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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.

2001 Les Pagodes de Cos

JR  16   

2000 Hauts De Pontet-Canet

Light label condition issue

JR  16   

2015 Le Saint-Estephe de Montrose

Light label condition issue

2000 Les Tourelles de Longueville

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

2004 Château Calon-Segur

375ml

WS  90   
RP  88-90   
JR  17.5   

2015 La Gravette de Certan

Light label condition issue

JS  94   
JD  93   
VN  92   
WA  90   
WS  90   

2014 Château Branaire-Ducru

Light label condition issue

WE  94   
WS  93   
JD  90   

2005 Château Gloria

375ml

Light label condition issue

RP  90   
WS  89-91   
JR  17   

1969 Château Giscours

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

1995 Château Sociando-Mallet

Light capsule condition issue; signs of past seepage; heavy label condition issue

WS  91   
RP  90   

2001 Château Guiraud

Light label condition issue

WS  96   
RP  94   
ST  93+    
WS  #23 of 2004   

1999 Gracia

RP  91   
ST  90-92   

2013 Château Rouget

VN  90-92   
JS  90-91   

1988 Château Le Gay

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

1988 Château Le Gay

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

1987 Château Meyney

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

1987 Château Meyney

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

1987 Château Meyney

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

2010 Brio De Cantenac Brown

JR  16.5   

2008 Château de Fieuzal

Light label condition issue

RP  92   
WS  90   
ST  90   

2010 Château de Fieuzal

RP  91-93+    
ST  91   

2003 Château Malartic-Lagraviere

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

2003 Château Malartic-Lagraviere

Light capsule condition issue

2016 Château Barde-Haut

JD  95+    
JS  94   
WA  93+    
VN  93   
WS  92   
JR  15.5   

2009 Château La Fleur de Bouard

Light label condition issue

RP  91-93   
WS  91   
ST  90