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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  *****   

1980 Château d'Yquem

375ml

Label condition issue

RP  93   

1981 Château d'Yquem

Signs of past seepage; base neck fill; light label condition issue

RP  90   

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   

1986 Château d'Yquem

Base neck fill

RP  98   
WS  95   
JR  17.5   

1988 Château d'Yquem

Lightly depressed cork; base neck fill

RP  99   
JR  19.5   
WS  94   

1988 Château d'Yquem

Base neck fill

RP  99   
JR  19.5   
WS  94   

1988 Château d'Yquem

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

RP  99   
JR  19.5   
WS  94   

1988 Château d'Yquem

Lightly depressed cork; base neck fill; light label condition issue

RP  99   
JR  19.5   
WS  94   

2009 Château d'Yquem

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

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

1964 Château Calon-Segur

Light capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; top shoulder fill; label condition issue; light writing on label

1996 Château Calon-Segur

Lightly elevated cork; light label condition issue

ST  93+    
RP  92   
WS  90   
JR  17   

2000 Château Calon-Segur

Light capsule condition issue

WS  93   
RP  91+    
ST  90+    
JR  17   

2003 Château Calon-Segur

Light label condition issue

WS  95   
RP  94   
WE  94   
ST  92-94   

2005 Château Calon-Segur

RP  93   
WS  93   
ST  92+    

2005 Château Calon-Segur

Light capsule condition issue; signs of past seepage; light label condition issue

RP  93   
WS  93   
ST  92+    

2005 Château Calon-Segur

Label condition issue

RP  93   
WS  93   
ST  92+    

2009 Château Calon-Segur

Light label condition issue

RP  94+    
VN  94   
WS  93-96   
JR  18   

2013 Château Calon-Segur

Light label condition issue

WA  91   
WS  90   
VN  88-91   
JR  15.5   

2015 Château Calon-Segur

Light label condition issue

WE  96   
JS  95   
VN  94   
WA  93   
WS  93   
JD  93   
JR  16   

2019 Château Calon-Segur

VN  98   
JD  97   
WS  96   
JS  96   
WA  93   
JR  18