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Bordeaux wine official
classifications, 1855 Classification, Graves , Sauternes Barsac, Saint
Emilion, Medoc's Classified Growth Bordeaux wineries and chateaux classification
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1855 Classification, Medoc's Classified Growth
Bordeaux wines - the
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For obvious commercial reasons, many French wine corporations
have expressed the need to put systems in place that are used to rate
the quality of the producers within a guaranteed
vintage areas (appellations). Therefore
several official classifications were progressively published over time.
Such rankings were initially meant to better define the intrinsic value
of the wineries. If a number of historical classifications such as the
famous
Medoc Classified Growths classification or the Sauternes-Barsac
classification which were both implemented more than 150 years ago in
1855, others rankings were drawn up more recently, i.e. the 1959 Graves,
Pessac-Léognan Classification. On the other hand, the
Classified Growths of Saint-Emilion, the Crus Bourgois
Classification and the so called Crus Artisans Classification are all
regularly reassessed and probably reflect to the consumer a more
accurate image. It should also be noted that the prestigious
Pomerol area has never been subject to any official tentative
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