Bordeaux
wine information
Bordeaux
wines: 21 wines in the French Wine Guide
Bordeaux is
probably the most well-know wine region in France.
Bordeaux counts for one third of the good quality
french wine (AOC, crus bourgeois, crus classés).
The
wines are so good there that a Bordeaux
ranking is needed to classify the best of the
best. Some of them are universal: Margaux,
Yquem, Pétrus, Cheval
Blanc, Haut Brion and all the others. Bordeaux has
about 7,000 chateaux !
The most basic information on the wine of Bordeaux are
:
| Location: |
In
the south west of France, near the Atlantic coast,
around the city of Bordeaux
Bordeaux
region information |
| Size: |
10
725 km2 (size of the Gironde department)
Gironde - where Bordeaux is - is
the biggest department in France |
| Size
of the vineyards: |
120,000
hectares (300,000 acres) |
| Grapes
in Bordeaux: |
Merlot (50%
of Bordeaux wines)
Cabernet-Sauvignon (26%)
Cabernet-Franc (10%)
Sémillon (8%)
Sauvignon (4%)
|
| Production: |
850
million bottles
25% of all AOC in France
Bordeaux wine making |
| Type
of Wine: |
Full-body
red wine (pomerol)
Medium-body red wine (bordeaux aoc)
Dry white wine (entre deux mers)
Sweet white wine (barsac and sauternes) |
| Bordeaux
Wine and food: |
Oysters
Pauillac Lamb
Duck with mushrooms
Bordeaux wine
and food |
Read
more about Bordeaux wines with Amazon.com :
- Bordeaux:
a comprehensive guide to the wines
produced from 1961 to 1997, by Robert
Jr. Parker
More
pages on Bordeaux :
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About
Bordeaux wine region :
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Wines
from Bordeaux :
Médoc - Haut
Médoc - Margaux - Saint
Estèphe - Pauillac - Saint
Julien - Listrac - Moulis - Graves - Pessac
Léognan - Sauternes - Barsac - 1ères
Cotes de Bordeaux - Bordeaux
aoc/Bordeaux supérieur - Entre
Deux Mers - Saint
Emilion - Cotes
de Castillon - Cotes
de Francs - Pomerol - Fronsac - Cotes
de Bourg - Wines of Bordeaux
Other
french wine regions :
Alsace - Bourgogne
(Burgundy) - Champagne - Corsica - Côtes
du Rhône - Languedoc-Roussillon - Loire
Valley - Provence - South
West
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