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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.

1961 Château Brane-Cantenac

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

MB  ***   

1966 Château Lafite-Rothschild

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

WA  96   
VN  94   
MB  ****   

1970 Château Giscours

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

1975 Château Cheval-Blanc

Capsule condition issue; mid shoulder fill; label condition issue

RP  90   
MB  ****   

1975 Château Montrose

Very top shoulder fill; label condition issue

MB  ****/*   

1975 Château Suduiraut

Light capsule condition issue; label condition issue

1975 Château Suduiraut

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

1976 Château Latour

1.5ltr

Light capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; light label condition issue

1978 Château Pichon-Longueville-Comtesse-de-Lalande

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

RP  92   

1978 Château Pichon-Longueville-Comtesse-de-Lalande

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

RP  92   

1981 Château Pichon-Longueville-Comtesse-de-Lalande

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

WS  93   

1982 Château Lafite-Rothschild

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

RP  97+    
JS  96   
ST  95+    
WS  94   
JR  18.5   
MB  ****/*   

1982 Château Rouget

1.5ltr

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

2 available
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1982 Château Rouget

1.5ltr

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

1982 Château Camensac

1.5ltr

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

1986 Château Pape-Clement

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

WS  92   
WA  90   

1986 Château Talbot

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

RP  96   
WS  91   
DE  ***   

1986 Château Giscours

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

3 available
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1986 Château Giscours

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

2 available
Bid *

1986 Château Giscours

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

1986 Château Giscours

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

1986 Château Giscours

Top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

1986 Château Giscours

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

1989 Château Giscours

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

WS  92   

1989 Château Meyney

Light label condition issue

WS  93   
RP  90   
3 available
Bid *