In doing so it joins two of other top ranked châteaux that dropped out of the same classification last year—Château Cheval Blanc and Château Ausone—although for different reasons. Considering that ...

The French often say, “Why have something that is easy when it could be difficult?” I heard that a few times during a recent visit. Though I would swap “difficult” with “intentionally confusing” when ...

Reporting from Saint-Emilion, France — Saint-Émilion in France’s Bordeaux region might have the world’s best wine classification system. It certainly has one of the most contentious, having prompted ...

The huge Bordeaux wine region of southwest France has 60 appellations and five classification systems. Whereas classification systems for different wines can be linear and hierarchical, the ...