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Reading the Label

Four tiers, six hundred premiers crus, and who actually made it

Régionale · Village · Premier Cru · Grand Cru · 4 chapters · 11 min read

Four tiers, six hundred premiers crus, and who actually made the wine.

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The Four Tiers

  1. 01Régionale to Grand CruOn what a classification can promise, and what it cannot.
  2. 02The Premier Cru RuleOn reading the tier of any bottle from the shape of its name.

Whose Wine Is It

  1. 03Domaine, Négociant, Micro-négoceOn the difference between growing wine and buying it, and why it narrowed.
  2. 04Monopoles and the Divided VineyardOn a wall around fifty hectares, and the eighty people inside it.