Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855
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Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855 has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including The Rest Is History. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
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Tom HollandEnglish actor cast as Telemachus
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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- The Rest Is History · 1 episode
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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.