Sign In

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.

2000 Carruades de Lafite

Light label condition issue

WS  93   
RP  90   
JR  16   
DE  ****   
2 available
Bid *

1961 Château Lafite-Rothschild

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

MB  *****   
WS  94   
VN  91   
JS  90   

1978 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Capsule condition issue; top shoulder fill; label condition issue

WS  94   
JR  17   
MB  ***   

1978 Château Lafite-Rothschild

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

WS  94   
JR  17   
MB  ***   

1978 Château Lafite-Rothschild

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

WS  94   
JR  17   
MB  ***   

1979 Château Lafite-Rothschild

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

WS  92   
JG  90   
MB  ***   

1983 Château Lafite-Rothschild

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

RP  92   
WS  91   
MB  ***   

1985 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Lightly depressed cork; base neck fill; label condition issue

JS  96   
JG  96   
WA  93   
VN  93   
WS  90   
ST  90   
JR  18   

1988 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; label condition issue

RP  94   
WS  90   
JR  17.5   

1990 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue; base neck fill

RP  96   
JR  19   
WS  94   

1993 Château Lafite-Rothschild

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

WS  94   

1996 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue

RP  100   
ST  96+    
WS  95   
JR  19   

1997 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue

RP  92   
WS  90   
JR  18   
ST  89-93   

1997 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

RP  92   
WS  90   
JR  18   
ST  89-93   

1997 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue

RP  92   
WS  90   
JR  18   
ST  89-93   

1998 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

RP  98   
WS  95   
ST  94+    
JR  18   

1999 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Light label condition issue

RP  95   
WS  95   
ST  92   
JR  18   
WS  #13 of 2002   

2000 Château Lafite-Rothschild

WS  100   
WE  99   
RP  98+    
ST  96   
JR  18.5   

2001 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Label condition issue

WS  96   
RP  94   
ST  93   
JR  18   
WS  #7 of 2004   

2004 Château Lafite-Rothschild

RP  95   
WS  93   
ST  93   
JR  18   

2005 Château Lafite-Rothschild

JS  100   
WS  98   
JR  19.5   
ST  97   
RP  96   
2 available
Bid *

2006 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

RP  97   
WS  95   
ST  95+    
JR  17   

2009 Château Lafite-Rothschild

JS  100   
RP  99+    
WS  98   
VN  96+    
JR  19   

2013 Château Lafite-Rothschild

JS  95   
WS  92   
WA  90   
VN  89-92   
JR  16   

2015 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Light label condition issue

WA  96+    
WS  95