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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.

1990 Château Latour

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

WS  100   
ST  98   
RP  95+    
JR  19   
WA  94   

1990 Château Latour

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

WS  100   
ST  98   
RP  95+    
JR  19   
WA  94   

2000 Château Latour

Light label condition issue

WS  100   
RP  98   
ST  97   
JR  18.5   

2000 Château Latour

Capsule condition issue; label condition issue

WS  100   
RP  98   
ST  97   
JR  18.5   

2000 Château Latour

Lightly elevated cork; light label condition issue

WS  100   
RP  98   
ST  97   
JR  18.5   

2000 Château Latour

Light capsule condition issue; base neck fill; light label condition issue; released from the Chateau cellar in 2016

WS  100   
RP  98   
ST  97   
JR  18.5   

2000 Château Latour

WS  100   
RP  98   
ST  97   
JR  18.5   

2003 Château Latour

RP  100   
WS  98   
ST  97   
WE  97   
JR  18   

2004 Château Latour

RP  95   
WS  95   
ST  94   
JR  15.5   

2005 Château Latour

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

JS  100   
WS  99   
ST  98   
JR  19.5   
RP  96   

2005 Château Latour

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

JS  100   
WS  99   
ST  98   
JR  19.5   
RP  96   

2000 Château Latour

12-bottle Lot, Wood Case

Light case condition issue

WS  100   
RP  98   
ST  97   
JR  18.5   

1959 Château Haut-Brion

Capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; 4.5 cm ullage; label condition issue

JR  20   
MB  *****   
WS  98   
RP  93   
ST  93   
CC  17.5   

2000 Château Haut-Brion

Light label condition issue

RP  99   
ST  96   
WE  96   
WS  94   
JR  18   

2000 Château Haut-Brion

Light label condition issue

RP  99   
ST  96   
WE  96   
WS  94   
JR  18   

2000 Château Haut-Brion

Light label condition issue

RP  99   
ST  96   
WE  96   
WS  94   
JR  18   

2000 Château Haut-Brion

6-bottle Lot

Light label condition issue

RP  99   
ST  96   
WE  96   
WS  94   
JR  18   

2000 Château Haut-Brion

12-bottle Lot

See item details for bottle notes

RP  99   
ST  96   
WE  96   
WS  94   
JR  18   

2000 Château Haut-Brion

12-bottle Lot

Light label condition issue

RP  99   
ST  96   
WE  96   
WS  94   
JR  18   

2015 Château Haut-Brion

6-bottle Lot, Wood Case

WA  100   
WS  98   
JS  98   

2020 Château Ducru-Beaucaillou, Château Leoville-Las-Cases, Château Pichon-Longueville-Comtesse-de-Lalande, Cos d'Estournel

4-bottle Horizontal

1988 Cos d'Estournel

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

WS  95   
VN  91   
JR  17.5   
MB  **/**   

2017-2020 Cos d'Estournel

4-bottle Vertical

See item details for bottle notes

2008 Château Cheval-Blanc

WA  96   
VN  95   
ST  94+    
RP  93   
WS  93   
JR  16.5+    

1971 Petrus

Capsule condition issue; very top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

RP  95   
WS  94   
MB  ****