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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 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

1984 Carruades de Lafite

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

1973 Les Forts de Latour

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

1988 Château Montrose

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

2011 Château Le Puy Cuvee Barthelemy

2016 Château Le Puy Cuvee Barthelemy

1966 Château Giscours

Depressed cork; light signs of past seepage; base neck fill; heavy label condition issue

1970 Château Malartic-Lagraviere

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

1966 Château Pichon-Longueville Baron

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

MB  ***   

1966 Château Pichon-Longueville Baron

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

MB  ***   

1997 Cos d'Estournel

ST  89-90   
2 available
Bid *

1997 Cos d'Estournel

ST  89-90   

2001 Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste

Light label condition issue

ST  90   
WS  89-91   

1996 Château L'Evangile

RP  90   
ST  88-90   

1996 Château Le Tertre-Roteboeuf

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

RP  90   
ST  89-91   

1993 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

Light label condition issue

RP  90   

1983 Château Leoville-Barton

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

WS  90   

1982 Château Brane-Cantenac

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

WS  90   

1982 Château Brane-Cantenac

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

WS  90   

1988 Château Pichon-Longueville-Comtesse-de-Lalande

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

WS  91   
RP  90   
2 available
Bid *

1990 Château Duhart-Milon-Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue

WS  91   
RP  90   
2 available
Bid *

1998 Château Leoville-Poyferre

Base neck fill; light label condition issue

WS  91