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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.

1985 Chateau Beausejour (St. Emilion)

Capsule condition issue; base neck fill; label condition issue

1985 Chateau Beausejour (St. Emilion)

Capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; base neck fill; label condition issue

1999 Château Rol Valentin

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

1983 Château Les Ormes-de-Pez

Heavy capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; signs of past seepage; top shoulder fill; label condition issue

5 available
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1982 Château Camensac

1.5ltr

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

1961 Château Grand-Puy-Ducasse

Capsule condition issue; mid shoulder fill; label condition issue

1990 Barons de Lafite Rothschild Reserve Speciale Pauillac

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

8 available
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1990 Barons de Lafite Rothschild Reserve Speciale Pauillac

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

3 available
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1990 Barons de Lafite Rothschild Reserve Speciale Pauillac

Light label condition issue

2 available
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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

1986 Château La Cardonne

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

1986 Château La Cardonne

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

1988 Château La Cardonne

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

6 available
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2016 Rarecat St. Emilion

17 available
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2016 Rarecat St. Emilion

Lightly elevated cork

1988 Château Poujeaux

Capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; base neck fill; light label condition issue

1999 Château Durfort-Vivens

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

2007 Château Dassault

Light capsule condition issue

3 available
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1989 Château Fourcas-Hosten

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

5 available
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1989 Château Fourcas-Hosten

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

1988 Château Cambon la Pelouse

Very top shoulder fill; label condition issue