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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.

1966 Château Montrose

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

WA  95-96   
MB  ***/**   

1966 Château Montrose

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

WA  95-96   
MB  ***/**   

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

1966 Château Pichon-Longueville Baron

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

MB  ***   

1970 Château Pape-Clement

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

1971 Château Rieussec

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

1972 Château La Fleur Petrus

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

2 available
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1972 Château La Fleur Petrus

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

2 available
Bid *

1964 Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste

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

2 available
Bid *

1964 Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste

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

1969 Château Beychevelle

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

1969 Château Beychevelle

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

1975 Château Beychevelle

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

2 available
Bid *

1966 Château Ausone

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

1966 Château Trotanoy

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

1971 Château Trotanoy

Capsule condition issue; mid shoulder fill

MB  *****   
RP  93   

1978 Château Clerc-Milon

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

1961 Château Brane-Cantenac

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

MB  ***   

1975 Château Brane-Cantenac

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

1970 Château Giscours

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

1970 Château Giscours

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

1970 Château La Lagune

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