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Did you know ...

• the Bordeaux winery Château Quinault was planned for destruction to build a new housing development?
• the Bordeaux wine estate Château Beau-Séjour Bécot was demoted in the Saint-Émilion classification amidst controversy, only to be later re-instated?
• the history of Rioja wine has been greatly influenced by the Bordeaux wine industry with many Riojan bodegas benefiting from the influx of Bordeaux winemakers into the region following the phylloxera epidemic of the 1860s?
• the fifth growth Bordeaux wine estate of Château Cantemerle was not included in the original maps from the Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855?
• while neighboring Bordeaux estates were still looking for a cure to heal their infected grapevines, Château Pavie-Macquin was one of the first to begin grafting phylloxera resistant American rootstock on their vines?
• nearly a decade before the official Bordeaux wine classification was released, the directory Cocks & Féret published their own ranking of Bordeaux wine estates?
• historic Bordeaux wine estate Château d'Angludet was derelict after World War II, but its fortunes were reversed when wine producer Peter Sichel noticed it during an afternoon stroll?
• a Catalan wine was secretly added to the classified Bordeaux wine category of the 1979 Gault Millau Wine Olympics and won?
• wine writer Alexis Lichine developed a separate ranking of Bordeaux wine estates, including both Left and Right Banks, while advocating a revision of the original 1855 classification?
• a replica of the château from the Bordeaux wine estate Château Beauregard was constructed for the Guggenheim family on Long Island, New York?
• after selecting the wine to make their Grand vin many Bordeaux estates like Château Margaux will use the remaining cuvee to make a second wine?
• during the later stages of World War II, the Bordeaux wine estate Château Lascombes served as a headquarters for the Allied forces?
• Bordeaux wine merchants in the Middle Ages, concerned about the competition from nearby regions, prohibited trading access to Bordeaux until most of their wine was sold?