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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.

1988 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

Capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; mid shoulder fill; label condition issue

WS  95   
RP  92   
MB  */***   
2 available
Bid *

1988 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

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

WS  95   
RP  92   
MB  */***   
2 available
Bid *

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

WS  95   
RP  92   
MB  */***   

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   

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; label condition issue

WS  91   
RP  90   

1988 Château Montrose

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

1986 Château Gruaud-Larose

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

RP  96   
JR  17.5   
DE  ****   
2 available
Bid *

1986 Château Gruaud-Larose

Top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

RP  96   
JR  17.5   
DE  ****   

1983 Château Canon

Light capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; base neck fill; label condition issue

RP  90   

1983 Château Canon

Light capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; base neck fill; label condition issue

RP  90   

1985 Château Trotanoy

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

1982 Château Beau-Sejour Becot

1.5ltr

Light label condition issue

WS  92   
JR  15.5