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1824 tr. Jullien's Topography of Vineyards & their Products p. xiii A wine is called of such a cru, meaning a circumscribed spot in a vineyard; it is also used in a more extensive sense, as the cru of such a district, &c.

1833 C. Redding Hist. Mod. Wines iv. 67 Cru. This word is applied in several ways. It means a vineyard, a particular spot in a vineyard, any vine land generally.

1862 C. Tovey Wine & Wine Countries iv. 131 There are in Bordeaux Wines four estates, or growths, classed as first crûs or growths.

1867 ‘Ouida’ Under Two Flags I. vii. 139 He drank the right cru and lived in the right set.

1939 F. M. Ford Let. 24 Jan. (1965) 309 Chateau Pavie is usually esteemed one of the big cru wines.

1951 R. Postgate Plain Man's Guide to Wine v. 92 The finest château bottled Premier Cru Classé of Médoc is connected by an insensible progression with the Bordeaux ordinaires.

1962 Economist 27 Jan. 334/1 Although most provincial papers are conservative, their conservatism is..not of the same cru as..the journalistic norm in Paris.

1963 Times 22 Jan. 12/3 Many of the vineyards which are classified as crus bourgeois supérieurs or crus bourgeois—that is, which did not appear among the first five growths in 1855—have profited by the great advances in viticulture since then.

1966 P. V. Price France: Food & Wine Guide 172 Just below the classed growths come the crus bourgeois..then the crus artisans.