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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.

2007 Château Clinet

Light label condition issue

RP  91   
ST  90+    

2019 Château Lascombes

JS  96   
JD  93+    
WA  92+    
VN  92   
WS  90   
JR  16   

2006 Château Gloria

Light writing on label

RP  90   
WS  90   

2006 Château Fleur Cardinale

RP  91   
ST  91   
JR  15   

1986 Château Guiraud

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

WS  93   
RP  92   

1986 Château Guiraud

Light capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; base neck fill; light label condition issue

WS  93   
RP  92   

1988 Château Guiraud

375ml

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

WA  90   

1990 Château Guiraud

Light capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; light signs of past seepage; light label condition issue

WS  96   
RP  91   

1990 Château Guiraud

Capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; signs of past seepage; light label condition issue

WS  96   
RP  91   

1990 Château Guiraud

Capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; signs of past seepage

WS  96   
RP  91   

2000 Château Lafon-Rochet

Lightly depressed cork; light label condition issue

WS  91   
RP  90   
ST  90   

2004 Château Prieure-Lichine

Lightly depressed cork; light signs of past seepage; light label condition issue

RP  89-92   

2003 Château Sociando-Mallet

Light label condition issue

WS  92   
ST  91   
CT  91.2   
RP  90   

1986 Château Meyney

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

RP  90   
WS  90   

1986 Château Meyney

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

RP  90   
WS  90   

2015 Château Coutet

Light label condition issue

WE  96   
JD  96   
WA  95   
WS  95   
VN  95   
JS  94   
JR  17   

2003 Château Les Carmes Haut Brion

ST  90   

2003 Château Les Carmes Haut Brion

Lightly depressed cork

ST  90   

1999 Clos de l'Oratoire

Light label condition issue

RP  91   
WS  90   

2005 Clos de l'Oratoire

Heavy capsule condition issue

RP  94   
WS  92-94   
ST  91   
JR  16   

1998 Château Larrivet-Haut-Brion

Light label condition issue

RP  90   
WS  90   

2020 Château Beau-Sejour Becot

VN  97   
JS  96-97   
WA  95+    
JD  95   
WS  94   
JR  16.5   

2000 Château de Fieuzal

RP  90   

2000 Château Haut-Bergey

Lightly elevated cork

RP  94   
ST  90   

1983 Château du Tertre

Light capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; signs of past seepage; light label condition issue

WS  91