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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.

2000 Les Pagodes de Cos

Light label condition issue; light writing on label

WS  92   

2019 Château Pontet-Canet

Lightly depressed cork

WS  94   
WA  93   

2017 Château Smith-Haut-Lafitte

WA  97+    
VN  97   
JS  97   
WE  97   
JD  96   
WS  95   
CT  92.8   
JR  17.5   
2 available
Bid

2016 Château Pape-Clement

Light label condition issue

JS  98   
JD  97   
WA  96   
WS  96   
VN  96   
WE  95   
JR  17   

2016 Château Pape-Clement

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

JS  98   
JD  97   
WA  96   
WS  96   
VN  96   
WE  95   
JR  17   

1981 Château Gruaud-Larose

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

WS  91   
9 available
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1981 Château Gruaud-Larose

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

WS  91   

1983 Château Gruaud-Larose

Base neck fill

RP  90   
WS  90   
MB  ***   
3 available
Bid

1983 Château Gruaud-Larose

Very top shoulder fill

RP  90   
WS  90   
MB  ***   

1983 Château Gruaud-Larose

Light capsule condition issue; base neck fill

RP  90   
WS  90   
MB  ***   

1985 Château Gruaud-Larose

Very top shoulder fill

RP  90   
MB  ****   
DE  ****   
2 available
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1985 Château Gruaud-Larose

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

RP  90   
MB  ****   
DE  ****   

1985 Château Gruaud-Larose

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

RP  90   
MB  ****   
DE  ****   

1985 Château Gruaud-Larose

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

RP  90   
MB  ****   
DE  ****   

1985 Château Gruaud-Larose

Light capsule condition issue; very top shoulder fill

RP  90   
MB  ****   
DE  ****   

1985 Château Gruaud-Larose

Base neck fill

RP  90   
MB  ****   
DE  ****   

1988 Château Duhart-Milon-Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

CT  90.2   
3 available
Bid *

1988 Château Duhart-Milon-Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue; label condition issue

CT  90.2   

2000 Château Haut-Bailly

Light label condition issue

WS  92   
RP  91   
ST  91   
JR  17.5   
4 available
Bid

2000 Château Haut-Bailly

WS  92   
RP  91   
ST  91   
JR  17.5   

1975 Château Rieussec

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

RP  90   
MB  ****   

2006 Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste

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

2015 Château Beychevelle

Light label condition issue

JD  95   
VN  94   
JS  94   
WA  93   
WS  93   
JR  17.5   
2 available
Bid *

2006 Château Talbot

WS  91   
JR  15.5   

1982 Château Branaire-Ducru

375ml

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

RP  93   
10 available
Bid *