There are two kinds of people in every world. The ones the list remembers. And the ones who spend their lives trying to make it remember them.
Bordeaux and Paris. 1855. The classification that still governs the wine world today.
A clerk named Étienne Vauroux arrives in Paris for the first time with a cork from a bottle of Château Brumeval in his coat pocket. The list is already on the wall. This is the story of how it got there — and what it cost the people it left out.