The Official Bordeaux Wine Classification of 1855 — Sauternes and Barsac

The only growth at this rank, created for it and never awarded to another château.

1879 — Split : The Peyraguey estate, classified undivided in 1855, was split at the end of the nineteenth century: the upper part became Clos Haut-Peyraguey, both growths keeping the first-growth rank. The date of 1879 is the most often cited but varies between sources.

1879 — Split : The upper part detached from the Peyraguey estate; see the note on Lafaurie-Peyraguey for the uncertainty over the date.

1903 — Split : The Rabaud estate, classified undivided in 1855, was first divided in 1903 between Rabaud-Promis and Sigalas Rabaud.

1929 — Merger : The two parts were reunited under the name Château Rabaud between the wars. The exact date of this reunion is not consistently established.

1952 — Split : Final separation into Rabaud-Promis and Sigalas Rabaud, both growths keeping the first-growth rank.

1903 — Split : The part detached from the Rabaud estate; see the note on Rabaud-Promis for the full chronology and its uncertainty.

The limiting case of the classification's unrevisability: the owner had the entire vineyard uprooted in 1976, judging sweet-wine production economically untenable, and the growth made no wine for more than ten years. His heirs replanted in 1988. The second-growth rank was never withdrawn, there being no authority able to withdraw it. The dates 1976 and 1988 are the most commonly cited; some sources date the revival to 1991, which is sometimes given as the first vintage sold after replanting. Neither episode is recorded as a history event because neither changed the rank or the membership of the list: they are facts of ownership, not acts of classification.

1855 — Split : The Doisy estate, classified undivided in 1855, was split three ways — Doisy Daëne, Doisy-Dubroca and Doisy-Védrines — each part keeping the second-growth rank. Sources disagree on the chronology of the split, some placing it before and others after the list was drawn up; the year given is therefore that of the classification, not of the split.

1855 — Split : A part of the Doisy estate; see the note on Doisy Daëne for the uncertainty over the date.

1855 — Split : A part of the Doisy estate; see the note on Doisy Daëne for the uncertainty over the date.

1881 — Split : The Romer estate, classified undivided in 1855, was divided among heirs; the larger part took the name Romer du Hayot. The date of 1881 is the one most often given for the first division, but the full chronology, which runs through several stages in the twentieth century, is not consistently established.

1881 — Split : A part of the Romer estate; see the note on Romer for the uncertainty over the date.

1961 — Split : The Lamothe estate, classified undivided in 1855, was split in two, each part keeping the second-growth rank. This part, farmed by the Despujols family, is often sold as Lamothe-Despujols, but the official list carries it under the name Lamothe alone. Dating of the split varies widely between sources.

1961 — Split : The part detached from the Lamothe estate; see the note on Lamothe for the uncertainty over the date.

1981 — Renaming : Taken over by the Guignard brothers, who gave the growth its present name.