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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.

1966 Cos d'Estournel

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

MB  ****   

1966 Château Montrose

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

WA  95-96   
MB  ***/**   

1966 Château Montrose

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

WA  95-96   
MB  ***/**   

1966 Château Montrose

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

WA  95-96   
MB  ***/**   

1966 Château Montrose

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

WA  95-96   
MB  ***/**   

1971 Château Palmer

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

1971 Château Palmer

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

1971 Château Palmer

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

1971 Château Palmer

Light capsule condition issue; signs of past seepage; mid 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   

1979 Château Mouton Rothschild

375ml

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

WS  96   

1979 Château Mouton Rothschild

375ml

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

WS  96   

1982 Château Lynch-Bages

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

WS  96   
RP  94   

1982 Château Leoville-Poyferre

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

RP  95   
JR  18.5   
ST  91   
WS  90   
2 available
Bid

1982 Château Gruaud-Larose

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

RP  98   
VN  96   
WS  94   
ST  94   
JR  18   
DE  ****   

1985 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

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

WS  98   
RP  93   

1988 Château Palmer

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

WS  96   

1996 Château Ducru-Beaucaillou

RP  96   
ST  94+    
WS  91   
JS  90   
2 available
Bid

1996 Château Ducru-Beaucaillou

RP  96   
ST  94+    
WS  91   
JS  90   

1996 Château Rauzan-Segla

1.5ltr

Light label condition issue

ST  91   
WS  90   
JR  17.5   
2 available
Bid *

1999 Château Leoville-Las-Cases

WS  94   
ST  92   
RP  91   
JR  17   
DE  ****   
WS  #10 of 2002   
4 available
Bid *

1999 Château Palmer

Lightly elevated cork

RP  95   
ST  92   
WS  91   
JR  17.5   

1999 Château Palmer

RP  95   
ST  92   
WS  91   
JR  17.5   

2000 Château Lynch-Bages

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

RP  97   
WS  96   
WE  95   
ST  92   
JR  17.5   
6 available
Bid *