Château Lynch-Bages

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

DE  *****   
RP  99+    
WS  98   
VN  95   
JR  17.5   

1989 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

Lightly depressed cork; light signs of past seepage; very top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

WS  96   
RP  91   
JR  17   

1982 Château Pichon-Longueville-Comtesse-de-Lalande

Lightly depressed cork; very top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

RP  100   
WS  98   
ST  95   
JR  18.5   

1988 Château Montrose

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

1989 Château Montrose

Light capsule condition issue; top shoulder fill

RP  100   
JS  99   
WS  96   
JR  18   
DE  ****   

1982 Château La Conseillante

Capsule condition issue; top shoulder fill; label condition issue

RP  94   
ST  93   
WS  92   

1982 Château Gruaud-Larose

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

RP  98   
VN  96   
WS  94   
ST  94   
JR  18   
DE  ****   

1985 Château Gruaud-Larose

Lightly depressed cork; very top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

RP  90   
MB  ****   
DE  ****   

1986 Château Gruaud-Larose

Top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

RP  96   
JR  17.5   
DE  ****   

1988 Château Rieussec

375ml

Light label condition issue

RP  94   
WS  94   
ST  90   

1982 Château Cantemerle

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

ST  90   

1982 Château Beau-Sejour Becot

1.5ltr

Light label condition issue

WS  92   
JR  15.5   

1986 Château La Cardonne

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

1986 Château La Cardonne

Light capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; light label condition issue

1981 Château La Grave Trigant de Boisset

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

1981 Château Chauvin

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

1989 Château Fourcas-Hosten

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