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Haut-Médoc

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.

1983 Château La Lagune

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

WS  91   

1986 Château La Lagune

Light capsule condition issue; top shoulder fill

1986 Château La Lagune

Light capsule condition issue; very top shoulder fill

1988 Château Sociando-Mallet

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

WS  91   

1990 Château Sociando-Mallet

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

WS  96   
RP  92   

1985 Château Chasse-Spleen

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

1981 Château Lanessan

Very top shoulder fill; label condition issue

1982 Château Potensac

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

1982 Château Potensac

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

1980 Château Larose-Trintaudon

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

2005 Château Senejac

Light label condition issue

WS  90   

2005 Château Senejac

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

WS  90   

1985 Château Coufran

Light signs of past seepage; very top shoulder fill

2000 Château Loudenne

Light label condition issue

DE  ***   

1985 Château La Tour-de-By

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

1985 Château La Tour-de-By

Lightly depressed cork; very top shoulder fill

1986 Château La Tour-de-By

Depressed cork; very top shoulder fill

1986 Château La Tour-de-By

Very top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

2007 Château d'Agassac

JR  16   

2009 Château Rollan de By

WS  91   

1989 Château Gressier Grand Poujeaux

Top shoulder fill

2010 Château Moulin de Tricot (Haut-Médoc)

1.5ltr

Base neck fill or better; light label condition issue

2000 Château Micalet Cru Artisan Cuvee Speciale Reserve

1985 Château Anthonic

Very top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

1985 Château La Clare

Very top shoulder fill; light label condition issue