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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 Château d'Yquem

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

MB  ****   

1966 Château d'Yquem

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

MB  ****   

1966 Château d'Yquem

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

MB  ****   

1967 Château d'Yquem

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

WS  100   
MB  *****   
CT  96.6   
RP  96   
WA  93   
JR  18.5   

1971 Château d'Yquem

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

WA  97   
WS  93   
JR  16   
MB  ****   

1975 Château d'Yquem

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

MB  *****   
RP  99   
CT  96.5   
WS  95   

1983 Château d'Yquem

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

RP  96   
CT  95.3   
WS  92   
JR  18.5   

1983 Château d'Yquem

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

RP  96   
CT  95.3   
WS  92   
JR  18.5   

1984 Château d'Yquem

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

2000 Château d'Yquem

WA  90   
JR  17   
4 available
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2001 Château d'Yquem

RP  100   
WS  100   
JS  100   
JR  19.5   
CT  97.8   
WS  #10 of 2005   
12 available
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2001 Château d'Yquem

RP  100   
WS  100   
JS  100   
JR  19.5   
CT  97.8   
WS  #10 of 2005   
2 available
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2005 Château d'Yquem

375ml

WA  97   
WS  97   
JS  95   
JR  18.5   
5 available
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2009 Château d'Yquem

Elevated cork

WA  100   
WS  98   
JS  98   
CT  98   
VN  97-100   
JR  19+    

2013 Château d'Yquem

375ml

WS  98   
JS  98   
CT  96.2   
WA  95-97   
JR  19+    
VN  93-96   
11 available
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2014 Château d'Yquem

1.5ltr

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

WS  98   
JS  98   
WA  96-98   
JR  19   
CT  95.2   

2014 Château d'Yquem

1.5ltr

WS  98   
JS  98   
WA  96-98   
JR  19   
CT  95.2   

2001 Château d'Yquem

12-bottle Lot, Wood Case, 375ml

See item details for bottle notes; Case condition issue

RP  100   
WS  100   
JS  100   
JR  19.5   
CT  97.8   
WS  #10 of 2005   

2001 Château d'Yquem

12-bottle Lot, Wood Case, 375ml

See item details for bottle notes

RP  100   
WS  100   
JS  100   
JR  19.5   
CT  97.8   
WS  #10 of 2005   

2001 Château d'Yquem

12-bottle Lot, Wood Case

See item details for bottle notes; Light case condition issue

RP  100   
WS  100   
JS  100   
JR  19.5   
CT  97.8   
WS  #10 of 2005   

2020 Château d'Yquem

6-bottle Lot, Wood Case, 375ml

VN  97   
WS  95   
WA  94   
JR  17   

2015 Château d'Yquem Ygrec "Y"

1.5ltr

Lightly elevated cork

WS  95   
CT  94.1   
WA  92   

2015 Carmes de Rieussec

375ml

Light label condition issue

VN  93   
WA  91   
WS  90   

1983 Château Rieussec

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

WS  94   
RP  92   
JR  18   

2005 Château Rieussec

Light label condition issue

RP  96   
WS  96   
ST  93   
JS  93   
2 available
Bid *