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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.

2022 Château Lynch-Bages Blanc de Lynch-Bages

Light label condition issue

2002 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

375ml

Light label condition issue

RP  95   
WS  94   
ST  93+    

2007 Château Clinet

Light label condition issue

RP  91   
ST  90+    

2011 Château Clinet

Light label condition issue

RP  92-94   

1997 Château Duhart-Milon-Rothschild

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

2003 Château Duhart-Milon-Rothschild

Light label condition issue

RP  94   
WS  92   
ST  88-91   
JR  16   

2003 Château Duhart-Milon-Rothschild

Label condition issue

RP  94   
WS  92   
ST  88-91   
JR  16   

2022 Château Pavie-Macquin

2014 Château Rieussec

WA  95-97   
JS  95   
VN  94   
WE  94   
JR  17   

1983 Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste

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

1999 Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste

Label condition issue

2002 Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste

Light capsule condition issue

1993 Château Rauzan-Segla

Light label condition issue

2008 Château Rauzan-Segla

Light label condition issue

RP  90+    
WS  90   
VN  88-91   
JR  17   

1997 Château Troplong-Mondot

Light signs of past seepage; base neck fill

ST  88-90   

1997 Château Troplong-Mondot

Base neck fill or better; light label condition issue

ST  88-90   

2020 Château Beychevelle

Light label condition issue

JD  97   
VN  96   
JS  94   
WA  93+    

1975 Château Talbot

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

2005 Château Beausejour (Duffau Lagarrosse)

WS  92-94   
RP  91   
ST  91+    

2005 Château Beausejour (Duffau Lagarrosse)

Lightly depressed cork

WS  92-94   
RP  91   
ST  91+    

1989 Château Branaire-Ducru

Lightly depressed cork; top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

RP  92   
VN  91   
WS  90   

2008 Domaine De Chevalier

Lightly elevated cork; light label condition issue

RP  93   
WS  91   

1978 Château Lascombes

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

1978 Château Lascombes

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

1978 Château Lascombes

Light capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; base neck fill; light label condition issue