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    AOC, Pauillac AOC, Saint-Julien AOC, Listrac-Médoc AOC, Moulis-en-Médoc AOC and Margaux AOC) that are technically wine-making communes of Haut-Médoc....
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  • Médoc is an AOC for wine in the Bordeaux wine region of southwestern France, on the Left Bank of the Gironde estuary that covers the northern section...
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    here is red. Médoc AOC Haut-Médoc AOC Saint-Estèphe AOC Pauillac AOC Saint-Julien AOC Listrac-Médoc AOC Moulis-en-Médoc AOC Margaux AOC The northern or...
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    Right Bank neighbor Saint-Émilion AOC and is on par with the smallest Left Bank commune of Saint-Julien AOC in the Médoc. In 1998, there were 784 hectares...
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    Saint-Julien is an Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (AOC) for red wine in the Bordeaux region, located in the Médoc subregion. It takes its name from the commune...
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    Saint-Estèphe is an Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (AOC) for red wine in the Bordeaux region, located in the Médoc subregion. It takes its name from the commune...
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  • bank of the Gironde. It is the southernmost appellation in the Médoc (the haut in Haut-Médoc refers to the fact that it lies upstream), not far north of...
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    recorded mention of French claret in London. After Médoc was drained by the Dutch in mid-17th century, Médoc gradually took over the role as the source of...
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  • property of Bordeaux of 54 hectares (130 acres) based in the Listrac-Médoc AOC and classified as Cru Bourgeois. In the 12th century, the Cistercian monks...
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    Gironde department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. The Haut-Médoc AOC winery Château Hourtin-Ducasse is located in the commune. Communes of...
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    now Château Belgrave, St.-Laurent (Haut-Médoc) Camensac, now Château de Camensac, St.-Laurent (Haut-Médoc) Cos Labory, now Château Cos Labory, St.-Estèphe...
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    that are entitled to use the designation Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (AOC) on their label. There are currently over 300 appellations acknowledged by...
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    Saint-Laurent-Médoc (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ loʁɑ̃ medɔk], also known as Saint-Laurent-du-Médoc; Occitan: Sent Laurenç de Medòc) is a commune in the...
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    Bordeaux Supérieur AOC. Notable exceptions to the general rule of Bordeaux AOC as simpler wines are some dry white wines produced in Médoc and Sauternes,...
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    forest. All three communes lie within the Haut-Médoc. The town of Pauillac is the largest in the Médoc, with a population of over 5,000. Pauillac is somewhat...
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    Before then, the area was part of the Graves AOC, and known informally as Haut-Graves. As with the Médoc to the north, Cabernet Sauvignon is the predominant...
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  • Bordeaux AOC wines and produced with an influence of oak. The wine is sold in a variety of containers including bottles and bag-in-box. A Haut-Médoc AOC wine...
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    the seventeenth century, Dutch traders drained the swampy ground of the Médoc so it could be planted with vines, and this gradually surpassed Graves as...
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    The Cru Bourgeois classification lists some of the châteaux from the Médoc that were not included in the 1855 Classification of Crus Classés, or Classed...
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  • 45.191; -0.8 Château Hourtin-Ducasse is a vineyard in Saint-Sauveur, Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. It forms part of the Haut-Médoc AOC. v t e...
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    Sauternes (wine) (redirect from Barsac AOC)
    residual sugar that the wines need to have. Unlike the red wines of the Médoc, which received five degrees (from Premier Cru to Cinquième Cru), the Sauternes...
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  • 1991), Czech footballer Moulis-en-Médoc AOC, a red wine appellation in Bordeaux, situated around the commune Moulis-en-Médoc Mouli (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
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    Château Cantemerle is a winery in the Haut-Médoc appellation of the Bordeaux wine region of France, in the commune of Macau. The wine produced here was...
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  • had 28 hectares (69 acres) of vineyards within AOC Margaux plus 25 hectares (62 acres) of Haut-Médoc AOC. Classified growths are allowed to expand their...
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    bank of the Garonne estuary in the Médoc region, in the département of Gironde, and the wine is delimited to the AOC of Margaux. The estate also produces...
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    Blaye (wine) (redirect from Blaye AOC)
    not covered by any of these AOCs, and must be sold under a generic Bordeaux appellation. The area is hillier than the Médoc, rising to a height of over...
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    expanded, opening an office and store in Bordeaux and a château in the Médoc. The commune is twinned with: Fellbach, Germany Erba, Italy Communes of...
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    Margaux AOC, that encompasses the village and the neighbouring villages of Arsac, Labarde, Soussans and Cantenac, and is the most southerly of Médoc's appellations...
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    of five within the "Grand cru classé" designation for red wines from the Médoc and Graves, and the second-highest of three in Sauternes where the highest...
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    it will continue for now to supply transmissions to the company. Haut-Médoc AOC Communes of the Gironde department "Répertoire national des élus: les...
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