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In the year 1855, dozens of châteaux in the Bordeaux region of southwest France were classified according to the quality of wines they produced. Yet few wine lovers know that during that same ...
Lots of Italian wines have letters on their labels as a part of Italy’s wine classification system, wine site Decanter says. These are: Luke said that if you see “IGT on the label, it comes ...
The broadening of the fine wine market beyond Bordeaux to not only Burgundy in France, but also Italy, Spain, the U.S., and beyond, is evident in Liv-ex’s latest “classification,” the London ...
The Crus Bourgeois wine classification of Bordeaux in France—originally initiated in 1932—was relaunched in February this year on the date of 02/20/2020. It covers only red wines produced in ...
But the 18th century revolution in wine quality took hold first and most firmly in the Médoc. Reaction to the classification was heated. The courtiers' original list ranked the châteaus by quality ...
In 2013, a group of international wine experts including viticulture specialists and educators conducted the first wave of the classification, judging participating wineries by quality of wine, ...
Varying opinions aside, the ongoing discourse about gender binaries raises questions about whether they have a place in wine. Does a masculine-vs.-feminine classification system help people find ...