The best way to make sense of this is to break it out by region. A quick refresher on the Bordeaux Classification of 1855 helps to make sense of the various cru designations throughout Bordeaux.

Who else could have rewritten the supposedly unalterable 1855 Classification of Bordeaux to join the select inner circle of first-growths? Baron Philippe de Rothschild was not the kind of man who ...

Bordeaux’s 1855 Classification, which established a five-tiered system of Grands Crus Classées, or growths, has remained relatively unchanged. In recent years, the quality of several second-growths ...