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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.

2003 Château Pontet-Canet

Lightly elevated cork

RP  95   
WS  94   
ST  93   
WE  91   
JR  16   
WS  #39 of 2006   

2003 Château Pontet-Canet

1.5ltr

RP  95   
WS  94   
ST  93   
WE  91   
JR  16   
WS  #39 of 2006   

2003 Château Pontet-Canet

1.5ltr

RP  95   
WS  94   
ST  93   
WE  91   
JR  16   
WS  #39 of 2006   

2003 Château Pontet-Canet

1.5ltr

RP  95   
WS  94   
ST  93   
WE  91   
JR  16   
WS  #39 of 2006   

2005 Château Pontet-Canet

Light label condition issue

RP  97+    
JD  97+    
WS  96   
ST  95   
JR  17   
WS  #7 of 2008   
2 available
Bid *

2005 Château Pontet-Canet

RP  97+    
JD  97+    
WS  96   
ST  95   
JR  17   
WS  #7 of 2008   

2008 Château Pontet-Canet

RP  96   
JD  96   
WE  95   
ST  94   
WS  92   
VN  92   
JR  16   
4 available
Bid *

2009 Château Pontet-Canet

3.0ltr

Light capsule condition issue; depressed cork; light label condition issue

RP  100   
JS  98   
WS  96   
ST  96   
JR  17.5+    

2014 Château Pontet-Canet

JD  96   
VN  95   
WA  94   
WS  93   
2 available
Bid *

2016 Château Pontet-Canet

Light label condition issue

VN  99   
WA  98   
JD  98+    
WS  95   
JR  17.5   
5 available
Bid *

2016 Château Pontet-Canet

Light label condition issue

VN  99   
WA  98   
JD  98+    
WS  95   
JR  17.5   
2 available
Bid *

2016 Château Pontet-Canet

Light label condition issue

VN  99   
WA  98   
JD  98+    
WS  95   
JR  17.5   

2020 Château Pontet-Canet

JS  98   
WE  97   
JD  97+    
VN  95+    
WA  92+    
JR  17.5   

2010 Château Pontet-Canet

12-bottle Lot, Wood Case

RP  100   
JS  100   
JD  98+    
WS  97   
ST  95+    
JR  18   

2010 Château Pontet-Canet

12-bottle Lot, Wood Case

See item details for bottle notes

RP  100   
JS  100   
JD  98+    
WS  97   
ST  95+    
JR  18   

1966 Château d'Yquem

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

MB  ****   

1983 Château d'Yquem

Light capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; base neck fill; label condition issue

RP  96   
WS  92   
JR  18.5   

1996 Château d'Yquem

Lightly elevated cork

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

2019 Château d'Yquem

Light label condition issue

VN  95+    
JR  17   

2020 Château d'Yquem

375ml

VN  97   
WS  95   
WA  94   
JR  17   
2 available
Bid *

1983 Château d'Yquem

1-bottle Lot, Wood Case, 6.0ltr

Capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; light signs of past seepage; label condition issue; Light case condition issue

RP  96   
WS  92   
JR  18.5   

1990 Château d'Yquem

12-bottle Lot, Wood Case

Case condition issue

RP  99   
WS  95   
ST  94   
JR  18   

2009 Château d'Yquem

12-bottle Lot, Wood Case

See item details for bottle notes; Light case condition issue

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

1916 Château La Mission Haut Brion

Capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; heavy label condition issue; previously refurbished

1947 Château La Mission Haut Brion

Heavy capsule condition issue; heavy signs of past seepage; mid shoulder fill; label condition issue

RP  95   
WS  95