Bordeaux Grand Cru Classe
The Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855 resulted from the 1855 Exposition Universelle de Paris, when Emperor Napoleon III requested a classification system for France's best Bordeaux wines that were to be on display for visitors from around the world.
The wines were ranked in importance from first to fifth growths (crus). All of the red wines that made it on the list came from the Médoc region. For red wines, the 1855 classification, revised in 1973, has one cru from Graves and 60 from the Médoc, distributed as follows: First Growths (Premiers Crus), Second Growths (Deuxiémes Crus), Third Growths (Troisièmes Crus), Fourth Growths (Quatrièmes Crus), Fifth Growths (Cinquièmes Crus)