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Château de Myrat

Barsac

A second growth of 1855 in Barsac, de Myrat is the only classified growth of Sauternes to have been pulled up: its owner had the whole vineyard uprooted in 1976, judging sweet wine economically untenable. Replanted in 1988 by his heirs, it recovered its standing without ever having lost its rank, the 1855 classification not being revisable.

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Classifications

  • The Official Bordeaux Wine Classification of 1855 — Sauternes and Barsac

    Second Growths · Since 1855

    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 The second-growth rank was never withdrawn, there being no authority able to withdraw it.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.

Sources

  1. Official sourceLe classement GCC 1855 par appellation — Conseil des Grands Crus Classés en 1855— Conseil des Grands Crus Classés en 1855 (Médoc & Sauternes)
  2. Reference bookThe Oxford Companion to Wine— Oxford University Press
  3. Official sourceArrêté du 25 mars 2026 homologuant le cahier des charges de l'AOC « Barsac »— Légifrance — Journal officiel de la République française