Saint-Julien-Beychevelle
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Commune of Saint-Julien-Beychevelle |
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| Country | France |
| Region | Aquitaine |
| Department | Gironde |
| Arrondissement | Lesparre-Médoc |
| Canton | Pauillac |
| Statistics | |
| Elevation | 0 m–28 m (avg. 16 m) |
| Land area¹ | 16.3 km² |
| Population² (1999) |
798 |
| - Density | 48/km² (1999) |
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| INSEE/Postal code | 33423/ 33250 |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
| 2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once. | |
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Saint-Julien-Beychevelle is a village and commune on the left bank of the Garonne estuary in the Gironde département of south-west France, that produces red wine.
[edit] Wine
The village lies 15 km north-west of Bordeaux and is considered by some to be the most underrated of the four major wine growing appellations of the Médoc.
The 9 km² of vineyards around the villages of St-Julien and Beychevelle produce wine of relative lightness and balance. Its strength stems from the quality of its soil – the characteristic layer of gravel forcing the roots of the vine to go to extra depth to reach its nutrients, as well as retaining additional heat to see it through the cooling winds from the Atlantic away to the west.
St-Julien contains no First Growths but it does have estates ranked as Second, Third and Fourth Growths in the Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855.
[edit] Selection of St-Julien vineyards
- Château Beychevelle
- Château Branaire-Ducru
- Château Gloria
- Château Ducru-Beaucaillou
- Château Gruaud-Larose
- Château Lagrange
- Château Langoa-Barton
- Château Léoville-Las Cases
- Château Léoville-Poyferré
- Château Léoville-Barton
- Château Saint-Pierre
- Château Talbot
