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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.

1986 Château Mouton Rothschild

Top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

RP  100   
JS  100   
WS  99   
CT  95.8   
ST  95   
JR  18.5   
MB  **/***   

1988 Château Mouton Rothschild

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

JS  93   
WS  92   
JR  17+    
MB  ***/*   

1989 Château Mouton Rothschild

Lightly depressed cork; very top shoulder fill

WS  91   
RP  90   
VN  90   
JR  18   
MB  ***/**   

1990 Château Mouton Rothschild

Very top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

WS  97   
VN  94   
JR  17.5   

1990 Château Mouton Rothschild

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

WS  97   
VN  94   
JR  17.5   

1994 Château Mouton Rothschild

Light label condition issue

RP  91   
WS  91   

1995 Château Mouton Rothschild

Base neck fill; light label condition issue

WS  96   
RP  95   
VN  95   
JR  18.5   

1996 Château Mouton Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue

WS  96   
VN  96   
RP  94   
JR  18   

1996 Château Mouton Rothschild

Light label condition issue

WS  96   
VN  96   
RP  94   
JR  18   

1998 Château Mouton Rothschild

Label condition issue

RP  96   
CT  93.6   
ST  92+    
WS  91   
JR  17   

2000 Château Mouton Rothschild

Lightly elevated cork

RP  96+    
CT  94.6   
ST  94   
WS  93   
JS  93   
JR  17.5   

2001 Château Mouton Rothschild

WS  94   
ST  91+    
JR  18   

2001 Château Mouton Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; light label condition issue

WS  94   
ST  91+    
JR  18   

2001 Château Mouton Rothschild

WS  94   
ST  91+    
JR  18   

2007 Château Mouton Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

JS  94   
ST  93   
RP  92   
WS  92   
JR  17+    

1993 Château Mouton Rothschild Balthus

Lightly depressed cork; light label condition issue

RP  90   
WS  90   
JS  90   
JR  16.5   

1993 Château Mouton Rothschild Balthus

Lightly elevated cork; light label condition issue

RP  90   
WS  90   
JS  90   
JR  16.5   

1961 Château Lafite-Rothschild

1.5ltr

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

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

1981 Château Lafite-Rothschild

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

RP  91   
MB  ***   

1985 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Base neck fill; label condition issue

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

1994 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Label condition issue

WS  93   
RP  90   

2000 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Light label condition issue

WS  100   
WE  99   
RP  98+    
ST  96   
CT  95.8   
JR  18.5   

1985 Château Margaux

Base neck fill; light label condition issue

WA  96   
RP  95   

1993 Château Margaux

Lightly depressed cork; light label condition issue

WS  90   

1994 Château Margaux

Light label condition issue; light writing on label

RP  91+    
WS  90