Provence is the only French wine region outside of Bordeaux that has developed a classified ranking for wine estates.
On July 20, 1955, 22 years before Cotes de Provence wines got their Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée, fourteen Provençal wine estates managed to officially designate themselves Crus Classés based on an evaluation of the estates' history, winemaking and cellar reputation and overall vineyard quality,[REF] and include .