Bordeaux is the world’s biggest source of top quality wines. The 1855 classification can guide you to some luxury Bordeaux wines. In this article you also get tips for some good value affordable ...

For more than a century, the gold standard of world wine was the 1855 classification of the First Growths of Bordeaux. While many regions around the world made wine at that time, France was ...

Before the Universal Exhibition in Paris commenced in 1855 (organized by Napoleon III) a decision was made to classify the wine châteaux of the Bordeaux region. That classification still exists ...

Bordeaux fans are fond of noting that Napoleon himself called for the ranking, but Dewey Markham, the author of the book 1855: A History of the Bordeaux Classification, says it was actually ...

The 1855 Bordeaux Classification still plays a significant role in shaping Bordeaux futures (en primeur) pricing today. Wines from classified estates — especially the First Growths ...

It was sold to Lodi Martin Duffour Dubergier, the mayor of Bordeaux, in 1842, and he elevated it to Grand Cru Exceptionnel status before signing the official 1855 classification a few years later.

GRAPE MIND In ‘1855: A History of the Bordeaux Classification,’ Dewey Markham, Jr., demystified the wines of a region even informed oenophiles can find impenetrable.