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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.

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   

2003 Château Haut-Brion

375ml

Light label condition issue

WS  96   
RP  95   
ST  94   
JR  17   

2015 Château d'Yquem

375ml

WA  100   
JS  99   
WS  98   

2020 Château d'Yquem

375ml

VN  97   
WS  95   
WA  94   
JR  17   

1949 Château La Mission Haut Brion

375ml

Capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; mid shoulder fill; light label condition issue

WS  95   
RP  91   

2001 Château Rieussec

375ml

Light label condition issue

WS  100   
DE  *****   
RP  99   
ST  95   
WA  93   
JR  18.5   
WS  #1 of 2004   

2005 Château Gloria

375ml

Light label condition issue

RP  90   
WS  89-91   
JR  17   

1958 Domaine De Chevalier

375ml

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

2001 Château Lafaurie-Peyraguey

12-bottle Lot, Wood Case, 375ml

JS  96   
WS  95   
ST  93   
WA  92   
JR  17   

1998 Château Coutet

375ml

Lightly elevated cork

ST  92   
RP  91-93   

1992 Château Meyney

375ml

Top shoulder fill

2005 Château Phelan-Segur

375ml

Light label condition issue

WS  89-91   

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

2020 Château Haut-Brion, Château Lafite-Rothschild, Château Margaux, Château Mouton Rothschild

4-bottle Horizontal

See item details for bottle notes

2020 Château Haut-Brion, Château Lafite-Rothschild, Château Margaux, Château Mouton Rothschild

4-bottle Horizontal

See item details for bottle notes

1972 Château Lafite-Rothschild

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

1979 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Base neck fill; light label condition issue

WS  92   
JG  90   
MB  ***   

1981 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; base neck fill; light label condition issue

RP  91   
MB  ***   

1983 Château Lafite-Rothschild

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

RP  92   
WS  91   
MB  ***   

1985 Château Lafite-Rothschild

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

JS  96   
JG  96   
WA  93   
VN  93   
WS  90   
ST  90   
JR  18