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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.

2020 Château Lynch-Bages

WS  96   
WS  #3 of 2023   
3 available
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1978 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

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

WS  94   
CT  90.9   
RP  90   
MB  ****   

1978 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

Capsule condition issue; base neck fill; label condition issue

WS  94   
CT  90.9   
RP  90   
MB  ****   

1978 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

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

WS  94   
CT  90.9   
RP  90   
MB  ****   

1979 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

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

CT  91.1   
14 available
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1979 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

CT  91.1   
7 available
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1979 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

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

CT  91.1   

1980 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

1981 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

Lightly elevated cork; signs of past seepage

CT  90.2   

1981 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

Light capsule condition issue; signs of past seepage; base neck fill; light label condition issue

CT  90.2   

1981 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

Light capsule condition issue; signs of past seepage

CT  90.2   

1981 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

Light capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; signs of past seepage; base neck fill

CT  90.2   

1981 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

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

CT  90.2   

1989 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

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

WS  96   
RP  91   
JR  17   

2004 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

WS  95   
WE  95   
RP  93   
ST  90+    
JR  17.5   
WS  #6 of 2007   

2013 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

Light label condition issue

WE  95   
WS  92   
VN  91   
JR  16   

1994 Château Pontet-Canet

Capsule condition issue; label condition issue

RP  93   
CT  91.4   

2014 Château Pontet-Canet

Lightly depressed cork

JD  96   
VN  95   
WA  94   
WS  93   

2016 Château Pontet-Canet

Light label condition issue

VN  99   
WA  98   
JD  98+    
WS  95   
JR  17.5   

2016 Château Pontet-Canet

VN  99   
WA  98   
JD  98+    
WS  95   
JR  17.5   

1998 Château d'Yquem

375ml

ST  95   
RP  91   
JR  18   

2005 Château d'Yquem

375ml

WA  97   
WS  97   
JS  95   
JR  18.5   
8 available
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2013 Château d'Yquem

375ml

WS  98   
JS  98   
CT  96.2   
WA  95-97   
JR  19+    
VN  93-96   
12 available
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1979 Château Pichon-Longueville-Comtesse-de-Lalande

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

WS  93   
CT  91.7   
WA  91   
RP  90   

1979 Château Pichon-Longueville-Comtesse-de-Lalande

Light capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; signs of past seepage; base neck fill or better; label condition issue

WS  93   
CT  91.7   
WA  91   
RP  90