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Bordeaux
Bordeaux is the largest Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée in France and one of the largest fine-wine regions in the world (~290,350 acres across some sixty appellations), lying along the Gironde Estuary and its two feeder rivers, the Dordogne and the Garonne, an hour from the Atlantic.
Its maritime climate — tempered by the ocean, the Gulf Stream and the Landes pine forests — is milder and more stable than it would otherwise be, but can be difficult, which is why growing several varieties that ripen at different times spreads the agricultural risk.
Nearly 90 percent of the wine is red, and both red and white Bordeaux are almost always BLENDS of two or more varieties.
Key grapes
- Cabernet Franc
- Cabernet Sauvignon
- Merlot
- Sauvignon Blanc
- Sémillon
- climate
- maritime (Atlantic + Gulf Stream + Landes forests, temperate)
- classification system
- 1855 Classification (Médoc/Sauternes) plus separate Graves and St.-Émilion systems; Pomerol unclassified
- structure
- Left Bank (Médoc/Graves, gravel, cabernet-dominant) vs Right Bank (St.-Émilion/Pomerol, clay-limestone, merlot-dominant)
- primarily
- red (nearly 90% of production); wines are almost always blends
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