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Cru Classé
Cru Classé ("classified growth") refers to Bordeaux's chateau-level classification systems, the best known being the 1855 Classification commissioned by Napoleon III for the Exposition Universelle de Paris.
It ranked 61 Médoc red-wine chateaux (plus one Graves estate, Château Haut-Brion) into five tiers — First through Fifth Growth — based on the trading price of their wines at the time, and separately ranked Sauternes/Barsac sweet-wine estates into Premier Cru Supérieur (Château d'Yquem alone), Premier Cru, and Deuxième Cru.
The 1855 list has been amended only once (Mouton Rothschild's 1973 promotion to First Growth) and otherwise remains frozen.
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