(NYT20) UNDATED -- May 31, 2005 -- WINE-TIMES -- Wines from the Medoc region of Bordeaux, France had a good year in 2001. Few hierarchies of wine producers have had so long and influential a run as the 1855 classification of the wines of the Medoc, in which a group of Bordeaux wine brokers created a five-class ranking of 60 Medoc chateaus (and one from Graves, the famous Haut-Brion). For 150 years, this ranking has largely determined how much money the chateaus could charge for their wines and, more important, how much money the public was willing to pay for them. (Tony Cenicola/The New York Times)