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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.

1975 Château Margaux

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

MB  ***   

1979 Château Margaux

1.5ltr

Capsule condition issue; light signs of past seepage; base neck fill; heavy label condition issue

RP  92   
WS  91   
MB  ***   

1985 Château Margaux

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

WA  96   
RP  95   

1986 Château Margaux

Light capsule condition issue; light signs of past seepage; base neck fill; light label condition issue

RP  98   
WS  93   
JR  17+    

1989 Château Margaux

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

WS  97   
RP  90   
JR  17   

1993 Château Margaux

Signs of past seepage; light label condition issue

WS  90   

1995 Château Margaux

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

WS  100   
RP  95   
ST  94+    
JR  18.5   
4 available
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1995 Château Margaux

Light label condition issue

WS  100   
RP  95   
ST  94+    
JR  18.5   

1995 Château Margaux

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

WS  100   
RP  95   
ST  94+    
JR  18.5   

1997 Château Margaux

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

ST  91   
RP  90   
WS  90   
JR  17   

1997 Château Margaux

Light label condition issue

ST  91   
RP  90   
WS  90   
JR  17   

2015 Château Margaux

WA  99   
WS  99   
VN  99   
6 available
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2019 Château Margaux

WS  100   

2019 Château Margaux

Light label condition issue

WS  100   

2015 Château Margaux

6-bottle Lot, Wood Case

WA  99   
WS  99   
VN  99   

2016-2020 Château Margaux

5-bottle Vertical

1984 Carruades de Lafite

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

1984 Carruades de Lafite

Light signs of past seepage; top shoulder fill

1984 Carruades de Lafite

Light capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork

1984 Carruades de Lafite

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

1984 Carruades de Lafite

Light signs of past seepage; very top shoulder fill

2020 Château Haut-Brion, Château Lafite-Rothschild, Château Margaux, Château Mouton Rothschild

4-bottle Horizontal

See item details for bottle notes

2020 Château Haut-Brion, Château Lafite-Rothschild, Château Margaux, Château Mouton Rothschild

4-bottle Horizontal

See item details for bottle notes

1973 Les Forts de Latour

Capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; very top shoulder fill; label condition issue

2006 Les Forts de Latour

Capsule condition issue; label condition issue

RP  92   
ST  91   
3 available
Bid *