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The Ranking That Has Governed Bordeaux for 170 Years
In 1855 an emperor asked some wine brokers to make a list. They ranked the great châteaux by price into five tiers, and that list, drawn up in a matter of weeks, still decides the fate of the world's most famous wines today.
The Prince, the Mistress, and the World's Most Expensive Wine
In 1760 a French prince and a king's mistress went to war over a tiny patch of Burgundian dirt smaller than a football field. The prince won, took its wine off the market entirely, and gave it his name. It is still the most coveted wine on earth.
The Sake Brewer's Son Who Carried Scotland to Japan
A young Japanese man sailed to Scotland in the 1910s, learned to make whisky, married a Scottish woman, and brought it all home. From that journey came two rival empires and an entire national industry that now beats the Scots at their own game.