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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

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

MB  ***   

1979 Château d'Yquem

375ml

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

WS  93   

1986 Château d'Yquem

Top shoulder fill

RP  98   
WS  95   
JR  17.5   

1986 Château d'Yquem

Light capsule condition issue; very top shoulder fill

RP  98   
WS  95   
JR  17.5   

1986 Château d'Yquem

Elevated cork; light signs of past seepage; very top shoulder fill

RP  98   
WS  95   
JR  17.5   

1986 Château d'Yquem

Very top shoulder fill

RP  98   
WS  95   
JR  17.5   

1986 Château d'Yquem

Light capsule condition issue; top shoulder fill

RP  98   
WS  95   
JR  17.5   

1988 Château d'Yquem

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

RP  99   
JR  19.5   
WS  94   

1995 Château d'Yquem

WA  95   
JR  18.5   
MB  ***/*   

1995 Château d'Yquem

Lightly elevated cork

WA  95   
JR  18.5   
MB  ***/*   

1998 Château d'Yquem

Lightly elevated cork; light label condition issue

ST  95   
RP  91   
JR  18   

1998 Château d'Yquem

Light label condition issue

ST  95   
RP  91   
JR  18   

2019 Château d'Yquem

VN  95+    
JR  17   

1981 Château Rieussec

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

WS  90   
MB  ***   

2009 Château Rieussec

JS  98   
WA  97   
VN  97   
WS  95   
CT  93.9   
JR  18   

2014 Château Rieussec

Light label condition issue

WA  95-97   
JS  95   
VN  94   
WE  94   
JR  17   

2014 Château Rieussec

WA  95-97   
JS  95   
VN  94   
WE  94   
JR  17   

2015 Château Rieussec

JS  99   
WA  96+    
WE  96   
WS  94   
VN  94   
JR  18.5   

2015 Château Rieussec R de Rieussec

JS  91-92   
VN  90   

2010 Château Suduiraut

375ml

Light label condition issue

WA  94-96   
WS  93   
VN  92-95   

2014 Château Suduiraut

375ml

VN  96   
WA  95-97   
JS  94   
WS  93   

2015 Château Suduiraut

375ml

JD  99   
VN  97   
WA  95-97   

1983 Château Lafaurie-Peyraguey

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

WS  91   
MB  ****   

1989 Château Lafaurie-Peyraguey

Base neck fill; heavy label condition issue

WS  94