Margaux Forbidden | Gilles Du Pontavice

Author: Gilles du PontaviceFor the Universal Exhibition of 1855, the Bordeaux Wine Brokers Company was tasked with drawing up the list of classified growths. This list, known as the 1855 Classification, had no official pretensions. However, it has become the benchmark classification. As for red wines, it includes one growth in Pessac, south of Bordeaux, with all the others located in the Médoc region: one in Ludon, one in Macau, one in Arsac, two in Labarde, eight in Cantenac, ten in Margaux, nine in Saint-Julien, three in Saint-Laurent, sixteen in Pauillac, and five in Saint-Estèphe. That makes a total of fifty-seven classified growths in 1855. This book tells the story of the fifty-eighth classified growth.