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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.

1970 Château Giscours

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

1986 Château Giscours

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

1986 Château Giscours

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

1986 Château Giscours

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

1986 Château Giscours

Top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

1989 Château Giscours

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

WS  92   

2009 Château Giscours

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

JS  95   
RP  94   
WS  93   
ST  91   

2009 Château Giscours

Light label condition issue

JS  95   
RP  94   
WS  93   
ST  91   

2010 Château Giscours

JS  95   
WS  94   
WA  92+    
ST  90+    
JR  15.5   

2009 La Sirene de Giscours

2010 Château Malescot-St Exupery

WA  95   
WS  94   
ST  93   

2005 Château Lascombes

WS  93   
ST  89-92   

2005 Château Lascombes

WS  93   
ST  89-92   

1975 Château Brane-Cantenac

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

1982 Château Prieure-Lichine

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

JR  15   

2009 Château Prieure-Lichine

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

RP  93   

1986 Château La Lagune

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

1999 Château La Lagune

Light label condition issue

1999 Château La Lagune

1995 Château LaGrange

Label condition issue

JS  94   
WS  91   
RP  90   
JR  16   

2010 Château LaGrange

Light label condition issue

ST  90+    

2010 Château Langoa-Barton

WS  94   
WA  92   
ST  91   

2019 Château Langoa-Barton

Light label condition issue

WA  94+    
WS  93   

1999 Château Durfort-Vivens

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue