In Bordeaux, Premier (or premier grand cru classé) is the best of the best, the topmost of five formal designations (refresh your French vocabulary by looking up how to count from one to five).

Bourgogne includes 84 distinct appellations, divided into Régional, Village (including Premier Cru) and Grand Cru ...

The words Grand Cru and Premier Cru (sometimes written as 1er cru) appear on lots of (usually very expensive) French wine labels. But what do these terms actually mean? As usual, it is a little ...

mislabeled the wine as French, then clandestinely shipped the supposed Grand Cru vintages to unsuspecting wine merchants around the world. Six people, who were not identified by Europol ...

Named after the official French wine classification for certain wines of good reputation, Grand Cru is set up as a cooperative, with alternating-proprietorship winery licenses under the facility ...

The best wines come from a narrow 75-mile-long strip that runs along the French side of the Rhine River with 51 grand cru vineyards located here which were given official status in 1975.

Grand cru is a term for a class of high-end, typically French wines. SHAPIRO: All the time - six people have been arrested in Italy and France in connection with a crime ring selling fake grand ...