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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.

1943 Château d'Yquem

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

MB  *****   

1961 Château d'Yquem

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

MB  ***   
10 available
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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   

1967 Château d'Yquem

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

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

1986 Château d'Yquem

Light label condition issue

RP  98   
WS  95   
JR  17.5   
2 available
Bid *

1988 Château d'Yquem

375ml

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

RP  99   
JR  19.5   
WS  94   
2 available
Bid *

1990 Château d'Yquem

375ml

RP  99   
WS  95   
CT  95.4   
ST  94   
JR  18   
6 available
Bid *

1990 Château d'Yquem

375ml

Light label condition issue

RP  99   
WS  95   
CT  95.4   
ST  94   
JR  18   
2 available
Bid *

1990 Château d'Yquem

375ml

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

RP  99   
WS  95   
CT  95.4   
ST  94   
JR  18   

1990 Château d'Yquem

Lightly elevated cork; light label condition issue

RP  99   
WS  95   
CT  95.4   
ST  94   
JR  18   
3 available
Bid *

1990 Château d'Yquem

Light label condition issue

RP  99   
WS  95   
CT  95.4   
ST  94   
JR  18   
2 available
Bid *

1990 Château d'Yquem

RP  99   
WS  95   
CT  95.4   
ST  94   
JR  18   

1995 Château d'Yquem

Base neck fill

WA  95   
JR  18.5   
MB  ***/*   

1996 Château d'Yquem

Light label condition issue

DE  *****   
WS  96   
RP  95   
JR  18.5   

1999 Château d'Yquem

375ml

Light label condition issue

RP  92   
JR  17.5   
2 available
Bid *

2001 Château d'Yquem

375ml

RP  100   
WS  100   
JS  100   
JR  19.5   
CT  97.8   
WS  #10 of 2005   
3 available
Bid *

2001 Château d'Yquem

Lightly elevated cork

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

2001 Château d'Yquem

Light label condition issue

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

2001 Château d'Yquem

Lightly elevated cork; light label condition issue

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

2009 Château d'Yquem

375ml

WA  100   
WS  98   
JS  98   
CT  98   
VN  97-100   
JR  19+    
9 available
Bid *

2013 Château d'Yquem

WS  98   
JS  98   
CT  96.2   
WA  95-97   
JR  19+    
VN  93-96   
2 available
Bid *

2015 Château d'Yquem

375ml

WA  100   
JS  99   
WS  98   
CT  96.5   
12 available
Bid *

2016 Château d'Yquem Ygrec "Y"

3.0ltr

WS  96   
WA  92+    
JR  17+    

1986 Château Rieussec

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

RP  91   
5 available
Bid *

1986 Château Rieussec

Light capsule condition issue; label condition issue

RP  91