What Tom Holland has said about Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855
1 quote · 1 episode · May 3, 2026
Tom Holland, English actor cast as Telemachus, has been quoted on Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855 once in 1 episode of The Rest Is History, most recently on May 3, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Holland argued that the 1855 Bordeaux rankings were based on English market prices rather than objective quality.
“they were based on how much people in england were prepared to pay for the wine”
The Rest Is History: 666. Wine and the Birth of Civilisation (May 3, 2026) · Listen from 54:54
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666. Wine and the Birth of CivilisationThe Rest Is History · May 3, 2026 · 1 h 16 min
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook trace the history of wine through seven key moments, from Neolithic Georgia and Rome to Islam, English bottles, French terroir and the 1976 Judgement of Paris.
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