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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.

2013 Château Calon-Segur

Light label condition issue

WA  91   
WS  90   
VN  88-91   
JR  15.5   

1983 Château Rieussec

375ml

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

WS  94   
RP  92   
JR  18   

2005 Château Rieussec

Light label condition issue

RP  96   
WS  96   
ST  93   
JS  93   

2005 Château Rieussec

RP  96   
WS  96   
ST  93   
JS  93   

1990 Château Lafaurie-Peyraguey

Light label condition issue

ST  93   
RP  92   

1990 Château Lafaurie-Peyraguey

ST  93   
RP  92   

2005 Château Lafaurie-Peyraguey

Light label condition issue

JS  95   
WS  92   
WA  91   

2001 Château Raymond-Lafon

Lightly depressed cork

RP  93