SAINT-JULIEN-BEYCHEVELLE

'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.

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Wine

Selection of St-Julien vineyards

See also

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.

Selection of St-Julien vineyards

★ Château Beychevelle

★ Château Branaire-Ducru

★ 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

See also

★ French wine

★ Bordeaux wine

★ Bordeaux wine regions