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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.

2005 Arômes de Pavie

RP  90   

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

1989 Barons Edmond Benjamin de Rothschild Haut-Médoc

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

1984 Carruades de Lafite

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

1984 Carruades de Lafite

Light signs of past seepage; top shoulder fill

1984 Carruades de Lafite

Light capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork

1984 Carruades de Lafite

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

1984 Carruades de Lafite

Light signs of past seepage; very top shoulder fill

2000 Carruades de Lafite

1.5ltr

WS  93   
RP  90   
JR  16   
DE  ****   

2000 Carruades de Lafite

1.5ltr

Light label condition issue

WS  93   
RP  90   
JR  16   
DE  ****   

1996 Château Angelus

Light label condition issue

RP  91   
ST  90-92   
JR  17   

2001 Château Angelus

RP  97   
WS  92   
ST  91   
JR  17.5   

2020 Château Angelus

JS  99   
JD  98   
WA  97   
VN  96-98   

1986 Château Angludet

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

WS  91   

1966 Château Ausone

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

1966 Château Ausone

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

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   

2000 Château Ausone

6.0ltr

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

RP  98+    
WE  98   
WS  97   
ST  97+    
JR  18   

2017 Château Ausone

1-bottle Lot, Wood Case, 3.0ltr

Light case condition issue

WA  98   

2015 Château Barde-Haut

JD  96   
JS  95   
WS  93   
WA  92