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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.

1979 Château Rieussec

375ml

Light capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

1988 Château Suduiraut

375ml

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

WS  92   

1988 Château Suduiraut

375ml

Heavy capsule condition issue; signs of past seepage; very top shoulder fill; heavy label condition issue

WS  92   

1997 Château Suduiraut

Lightly depressed cork; heavy label condition issue

ST  92   
WS  90   

2003 Château Suduiraut

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

RP  95   
WS  93   
ST  92   
JR  18   

2003 Château Suduiraut

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

RP  95   
WS  93   
ST  92   
JR  18   

2003 Château Suduiraut

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

RP  95   
WS  93   
ST  92   
JR  18   

2003 Château Suduiraut

Label condition issue

RP  95   
WS  93   
ST  92   
JR  18   

2004 Château Suduiraut

Light label condition issue

ST  88-91   
2 available
Bid *

2004 Château Suduiraut

Signs of past seepage; light label condition issue

ST  88-91   

2006 Château Suduiraut

Heavy label condition issue

RP  93   
WS  92   

1983 Château Climens

375ml

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

WS  95   
RP  92   

1997 Château Climens

500ml

Heavy label condition issue

RP  94   
WS  94   
ST  90   
2 available
Bid *

1997 Château Climens

500ml

Light label condition issue

RP  94   
WS  94   
ST  90   

1997 Château Climens

500ml

Label condition issue

RP  94   
WS  94   
ST  90   

1997 Château Climens

500ml

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

RP  94   
WS  94   
ST  90   

1981 Château Lafaurie-Peyraguey

375ml

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

2005 Château Lafaurie-Peyraguey

Light label condition issue

JS  95   
WS  92   
WA  91   

1978 Château Coutet

Heavy capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; signs of past seepage; top shoulder fill; label condition issue

3 available
Bid *

1978 Château Coutet

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

1983 Château Rabaud-Promis

Light capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; signs of past seepage; top shoulder fill; label condition issue

WS  91   

1988 Château Nairac

Signs of past seepage; base neck fill; heavy label condition issue

WS  91   

2007 Château Sigalas-Rabaud

VN  95   
WE  94   
WS  93   
WA  92   
JR  17