Great Bordeaux Wines

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Wine guides

Hachette Guide to French Wines To help you in your buying of great bordeaux wines, there are wine guides offering you advice on the subject. Without a doubt, the guide that is currently viewed in the wine world as being the most authoritative is the Parker’s Wine Buyers Guide.
There are other guides: the The Hachette Guide to French Wines (Guide Hachette des Vins) and the ranking of the best French wines by the Revue du Vin de France magazine are also highly respected guides to great bordeaux wines.
There are also less authoritative guides available, such as Gault Millau - Le Vin or the Guide Fleurus des Vins.

Map of Bordeaux vineyard

Map of Bordeaux vineyard

Pauillac

Map of Pauillac vineyard

Pauillac appellation notes

Date created : 1936

Surface area : 1,190 hectares

Average annual Production : 8,600,000 bottles

Localization : Pauillac is a Bordeaux appellation that covers five parishes : Cissac-Médoc, Pauillac, Saint Estèphe, Saint Julien-Beychevelle and Saint Sauveur.

Notes: Pauillac wines are exclusively red wines: rich tannins, full-bodied, robust when young with aromas of red fruit and flowers, they gain in complexity with long-term cellaring. Pauillac has produced three of the five premiers grands crus classés (first growths) of the Médoc classification of 1855.

Pauillac wines that are included in the Médoc classification of 1855

- Château Lafite-Rothschild ( premier grand cru classé )
- Château Latour ( premier grand cru classé )
- Château Mouton-Rothschild ( premier grand cru classé )
- Château Pichon-Longueville-Baron ( deuxième grand cru classé )
- Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande ( deuxième grand cru classé )
- Château Duhart-Milon-Rothschild ( quatrième grand cru classé )
- Château d'Armailhac ( cinquième grand cru classé )
- Château Batailley ( cinquième grand cru classé )
- Château Clerc-Milon ( cinquième grand cru classé )
- Château Croizet Bages ( cinquième grand cru classé )
- Château Grand-Puy-Ducasse ( cinquième grand cru classé )
- Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste ( cinquième grand cru classé )
- Château Haut-Bages Libéral ( cinquième grand cru classé )
- Château Haut-Batailley ( cinquième grand cru classé )
- Château Lynch-Bages ( cinquième grand cru classé )
- Château Lynch-Moussas ( cinquième grand cru classé )
- Château Pédesclaux ( cinquième grand cru classé )
- Château Pontet-Canet ( cinquième grand cru classé )

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