Saint-Julien-Beychevelle

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Coordinates: 45°09′56″N 0°44′21″W / 45.1655555556, -0.739166666667

Commune of Saint-Julien-Beychevelle
Location
Saint-Julien-Beychevelle is located in France
Saint-Julien-Beychevelle
Saint-Julien-Beychevelle
Administration
Country France
Region Aquitaine
Department Gironde
Arrondissement Lesparre-Médoc
Canton Pauillac
Statistics
Elevation 0–28 m (0–92 ft)
(avg. 16 m/52 ft)
Land area1 16.3 km2 (6.3 sq mi)
Population2
(1999)		 798
 - Density 48 /km² (120 /sq mi) (1999)
Miscellaneous
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.
France

Saint-Julien-Beychevelle is a commune on the left bank of the Garonne estuary in the Gironde department in Aquitaine in southwestern France, that produces red wine.

[edit] Wine

The village lies 15 km (9.3 mi) northwest 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 (3.5 sq mi) 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

[edit] See also

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