The Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855 resulted from the 1855 Exposition Universelle de Paris, when Emperor Napoleon III requested a classification system for France's best Bordeaux wines t
Châteaux of Bordeaux
Pauillac is home to three of the five Bordeaux's first growth wines (classification of 1855)
Château Lafite-Rothschild
Château Léoville-Las Cases
Château Lafite Rothschild
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Château Lafite Rothschild is a French wine estate of Bordeaux wine, located in Pauillac in France, owned by members of the Rothschild family since the 19th century, and rated as a First Growth under t
Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855
…brokers on April 18, 1855, followed by the modern names, as the use of "second cru" for red wines and "deuxième cru" for white wines. Château Lafite, now Château Lafite Rothschild, Pauillac Château Latour, Pauillac…
Château Lafite Rothschild in Pauillac, Médoc region
Historical postcard showing the cellar with large vats for wine
View towards the château from the vineyard
Château Lafite Rothschild wine label from the 1971 vintage