This section is from the book "Beverages And Their Adulteration Origin, Composition, Manufacture, Natural, Artificial, Fermented, Distilled, Alkaloidal And Fruit Juices", by Harvey W. Wiley. Also available from Amazon: Beverages And Their Adulteration.
There are other wines of the Medoc which are entitled to the name of Grand Wines, belonging to the growths of the lower classification. Those classified among the fourth growth are as follows:
Producing 140 tuns a year.
Containing 250 hectares and producing 150 tuns a year.
Embracing 50 hectares and producing 225 tuns per year.
Producing a wine which by some professionals is classed as those wines of the second growth.
Comprising 200 hectares, of which 40 are devoted to the production of the best wines of the vineyard. Its annual output is about 100 tuns.
It is also of the Margaux region and has an annual yield of 90 tuns. The wines of this vineyard are highly esteemed in many parts of the United States.
Embracing 20 hectares, with an annual production of 45 tuns.
Embracing an extent of 46 hectares, yielding an annual production of 70 tuns.
Producing a mean harvest of 75 tuns per year.
Having a mean production of 80 tuns per year.
With a mean production of 30 tuns a year.
The last division of Grand Wines of the Medoc are those that belong to the fifth class of growth. The principal members of this group are as folows:
This is a large vineyard, of 380 hectares, producing an annual harvest of 200 tuns.
With an annual production of 250 tuns.
Embracing 50 hectares, with a mean annual production of 120 tuns.
This vineyard, the property of Madam Cruse, produces one of the best known wines, and one, perhaps, which is more imitated than any other red wine used in the country. This vineyard has an extent of 70 hectares, and the wine produced is among the very best of the fifth growth; in fact, its reputation is quite equal to some of the wines of the second or third growth. It is a wine which has a fine character, very dry, with excellent styptic properties, and of a character which fosters its constant use as a table wine whenever it can be had. The production of the wine is extremely limited as can be deduced from the small size of the vineyard, and by reason of the fact that the name is so often imitated in the United States purchasers should be sure that the wines which bear this name are the genuine article. One of the most common forms of imitating the name is to call it simple "Canet," which, of course, is quite as objectionable as to use the full name.
A vineyard having a harvest of 150 tuns a year.
A beautiful vineyard with an output of 60 tuns a year.
With a production of 140 tuns a year.
Embracing 125 hectares, with a production of from 80 to 100 tuns per year.
Producing a wine with a fine reputation especially in England.
With an annual production of about 90 tuns.
Embracing 21 hectares, with a mean annual output of 80 tuns.
Producing annually about 30 tuns of wine particularly valued in England.
A very small vineyard near Chateau Lafite, and producing annually 15 tuns.
A vineyard giving an excellent wine, and about 60 tuns a year.
Producing about 120 tuns a year.
Producing about 100 tuns a year.
 
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