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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  *****   

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

1969 Château d'Yquem

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

1969 Château d'Yquem

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

1986 Château d'Yquem

Light label condition issue

RP  98   
WS  95   
JR  17.5   

1986 Château d'Yquem

Very top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

RP  98   
WS  95   
JR  17.5   

1990 Château d'Yquem

Light label condition issue

RP  99   
WS  95   
CT  95.4   
ST  94   
JR  18   

1990 Château d'Yquem

RP  99   
WS  95   
CT  95.4   
ST  94   
JR  18   

1994 Château d'Yquem

1995 Château d'Yquem

WA  95   
JR  18.5   
MB  ***/*   

2001 Château d'Yquem

Lightly elevated cork

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

2001 Château d'Yquem

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

2003 Château d'Yquem

Base neck fill; label condition issue

WS  98   
JS  98   
JR  19   
WA  94+    

2003 Château d'Yquem

Light label condition issue

WS  98   
JS  98   
JR  19   
WA  94+    

2003 Château d'Yquem

6.0ltr

WS  98   
JS  98   
JR  19   
WA  94+    

2004 Château d'Yquem

1.5ltr

WS  95-100   
WA  92   
JR  18.5   

2004 Château d'Yquem

3.0ltr

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

WS  95-100   
WA  92   
JR  18.5   

2019 Château Calon-Segur

VN  98   
JD  97   
WS  96   
JS  96   
WA  93   
JR  18   

2019 Château Calon-Segur

Light label condition issue

VN  98   
JD  97   
WS  96   
JS  96   
WA  93   
JR  18   

1983 Château Rieussec

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

WS  94   
RP  92   
JR  18   

1983 Château Rieussec

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

WS  94   
RP  92   
JR  18   

1989 Château Rieussec

Light capsule condition issue; label condition issue

RP  92   
ST  92   

1989 Château Rieussec

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

RP  92   
ST  92