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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.

1983 Château Mouton Rothschild

1.5ltr

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

WS  94   
WA  93   
JS  93   
VN  92   
JR  18   
MB  ****   

1978 Château Lafite-Rothschild

1.5ltr

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

WS  94   
JR  17   
MB  ***   

2006 Château Lafite-Rothschild

1.5ltr

RP  97   
WS  95   
ST  95+    
JR  17   

2006 Château Lafite-Rothschild

1.5ltr

Light capsule condition issue

RP  97   
WS  95   
ST  95+    
JR  17   

2006 Château Lafite-Rothschild

1.5ltr

Light capsule condition issue

RP  97   
WS  95   
ST  95+    
JR  17   

2015 Château Lafite-Rothschild

1.5ltr

Light capsule condition issue

WA  96+    
WS  95   

2016 Château Lafite-Rothschild

1-bottle Lot, Wood Case, 3.0ltr

JD  100   
WA  99   
VN  99   
WS  98   
CT  97.2   
JR  18   

1981 Château Margaux

1.5ltr

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

WS  95   
CT  92   
RP  91   

2006 Cos d'Estournel

1.5ltr

RP  94   
WS  93   
ST  93   
JR  18   

1995 Petrus

1.5ltr

Label condition issue

WS  97   
RP  96   
ST  96   
JR  17.5   

1976 Château d'Yquem

1.5ltr

Light capsule condition issue; base neck fill or better; label condition issue

RP  96   
WS  96   
JR  18.5   

2004 Château d'Yquem

1.5ltr

WS  95-100   
WA  92   
JR  18.5   

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   

2015 Château d'Yquem Ygrec "Y"

1-bottle Lot, Wood Case, 1.5ltr

WS  95   
CT  94.1   
WA  92   

2006 Château Ducru-Beaucaillou

1.5ltr

Light label condition issue

WS  95   
JS  95   
RP  94   
ST  93+    
JR  15.5   
WS  #96 of 2009   

2000 Château Pavie

3.0ltr

RP  100   
WS  96   
ST  95   
CT  95.4   
JR  17   

1989 Château La Conseillante

1.5ltr

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

RP  96   
WS  92   
MB  ***/*   

2019 Château Clinet

1-bottle Lot, Wood Case, 3.0ltr

Light capsule condition issue

JD  98   
WA  97   
VN  94+    
CT  94.4   
WS  93   
JR  16.5   

2015 Château Figeac

3.0ltr

Light capsule condition issue

JD  100   
WA  97+    
WS  96   
CT  95.7   

2015 Château Figeac

3.0ltr

JD  100   
WA  97+    
WS  96   
CT  95.7   

1990 Château Ausone

6.0ltr

Capsule condition issue; signs of past seepage; light label condition issue

WS  92   
ST  92+    
RP  91   
JR  17   

2021 Château Ausone

1.5ltr

JS  96-97   
WE  96   
DE  96   
WA  94+    
VN  94   
JD  94   

2014 Château Beausejour (Duffau Lagarrosse)

1.5ltr

VN  94-97   
WS  93-96   
JS  93-94   
WA  90-92   

2021 Château Branaire-Ducru

3-bottle Lot, Wood Case, 1.5ltr

WA  94   
JS  94-95   
DE  94   
VN  92   
JD  90