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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.

1975 Château Talbot

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

1978 Château Clerc-Milon

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

1982 Château Cantemerle

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

ST  90   

1982 Château Prieure-Lichine

Capsule condition issue; depressed cork; signs of past seepage; heavy label condition issue

JR  15   

1982 Clos des Jacobins

Heavy capsule condition issue; heavy signs of past seepage; top shoulder fill; heavy label condition issue

WS  91   

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   

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   

1988 Château Calon-Segur

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

RP  91   
JR  17.5   

1989 Château La Lagune

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

RP  90   
WS  90   
8 available
Bid *

1989 Château Sociando-Mallet

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

RP  90   
WS  90   

1990 Barons de Lafite Rothschild Reserve Speciale Pauillac

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

8 available
Bid *

1990 Barons de Lafite Rothschild Reserve Speciale Pauillac

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

3 available
Bid *

1990 Barons de Lafite Rothschild Reserve Speciale Pauillac

Light label condition issue

2 available
Bid *

1990 Barons de Lafite Rothschild Reserve Speciale Pauillac

Base neck fill; light label condition issue

1990 Barons de Lafite Rothschild Reserve Speciale Pauillac

Top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

1990 Barons de Lafite Rothschild Reserve Speciale Pauillac

Lightly depressed cork; light label condition issue

1990 Barons de Lafite Rothschild Reserve Speciale Pauillac

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

1990 Barons de Lafite Rothschild Reserve Speciale Pauillac

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

1995 Château Duhart-Milon-Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue

WS  90   
6 available
Bid

1995 Château Duhart-Milon-Rothschild

WS  90   
3 available
Bid *

1995 Château LaGrange

Label condition issue

JS  94   
WS  91   
RP  90   
JR  16   

1995 Château LaGrange

Light label condition issue

JS  94   
WS  91   
RP  90   
JR  16