The wine regions of Bordeaux are a large number of wine growing areas, differing widely in size and sometimes overlapping, which lie within the overarching wine region of Bordeaux, centred on the city of Bordeaux and covering the whole area of the Gironde department of Aquitaine.
A dry white Bordeaux made under the generic Bordeaux AOC.
The Château Latour tower in Pauillac is featured on every bottle of this First Growth wine
Vineyard of Moulis-en-Médoc
A Sauternes vineyard
Gironde is the largest department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of Southwestern France. Named after the Gironde estuary, a major waterway, its prefecture is Bordeaux. In 2019, it had a population of 1,623,749. The famous Bordeaux wine region is in Gironde. It has six arrondissements, making it one of the departments with the most arrondissements.
Prefecture building in Bordeaux
Bordeaux
Bordeaux wine
The Great Dune of Pyla