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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.

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

1972 Château Lafite-Rothschild

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

1987 Château Lafite-Rothschild

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

1987 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue; light signs of past seepage; heavy label condition issue

1987 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue; signs of past seepage; label condition issue

1987 Château Lafite-Rothschild

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

1987 Château Lafite-Rothschild

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

1987 Château Lafite-Rothschild

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

1987 Château Lafite-Rothschild

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

1964 Château Mouton Rothschild

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

1987 Château Mouton Rothschild

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

1987 Château Mouton Rothschild

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

1987 Château Mouton Rothschild

Base neck fill; light label condition issue

1997 Le Petit Mouton de Mouton Rothschild

1.5ltr

Light label condition issue

1976 Château Latour

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

1976 Château Latour

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

1973 Les Forts de Latour

Capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; very top shoulder fill; label condition issue

1967 Château Cheval-Blanc

Capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; top shoulder fill; label condition issue

1916 Château La Mission Haut Brion

Capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; heavy label condition issue; previously refurbished

1988 Château Montrose

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

1971 Château Palmer

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