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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.

1983 Château Mouton Rothschild

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

WS  94   
WA  93   
JS  93   
VN  92   
JR  18   
MB  ****   
4 available
Bid *

1983 Château Mouton Rothschild

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

WS  94   
WA  93   
JS  93   
VN  92   
JR  18   
MB  ****   

1983 Château Mouton Rothschild

Very top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

WS  94   
WA  93   
JS  93   
VN  92   
JR  18   
MB  ****   

1985 Château Mouton Rothschild

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

MB  *****   
RP  90   

1985 Château Mouton Rothschild

Very top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

MB  *****   
RP  90   

1985 Château Mouton Rothschild

Lightly elevated cork; light signs of past seepage; base neck fill; light label condition issue

MB  *****   
RP  90   

1988 Château Mouton Rothschild

Light label condition issue

JS  93   
WS  92   
JR  17+    
MB  ***/*   

1988 Château Mouton Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue; base neck fill; label condition issue

JS  93   
WS  92   
JR  17+    
MB  ***/*   

1982 Château Margaux

Light capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; light label condition issue

RP  98   
JS  97   
ST  96   
WS  94   
JR  18.5   

1983 Château Margaux

Light capsule condition issue; base neck fill

WS  98   
RP  96   
ST  95   
JR  18.5   
MB  */***   

1986 Château Margaux

Capsule condition issue

RP  98   
WS  93   
JR  17+    

1988 Château Margaux

Light capsule condition issue

WS  96   

1988 Château Margaux

Light label condition issue

WS  96   

1989 Château Margaux

WS  97   
RP  90   
JR  17   

1983 Château Latour

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

JR  19   
WS  94   
MB  ****   
4 available
Bid *

1983 Château Latour

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

JR  19   
WS  94   
MB  ****   

1983 Château Latour

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

JR  19   
WS  94   
MB  ****   

1988 Château Latour

Light capsule condition issue

WS  96   
RP  91   
JR  17   

1988 Château Latour

WS  96   
RP  91   
JR  17   

1987 Château Haut-Brion

Light label condition issue

MB  ***   

1980 Château Lynch-Bages

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

1989 Château Lynch-Bages

Light capsule condition issue

DE  *****   
RP  99+    
WS  98   
VN  95   
JR  17.5   

1982 Château Pichon-Longueville-Comtesse-de-Lalande

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

RP  100   
WS  98   
ST  95   
JR  18.5   

1986 Château Pichon-Longueville-Comtesse-de-Lalande

Light capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; base neck fill; label condition issue

DE  *****   
WS  97   
RP  96   

1986 Château Pichon-Longueville-Comtesse-de-Lalande

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

DE  *****   
WS  97   
RP  96