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Wine: the picrocholine wars of Saint-Émilion

2021-07-16T12:52:41.705Z


SURVEY - By renouncing the classification of the grands crus of the flagship appellation of the right bank of Bordeaux, Château Cheval Blanc and Château Ausone caused a new earthquake in the village. Who will benefit from this departure?


Shine by its absence.

Maybe this is it.

When the Saint-Émilion classification application closed on June 30, two leading domains did not return their copy.

Château Ausone, owned by the Vauthier family, and Château Cheval Blanc, co-owned by the Frère family and LVMH, passed the exam.

Another hard blow for this ten-year track record.

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Since the first classification in 1955, Ausone and Cheval Blanc - joined by Château Angélus and Château Pavie in 2012 - have formed the benchmark duo of the emblematic appellation of the right bank of Bordeaux.

Obviously, the renunciation of the two gifted destabilizes the institution, a bit as if Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic jointly announced their withdrawal from the final stages of Roland Garros, explaining that the rules of the tournament no longer suit them.

A "damn document"

Caprice?

Tired of these cumbersome procedures?

Refused to enter again into a circle of endless quarrels?

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Source: lefigaro

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