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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.

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   

1986 Château Mouton Rothschild

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

RP  100   
JS  100   
WS  99   
ST  95   
JR  18.5   
MB  **/***   

1986 Château Mouton Rothschild

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

RP  100   
JS  100   
WS  99   
ST  95   
JR  18.5   
MB  **/***   

1988 Château Mouton Rothschild

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

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

1988 Château Mouton Rothschild

Light label condition issue

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

1991 Château Mouton Rothschild

Label condition issue

MB  ***   

1995 Château Mouton Rothschild

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

WS  96   
RP  95   
VN  95   
JR  18.5   
2 available
Bid *

1995 Château Mouton Rothschild

WS  96   
RP  95   
VN  95   
JR  18.5   

1995 Château Mouton Rothschild

WS  96   
RP  95   
VN  95   
JR  18.5   

1995 Château Mouton Rothschild

Light label condition issue

WS  96   
RP  95   
VN  95   
JR  18.5   

1996 Château Mouton Rothschild

Base neck fill; label condition issue

WS  96   
VN  96   
RP  94   
JR  18   

1996 Château Mouton Rothschild

Lightly elevated cork; light label condition issue

WS  96   
VN  96   
RP  94   
JR  18   

1999 Château Mouton Rothschild

Light label condition issue

WA  92   
VN  92   
WS  91   
ST  90   
JR  16   

2003 Château Mouton Rothschild

RP  95+    
WS  94   
WE  94   
ST  93   
JR  17.5   

2004 Château Mouton Rothschild

WS  93   
RP  92+    
ST  92   
JR  18   

1993 Château Mouton Rothschild Balthus

Light label condition issue

RP  90   
WS  90   
JS  90   
JR  16.5   

1993 Château Mouton Rothschild Balthus

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

RP  90   
WS  90   
JS  90   
JR  16.5   

1993 Château Mouton Rothschild Balthus

Lightly elevated cork

RP  90   
WS  90   
JS  90   
JR  16.5   

2018 Le Petit Mouton de Mouton Rothschild

JS  97   
JD  94+    
WE  93   
WS  92   
VN  92   
JR  17.5   

1964 Carruades de Lafite

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

1967 Carruades de Lafite

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

1988 Carruades de Lafite

Light capsule condition issue; very top shoulder fill

WS  91   
2 available
Bid

1961 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; top shoulder fill; label condition issue

MB  *****   
WS  94   
VN  91   
JS  90   

1961 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; mid shoulder fill; label condition issue

MB  *****   
WS  94   
VN  91   
JS  90