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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.

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

2000 Château Paloumey

12-bottle Lot, Wood Case

See item details for bottle notes; Light case condition issue

1966 Cos d'Estournel

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

MB  ****   

1996 Château Rauzan-Segla

1.5ltr

Light label condition issue

ST  91   
WS  90   
JR  17.5   
2 available
Bid *

2010 Château Pichon-Longueville-Comtesse-de-Lalande

RP  92-95+    
WS  92-95   
ST  91+    
JR  17   

2010 Château Pichon-Longueville-Comtesse-de-Lalande

Light label condition issue

RP  92-95+    
WS  92-95   
ST  91+    
JR  17   

2000 Château Calon-Segur

1.5ltr

Light label condition issue

WS  93   
RP  91+    
ST  90+    
JR  17   

1999 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

WS  94   
ST  92   
RP  91   
JR  17   
DE  ****   
WS  #10 of 2002   
4 available
Bid *

2006 Château Lynch-Bages

RP  94   
WS  92   
ST  90   
JR  16   

2003 Château Branaire-Ducru

1.5ltr

RP  94   
JS  94   
WS  93   
VN  92   
ST  92   
WE  91   
JR  15.5   

1976 Château Ausone

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

RP  94   

1976 Château Ausone

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

RP  94   

1966 Château Montrose

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

WA  95-96   
MB  ***/**   

1966 Château Montrose

Light 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; 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  ***/**   

2003 Château Pontet-Canet

1.5ltr

RP  95   
WS  94   
ST  93   
WE  91   
JR  16   
WS  #39 of 2006   

2003 Château Pontet-Canet

1.5ltr

RP  95   
WS  94   
ST  93   
WE  91   
JR  16   
WS  #39 of 2006   

1999 Château Palmer

Lightly elevated cork

RP  95   
ST  92   
WS  91   
JR  17.5   

1999 Château Palmer

RP  95   
ST  92   
WS  91   
JR  17.5   

2005 Château Le Gay

1.5ltr

RP  95+    
WS  93   
ST  92   
JR  17   
4 available
Bid *

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