In Bordeaux, a number of classification systems help consumers identify top producers. The first and most famous is the 1855 Classification. It ranked some five-dozen estates in the Médoc and Graves.

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 ...

St.-Émilion Classification. The most famous wine classification is the 1855 Bordeaux Classification, which only lists wines located on the Left Bank, such as Château Lafite Rothschild.

Labeling wines isn't getting any easier in St.-Emilion. Just a week after a Bordeaux court struck down the Right Bank appellation's 2006 classification as unfair, the French senate intervened, ...

Graves is an appellation within the Bordeaux wine region in southwestern France. It gets its name from the gravelly, rocky, pebbly soil, which turns out to be great for growing wine grapes. It’s ...

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 &#82… ...

Bitter tears are falling in some glasses of ruby red Saint-Emilion wines after a Bordeaux court confirmed an earlier ruling throwing out the latest classification of one of France's best known ...

Amart is already producing some excellent red and white Graves, and for a bird’s-eye view of the wine route, he offers to fly guests in his small plane for a half-hour tour (at a cost of just ...