The Medoc
Official Classification of 1855
This classification was made in 1855 by a group of wine brokers in Bordeaux, who divided the 62 leading vineyards into five ranks, and rated the vineyards in descending order within each rank. Numbers in parentheses represent an updating of the list based on the best modern opinion of authorities in Bordeaux; each number corresponds to the division of the classification to which, it is now felt, the vineyard would belong if reclassified today. For example, Château Palmer would move from third growth to second; Château Kirwan would move from third to fifth. The symbol [X] means the vineyard no longer exists; the symbol [*] means the wine is no longer château-bottled; [B] indicates that the vineyard should be reduced to crus bourgeois, below the fifth rank but a highly honourable classification in itself.
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| FIRST GROWTHS - Premiers Crus Classé |
| Vineyard |
|
Commune |
| Château Lafite |
: |
Pauillac |
| Château Margaux |
: |
Margaux |
| Château Latour |
: |
Pauillac |
| Château Haut-Brion |
: |
Pessac (district of Graves) |
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| SECOND GROWTHS - Deuxièmes Crus |
| Vineyard |
|
Commune |
| Château Mouton-Rothschild (1) |
: |
Pauillac |
| Château Rausan-Ségla |
: |
Margaux |
| Château Rauzan Gassies (3) |
: |
Margaux |
| Château Léoville-Las-Cases |
: |
St.-Julien |
| Château Léoville-Poyferre |
: |
St.-Julien |
| Château Léoville-Barton |
: |
St.-Julien |
| Château Durfort-Vivens (4) |
: |
Margaux |
| Château Gruaud-Larose |
: |
St.-Julien |
| Château Lascombes |
: |
Margaux |
| Château Brane-Cantenac |
: |
Cantenac-Margaux |
| Château Pichon-Longueville |
: |
Pauillac |
| Château Pichon-Longueville-Lalande |
: |
PauillacPichon-Longueville-Lalande |
| Château Ducru-Beaucaillou |
: |
St.-Julien |
| Château Cos d'Estournel |
: |
St.-Estephe |
| Château Montrose |
: |
St.-Estephe |
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| THIRD GROWTHS - Troisièmes Crus |
| Vineyard |
|
Commune |
| Château Kirwan (5)* |
: |
Cantenac-Margaux |
| Château d'Issan (4) |
: |
Cantenac-Margaux |
| Château Lagrange (4) |
: |
St.-Julien |
| Château Langoa (4)* |
: |
St.-Julien |
| Château Giscours |
: |
Labarde |
| Château Malescot-St. Exupéry |
: |
Margaux |
| Château Cantenac-Brown (5) |
: |
Cantenac-Margaux |
| Château Boyd-Cantenac |
: |
Margaux |
| Château Palmer (2) |
: |
Cantenac-Margaux |
| Château La Lagune |
: |
Ludon |
| Château Desmirail (X) |
: |
Margaux |
| Château Calon-Ségur |
: |
St.-EstèphePichon-Longueville-Lalande |
| Château Ferrière |
: |
Margaux |
| Château Marquis d'Alesme-Becker (4) |
: |
Margaux |
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| FOURTH GROWTHS - Quatrièmes Crus |
| Vineyard |
|
Commune |
| Château St. Pierre-Sevaistre+ |
: |
St.-Julien |
| Château St. Pierre-Bontemps+ |
: |
St.-Julien |
| Château Talbot (3) |
: |
St.-Julien |
| Château Branaire-Ducru |
: |
St.-Julien |
| Château Duhart-Milon (3) |
: |
Paulliac |
| Château Pouget (5) |
: |
Cantenac-Margaux |
| Château La Tour-Carnet |
: |
St.-Laurent |
| Château Rochet (5) |
: |
St.-Estèphe |
| Château Beychevelle (2) |
: |
St.-Julien |
| Château Prieuré-Lichine |
: |
Cantenac-Margaux |
| Château Marquis de Terme (5) |
: |
Margaux |
| + Now merged as Château Pierre |
|
Pichon-Longueville-Lalande |
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| FIFTH GROWTHS - Cinquièmes Crus |
| Vineyard |
|
Commune |
| Château Pontet-Canet (4)* |
: |
Pauillac |
| Château Batailley |
: |
Pauillac |
| Château Haut-Batailley |
: |
Pauillac |
| Château Léoville-Las-Cases |
: |
St.-Julien |
| Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste (4) |
: |
Pauillac |
| Château Grand-Puy-Ducasse |
: |
Pauillac |
| Château Durfort-Vivens (4) |
: |
Margaux |
| Château Lynch-Bages (4) |
: |
Pauillac |
| Château Lynch-Moussas (B) |
: |
Pauillac |
| Château Dauzac |
: |
Labarde |
| Château Mouton Baron Philippe+ (4) |
: |
Pauillac |
| Château du Tertre (B) |
: |
ArsacPichon-Longueville-Lalande |
| Château Haut-Bages-Libéral |
: |
Pauillac |
| Château Pédesclaux (B) |
: |
Pauillac |
| Château Belgrave |
: |
St.-Laurent |
| Château Camensac (B) |
: |
St.-Laurent |
| Château Cos Labory (4) |
: |
St.-Estèphe |
| Château Clerc-Milon |
: |
Pauillac |
| Château Croizet Bages |
: |
Pauillac |
| Château Cantermerle (3) |
: |
Macau |
| + Called Château Mouton d'Armailhacq until 1956 |
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| The following Médoc châteaux, listed in alphabetical order, are selected from among the many vineyards of the crus bourgeois because they have proved so outstanding over the past decades that they deserve to be ranked with the fifth growths of the 1855 classification. |
| Vineyard |
|
Commune |
| Château Angludet |
: |
Cantenac-Margaux |
| Château Bel-Air-Marquis-d'Aligre |
: |
Soussans-Margaux |
| Château Chasse-Spleen |
: |
Moulis |
| Château Fourcas-Dupré |
: |
Listrac |
| Château Gloria |
: |
St.-Julien |
| Château Paveil |
: |
Soussans-Margaux |
| Château de Pez |
: |
St.-Estèphe |
| Château Phélan-Ségur |
: |
St.-Estéphe |
| Château Siran |
: |
Labarde-Margaux |
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|
Pichon-Longueville-Lalande |
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