1-5th Growths

[Innkeeper]

Hi Mccandless and welcome to the Wine Board. The simplest way to explain it is to think of the word "tier" replacing "growth." Those wineries in the First Growth according to the 1855 classification are the first or highest tier. So on and so on for two, three, four, five. This sort of explains why there are many more fifth growths than first growths.