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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 Les Forts de Latour

Light capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; top shoulder fill; label condition issue

1985 Les Forts de Latour

Capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; top shoulder fill; label condition issue

1990 Les Forts de Latour

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

WS  94   
RP  90   

1990 Les Forts de Latour

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

WS  94   
RP  90   

2006 Les Forts de Latour

Capsule condition issue; label condition issue

RP  92   
ST  91   
4 available
Bid *

2006 Les Forts de Latour

Capsule condition issue; heavy label condition issue

RP  92   
ST  91   
2 available
Bid *

2006 Les Forts de Latour

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

RP  92   
ST  91   

2010 Pauillac de Chateau Latour

VN  92   
JR  17   

2010 Pauillac de Chateau Latour

Light label condition issue

VN  92   
JR  17   

1995 Château Lynch-Bages

Label condition issue

WA  94   
WS  94   
JR  17+    

2006 Château Lynch-Bages

RP  94   
WS  92   
ST  90   
JR  16   
6 available
Bid *

2009 Château Lynch-Bages

Light label condition issue

RP  98   
JS  97   
WS  96   
VN  93+    
JR  17.5   
WS  #93 of 2012   

2015 Château Lynch-Bages

VN  96   
WS  94   
WA  92+    

2019 Château Lynch-Bages

JD  100   
VN  99   
JS  97   
WA  96+    
WS  96   
JR  17+    
4 available
Bid *

1978 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

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

WS  94   
RP  90   
MB  ****   

1988 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

Capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; mid shoulder fill; label condition issue

WS  95   
RP  92   
MB  */***   
2 available
Bid *

1988 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

Capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; base neck fill; label condition issue

WS  95   
RP  92   
MB  */***   
2 available
Bid *

1988 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

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

WS  95   
RP  92   
MB  */***   

1988 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

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

WS  95   
RP  92   
MB  */***   

1988 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

Signs of past seepage; top shoulder fill

WS  95   
RP  92   
MB  */***   

1988 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

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

WS  95   
RP  92   
MB  */***   

1988 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

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

WS  95   
RP  92   
MB  */***   

2000 Château Pontet-Canet

Light label condition issue

RP  94+    
WS  93   
ST  93   
JR  17.5   
3 available
Bid *

2015 Château Pontet-Canet

Light label condition issue

WA  96+    
WS  94   

2016 Château Pontet-Canet

VN  99   
WA  98   
JD  98+    
WS  95   
JR  17.5