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a wordCru

CruFrench cru, past participle of croître, to grow — 'that which has grown'

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.

Root. French cru, past participle of croître, to grow — 'that which has grown' Cited · wp-grand-cru

Facts

kindvineyard
regionBurgundy, The world
confidencehigh · updated 2026-09-16

Its kin

wordClimatThe plot a cru rank is attached to here.regionBurgundyFour ranks, and the smaller the ground the louder the name.

Who points back

organization · says of this pageINAOThe rank it grants and withholds.

Sources

Where it came from: Cited a source we name · Harvested pulled from an open dataset · Tradition what the tradition says, hedged · Inference this project's reasoning · Field somebody stood there. This record as JSON.

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