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 "id": "cru",
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  "name": "Cru"
 },
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  "root": "French cru, past participle of croître, to grow — 'that which has grown'",
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 },
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  "world"
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  "letter": "C",
  "kind": "vineyard"
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  "what": "A growth: a vineyard, or a class of vineyards, recognised for what it yields. Grand cru and premier cru rank the ground in Burgundy; in Bordeaux the same word ranks the château instead."
 },
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  {
   "to": "climat",
   "as": "The plot a cru rank is attached to here.",
   "rel": "kin"
  },
  {
   "to": "burgundy",
   "as": "Four ranks, and the smaller the ground the louder the name.",
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  "s:wp-premier-cru"
 ],
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  }
 },
 "confidence": "high",
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 "blurb": "A growth: a vineyard, or a class of vineyards, recognised for what it yields. Grand cru and premier cru rank the ground in Burgundy; in Bordeaux the same word ranks the château instead.",
 "region_terms": [
  {
   "key": "burgundy",
   "name": "Burgundy",
   "country": "France",
   "note": "the Côte d'Or and its neighbours; the grape's home ground and its reference set"
  },
  {
   "key": "world",
   "name": "The world",
   "country": null,
   "note": "use when a node belongs everywhere pinot noir is grown"
  }
 ],
 "kin_out": [
  {
   "to": "climat",
   "type": "term",
   "name": "Climat",
   "as": "The plot a cru rank is attached to here.",
   "rel": "kin"
  },
  {
   "to": "burgundy",
   "type": "region",
   "name": "Burgundy",
   "as": "Four ranks, and the smaller the ground the louder the name.",
   "rel": "region"
  }
 ],
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   "id": "s:wp-grand-cru",
   "kind": "encyclopaedia",
   "title": "Grand cru",
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   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/?curid=1967586",
   "permalink": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1298253085",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "licence": "CC BY-SA 4.0"
  },
  {
   "id": "s:wp-premier-cru",
   "kind": "encyclopaedia",
   "title": "First Growth",
   "publisher": "Wikipedia",
   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/?curid=831138",
   "permalink": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1290217898",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "licence": "CC BY-SA 4.0"
  }
 ],
 "tiers": {
  "text.what": {
   "tier": "cited"
  },
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   "tier": "cited"
  }
 },
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 "acclaim": 0,
 "kin_in": [
  {
   "from": "inao",
   "type": "org",
   "name": "INAO",
   "as": "The rank it grants and withholds.",
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  }
 ]
}