Haut-Médoc AOC
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Haut-Médoc is an Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée for wine in the Bordeaux wine region of southwestern France, on the Left Bank of the Gironde estuary. Covering a large part of the viticultural strip o
Vineyard in the Haut Medoc
A Cru Bourgeois wine from the Haut-Médoc.
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
Haut-Médoc AOC
…all but six of the 61 are located within the AOCs Margaux, Saint-Julien, Pauillac and Saint-Estèphe), but several were included in the classification Cru Bourgeois. For most of its history, the Haut-Médoc was a vast region of salt marshes used for animal grazing rather than viticulture. In the 17th century, Dutch…
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