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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.

1975 Château Lafite-Rothschild

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

WA  93   
MB  ***   

1955 Château Latour

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

MB  *****   
RP  94   
WS  94   

1955 Château Latour

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

MB  *****   
RP  94   
WS  94   

1955 Château Latour

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

MB  *****   
RP  94   
WS  94   

1955 Château Latour

Capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; signs of past seepage; low shoulder fill; light label condition issue

MB  *****   
RP  94   
WS  94   

1955 Château Latour

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

MB  *****   
RP  94   
WS  94   

1966 Château Latour

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

MB  *****   
RP  96   
WS  92   

1978 Château Latour

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

WS  92   
RP  90   
JR  17.5   

1979 Château Latour

1.5ltr

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

1979 Château Margaux

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

RP  92   
WS  91   
MB  ***   

1979 Château Margaux

1.5ltr

Capsule condition issue; light signs of past seepage; base neck fill; heavy label condition issue

RP  92   
WS  91   
MB  ***   

1979 Château Margaux

5.0ltr

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

RP  92   
WS  91   
MB  ***   

1953 Cos d'Estournel

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

MB  *****   
RP  93   
WS  91   
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1979 Petrus

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

WS  90   
JR  17   
MB  ****   

1979 Petrus

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

WS  90   
JR  17   
MB  ****   

1966 Château d'Yquem

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

MB  ****   

1970 Château d'Yquem

Capsule condition issue; signs of past seepage; low shoulder fill; label condition issue

RP  90   
JR  17   
MB  ***   

1979 Château La Mission Haut Brion

6.0ltr

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

1971 Château Palmer

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

1971 Château Palmer

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

1971 Château Palmer

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

1971 Château Palmer

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

1971 Château Palmer

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

1971 Château Palmer

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

1961 Château Pichon-Longueville Baron

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

MB  ****