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Haut-Médoc

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.

1982 Château Cantemerle

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

ST  90   

1986 Château La Lagune

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

1986 Château La Lagune

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

1989 Château La Lagune

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

RP  90   
WS  90   
9 available
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1989 Château La Lagune

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

RP  90   
WS  90   
2 available
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2005 Château La Lagune

RP  94   
ST  92   
WS  89-91   

1983 Château Sociando-Mallet

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

WS  92   

1983 Château Sociando-Mallet

Capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; very top shoulder fill; label condition issue

WS  92   

1983 Château Sociando-Mallet

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

WS  92   

1986 Château Sociando-Mallet

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

WS  94   

1986 Château Sociando-Mallet

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

WS  94   

1987 Château Sociando-Mallet

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

1987 Château Sociando-Mallet

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

1987 Château Sociando-Mallet

Light capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; mid shoulder fill; label condition issue

1989 Château Sociando-Mallet

Light capsule condition issue; signs of past seepage; base neck fill; light label condition issue

RP  90   
WS  90   

1995 Château Sociando-Mallet

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

WS  91   
RP  90   

2003 Château Sociando-Mallet

WS  92   
ST  91   
RP  90   
4 available
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2003 Château Sociando-Mallet

Light label condition issue

WS  92   
ST  91   
RP  90   

2003 Château Sociando-Mallet

1.5ltr

Light capsule condition issue

WS  92   
ST  91   
RP  90   

2009 La Demoiselle de Sociando-Mallet

3 available
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1996 Château Potensac

12 available
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1997 Château Potensac

Lightly depressed cork; light label condition issue

JR  16   
2 available
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1997 Château Potensac

JR  16   

1997 Château Potensac

Lightly depressed cork

JR  16   

2000 Château Potensac

Light label condition issue

DE  ****   
2 available
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