Wine with Leslie Williams: All about Cru Classé Bordeaux
Last week I wrote about natural wines which all the cool kids love, but this week I’m writing about the opposite, as the cool kids have zero interest in cru classé Bordeaux.
The cru classé system was created for the Paris Exhibition of 1855 by wine merchants of Bordeaux and strangely, that classification holds to this day although some 2ème cru classé wines sell at fifth-growth prices and vice versa (e.g. Lascombes and Lynch Bages).
