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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.

1961 Château d'Yquem

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

MB  ***   

1976 Château d'Yquem

Capsule condition issue; top shoulder fill; label condition issue

RP  96   
WS  96   
JR  18.5   

1983 Château d'Yquem

RP  96   
CT  95.3   
WS  92   
JR  18.5   

1986 Château d'Yquem

Elevated cork; light signs of past seepage; very top shoulder fill

RP  98   
WS  95   
JR  17.5   

1995 Château d'Yquem

WA  95   
JR  18.5   
MB  ***/*   

1995 Château d'Yquem

Lightly elevated cork

WA  95   
JR  18.5   
MB  ***/*   

1995 Château d'Yquem

Lightly depressed cork

WA  95   
JR  18.5   
MB  ***/*   

1995 Château d'Yquem

WA  95   
JR  18.5   
MB  ***/*   

1997 Château d'Yquem

375ml

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

RP  96   
WS  95   
JR  18   

1997 Château d'Yquem

375ml

Base neck fill or better; light label condition issue

RP  96   
WS  95   
JR  18   

2007 Château d'Yquem

375ml

WA  97   
WS  96   
ST  95-98   
JR  19   

1971 Château Rieussec

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

1971 Château Rieussec

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

1983 Château Rieussec

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

WS  94   
RP  92   
JR  18   
2 available
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1983 Château Rieussec

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

WS  94   
RP  92   
JR  18   
2 available
Bid *

1983 Château Rieussec

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

WS  94   
RP  92   
JR  18   

1983 Château Rieussec

Light capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; light label condition issue

WS  94   
RP  92   
JR  18   

1983 Château Rieussec

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

WS  94   
RP  92   
JR  18   

1986 Château Rieussec

375ml

Base neck fill; light label condition issue

RP  91   

1988 Château Rieussec

Light label condition issue

RP  94   
WS  94   
ST  90   

1989 Château Rieussec

Light label condition issue

RP  92   
ST  92   
2 available
Bid *

1989 Château Rieussec

RP  92   
ST  92   

2003 Château Rieussec

375ml

Light label condition issue

RP  96   
WS  95   
ST  92-95   
JR  17   
5 available
Bid *

2003 Château Rieussec

RP  96   
WS  95   
ST  92-95   
JR  17   
2 available
Bid

2009 Château Rieussec

JS  98   
WA  97   
VN  97   
WS  95   
CT  93.9   
JR  18   
2 available
Bid *