Definition - What does Cru mean? Cru is a French wine term that means âGrowthâ. It appears on wine labels and can denote many things, depending on where the wine was made. In the simplest terms, Cru is a status term, indicating that the winery, vineyard or estate has met specific qualifications to use that term. When âClassÃ©â follows the term, it means that the vineyard is classified and is part of the Classed Growth designations. There are two ways to interpret âcruâ:
Pullman is the largest city in Whitman County, located in the Palouse region of the Pacific Northwest in southeastern Washington state. The population was 29,799 at the 2010 census, estimated to have reached 31,682 in 2014.
Lewis County in southwest Washington can truly be called the âmother of counties.â Half of the present-day Washington and of British Columbia were carved from its original borders. But the countyâs location astride the Cowlitz Trail between the Columbia River and Puget Sound meant that communities with good water access would develop first.