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Contents What Price Bordeaux? 1 Terroir and Typicité The Origins of Regulation Location, Location, Location The Appellation Contrôlée Pyramid A Tale of Two Bordeaux Restricting the Yield Typicité: Interplay of Terroir and Cépage The Bordeaux Blend Bordeaux from Top to Bottom 2 A Sense of Place The Origins of Wine Production in Bordeaux The English Takeover Anglo-French Relations The Growth of the Médoc From the Cru to the Château The First “Clarets” A Spreading International Reputation Settlement of the Right Bank Place and Quality 3 The Importance of Being Classified How Good was the Classification? It All Depends What You Mean by "Official" Commercial Classifications Define the Médoc Other Classifications Imitate 1855 Classifications and the Law The Myth of the Classification 4 Wine in the Time of Classification The Negociant’s Skill A Pale Imitation Contraction and Expansion And 150 Years Later… Next Page