🏷️ Cru Bourgeois

Cru Bourgeois (Cru Bourgeois du Médoc) is a quality classification of châteaux in the Médoc, Bordeaux, France, run by the Alliance des Crus Bourgeois du Médoc. It is open to estates that can produce red wine in the eight Médoc appellations (Médoc, Haut-Médoc, Listrac-Médoc, Moulis-en-Médoc, Margaux, Saint-Julien, Pauillac and Saint-Estèphe) and has three levels: Cru Bourgeois, Cru Bourgeois Supérieur and Cru Bourgeois Exceptionnel.

Since 2020 each classification is valid for five years. The rules are set by a specification (cahier des charges) and a verification plan approved by a ministerial order published in the Journal Officiel on 4 January 2018, and candidates are assessed in blind tastings. The first five-year classification, announced in 2020, named 250 châteaux; the second, announced in 2025, names 170.

The first Cru Bourgeois list dates from 1932 and was never submitted for government approval. The 2003 version picked 247 châteaux out of 490 candidates: 151 Cru Bourgeois, 87 Supérieur and 9 Exceptionnel. The 2025 list, announced on 10 February 2025 at Wine Paris, holds 14 Exceptionnel, 36 Supérieur and 120 Cru Bourgeois estates. Together the classified estates make more than 40% of all the wine produced in the Médoc.