Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Britt & Per Karlsson write on wine and wine travel, based in Paris This article is more than 10 years old. Bordeaux is the world’s ...

This year marks the 150 th anniversary of the 1855 Bordeaux classifications—the five-tiered ranking of the region’s top châteaux that has long been the most prestigious pecking order in all of wine.

An illustrated travel guide to the finest wine châteaus of Bordeaux's Grands Crus Classés 1855 classification. This chic, richly illustrated, and practical guide features thirty-five wine châteaus in ...

Over the last couple of months, I have had many readers wanting another column deciphering the confusing classification of wines in the world. The 1855 Classification of red wines of the Gironde ...

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 considered ...

As early as the 1300s, attempts were made to classify the vineyards of France according to the quality of their wines, but not until the 1855 Exposition Universelle in Paris did wine brokers succeed ...

The historic wine region of Bordeaux has been in a pickle for some years. Back in the great old days, once upon a time, every wine drinker everywhere—beginner or veteran geek—thought first of Bordeaux ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Château Lynch-Bages is arguably the greatest success story Bordeaux has seen since the second world war. Once a ...