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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.

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 *

1986 Château Beychevelle

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

WS  93   
RP  92   

1995 Château Beychevelle

Light label condition issue

2009 Château Beychevelle

JS  96   
RP  93   
WS  92   
ST  91+    

2018 Château Beychevelle

JD  96   
WA  95   
WS  95   
WE  95   
JS  94   
VN  92   
JR  16.5   
3 available
Bid *

2018 Château Beychevelle

Light label condition issue

JD  96   
WA  95   
WS  95   
WE  95   
JS  94   
VN  92   
JR  16.5   

1996 Château L'Evangile

RP  90   
ST  88-90   

2008 Château L'Evangile

RP  94   
WS  93   
ST  91   
7 available
Bid *

2008 Château L'Evangile

Light label condition issue

RP  94   
WS  93   
ST  91   
5 available
Bid *

2017 Château L'Evangile

WS  97   
VN  97   
JD  96   
WA  95   
JS  95   
JR  15.5   

1986 Château Talbot

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

RP  96   
WS  91   
DE  ***   

1989 Château Talbot

Very top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

DE  ***   

2015 Château Troplong-Mondot

JD  99   
JS  98   
WA  96   
WE  96   
WS  95   
VN  93   
6 available
Bid *

2005 Château Malescot-St Exupery

WS  97   
RP  96   
JS  95-96   
ST  93   
WS  #18 of 2008   
2 available
Bid *

2005 Château Malescot-St Exupery

Light label condition issue

WS  97   
RP  96   
JS  95-96   
ST  93   
WS  #18 of 2008   

2005 Château Malescot-St Exupery

Light capsule condition issue

WS  97   
RP  96   
JS  95-96   
ST  93   
WS  #18 of 2008   

1990 Château Canon

Light capsule condition issue; base neck fill

WA  93   
WS  91   
3 available
Bid *

2011 Château Le Puy Cuvee Barthelemy

1982 Château Brane-Cantenac

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

WS  90   

2003 Clos Fourtet

Light label condition issue

RP  98   
JS  94   
WS  93   
ST  90   
JR  15.5   

1993 Château Prieure-Lichine

1.5ltr

Light capsule condition issue; 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