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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.

1993 Cos d'Estournel

1995 Cos d'Estournel

Lightly elevated cork; light label condition issue

RP  95   
WS  94   
ST  92+    
MB  ***/*   
2 available
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1997 Cos d'Estournel

ST  89-90   

2002 Cos d'Estournel

RP  93+    
WS  93   
ST  93   
JR  17   
12 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; lightly depressed cork; base neck fill; label condition issue

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  */***   

1993 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

Light label condition issue

RP  90   

1994 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

Light capsule condition issue

RP  93   
3 available
Bid *

1998 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

RP  93   
WS  93   
ST  92+    
3 available
Bid *

1999 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

WS  94   
ST  92   
RP  91   
JR  17   
DE  ****   
WS  #10 of 2002   
4 available
Bid *

1999 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

WS  94   
ST  92   
RP  91   
JR  17   
DE  ****   
WS  #10 of 2002   

1999 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

Light capsule condition issue; label condition issue

WS  94   
ST  92   
RP  91   
JR  17   
DE  ****   
WS  #10 of 2002   

1999 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

WS  94   
ST  92   
RP  91   
JR  17   
DE  ****   
WS  #10 of 2002   

2017 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

Light label condition issue

JS  98   
VN  97+    
WA  96   
WS  96   
WE  96   
JR  17   
2 available
Bid *

1981 Château Pichon-Longueville-Comtesse-de-Lalande

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

WS  93   

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 *

2009 Château Pichon-Longueville-Comtesse-de-Lalande

Label condition issue

RP  95   
WS  94   
VN  94   
JR  17   
2 available
Bid *

1988 Château Montrose

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

2002 Château Montrose

WS  92   
ST  91+    
RP  90   
JR  17.5+    
3 available
Bid *

2002 Château Montrose

WS  92   
ST  91+    
RP  90   
JR  17.5+    

2011 Château Montrose

RP  91-93   
VN  91+    
5 available
Bid *

2015 Château Montrose

Light label condition issue

WA  95   
WS  92   
JR  17+    

2017 Château Ducru-Beaucaillou

JS  98   
JD  98   
WA  96+    
VN  96   
WE  96   
WS  95   
JR  17.5   
2 available
Bid *