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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.

1988 Château Pichon-Longueville-Comtesse-de-Lalande

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

WS  91   
RP  90   
2 available
Bid *

1988 Château Montrose

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

1983 Château Leoville-Barton

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

WS  90   

1986 Château Leoville-Barton

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

WA  94   
RP  92   
WS  90   
DE  ****   

1986 Château Leoville-Barton

Lightly depressed cork; very top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

WA  94   
RP  92   
WS  90   
DE  ****   

1988 Château Palmer

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

WS  96   

1989 Château Palmer

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

RP  95   
WS  93   
JR  17   

1982 Château Leoville-Poyferre

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

RP  95   
JR  18.5   
ST  91   
WS  90   
2 available
Bid

1989 Château La Conseillante

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

RP  96   
WS  92   
MB  ***/*   
4 available
Bid *

1989 Château La Conseillante

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

RP  96   
WS  92   
MB  ***/*   

1989 Château La Conseillante

Capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

RP  96   
WS  92   
MB  ***/*   

1988 Château Calon-Segur

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

RP  91   
JR  17.5   

1982 Château Gruaud-Larose

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

RP  98   
VN  96   
WS  94   
ST  94   
JR  18   
DE  ****   

1986 Château Gruaud-Larose

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

RP  96   
JR  17.5   
DE  ****   

1986 Château Gruaud-Larose

Top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

RP  96   
JR  17.5   
DE  ****   

1983 Château Rieussec

WS  94   
RP  92   
JR  18   
4 available
Bid *

1986 Château Beychevelle

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

WS  93   
RP  92   

1986 Château Beychevelle

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

WS  93   
RP  92   

1989 Château Lafleur

Base neck fill; light label condition issue

WS  97   
RP  95   
JR  19   
ST  94   

1989 Château Lafleur

Very top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

WS  97   
RP  95   
JR  19   
ST  94   

1983 Château Canon

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

RP  90   

1983 Château Canon

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

RP  90   

1982 Château Branaire-Ducru

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

RP  93   

1983 Château Trotanoy

1.5ltr

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

1982 Château Cantemerle

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

ST  90