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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.

1943 Château d'Yquem

Capsule condition issue; signs of past seepage; top shoulder fill; heavy label condition issue

MB  *****   

1959 Château d'Yquem

Capsule condition issue; top shoulder fill; label condition issue

WS  97   
JR  18   

1969 Château d'Yquem

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

1969 Château d'Yquem

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

1969 Château d'Yquem

Capsule condition issue; light signs of past seepage; top shoulder fill; heavy label condition issue

1971 Château d'Yquem

Capsule condition issue; very top shoulder fill; label condition issue

WA  97   
WS  93   
JR  16   
MB  ****   

1975 Château d'Yquem

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

MB  *****   
RP  99   
CT  96.5   
WS  95   

1980 Château d'Yquem

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

RP  93   

1983 Château d'Yquem

375ml

Lightly depressed cork; base neck fill; light label condition issue

RP  96   
CT  95.3   
WS  92   
JR  18.5   

1983 Château d'Yquem

375ml

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

RP  96   
CT  95.3   
WS  92   
JR  18.5   

1983 Château d'Yquem

375ml

Light capsule condition issue; base neck fill; light label condition issue

RP  96   
CT  95.3   
WS  92   
JR  18.5   

1983 Château d'Yquem

375ml

Light capsule condition issue; very top shoulder fill

RP  96   
CT  95.3   
WS  92   
JR  18.5   

1985 Château d'Yquem

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

WS  94   
MB  ****   

1986 Château d'Yquem

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

RP  98   
WS  95   
JR  17.5   

1990 Château d'Yquem

Lightly elevated cork; light label condition issue

RP  99   
WS  95   
CT  95.4   
ST  94   
JR  18   

2001 Château d'Yquem

Lightly elevated cork; light label condition issue

RP  100   
WS  100   
JS  100   
JR  19.5   
CT  97.8   
WS  #10 of 2005   

2004 Château d'Yquem

1.5ltr

WS  95-100   
WA  92   
JR  18.5   

2013 Château d'Yquem

Lightly elevated cork; light label condition issue

WS  98   
JS  98   
CT  96.2   
WA  95-97   
JR  19+    
VN  93-96   

1982... 2000 Château d'Yquem

12-bottle Vertical, Wood Case

See item details for bottle notes; Light case condition issue

2009 Château d'Yquem

1-bottle Lot, Wood Case, 1.5ltr

WA  100   
WS  98   
JS  98   
CT  98   
VN  97-100   
JR  19+    

2013 Château d'Yquem

1-bottle Lot, Wood Case, 1.5ltr

WS  98   
JS  98   
CT  96.2   
WA  95-97   
JR  19+    
VN  93-96   

2013 Château d'Yquem Ygrec "Y"

1.5ltr

Light label condition issue

WS  96   

2015 Château d'Yquem Ygrec "Y"

1-bottle Lot, Wood Case, 1.5ltr

WS  95   
CT  94.1   
WA  92   

2000 Château Calon-Segur

12-bottle Lot, Wood Case

WS  93   
RP  91+    
ST  90+    
JR  17   

2018 Château Calon-Segur

6-bottle Lot, Wood Case

JD  99   
JS  97   
WE  97   
WA  96-98   
WS  95   
VN  92   
JR  18