Cru Bourgeois
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The Cru Bourgeois classification lists some of the châteaux from the Médoc that were not included in the 1855 Classification of Crus Classés, or Classed Growths. Notionally, Cru Bourgeois is a level b
Three Cru Bourgeois wines. In the 2003 classification two were Crus Bourgeois Exceptionnels, Château Chasse-Spleen and Château Poujeaux, and one a Cru Bourgeois Supérieur, Château Caronne Sainte-Gemme.
A bottle from 2000 vintage
Château Malescasse, Cru Bourgeois of Haut-Medoc AOC from the pre-2003 classification
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
Cru Bourgeois
…The Cru Bourgeois classification lists some of the châteaux from the Médoc that were not included in the 1855 Classification of Crus Classés, or Classed Growths. Notionally, Cru Bourgeois is a level below Cru Classé, but still of high quality (formerly there were additional…
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