📍 Sauternais
The Sauternes and Barsac zone, where sweet wines are made from grapes with noble rot.
Sauternais is a wine region. Country: France. Part of: Bordeaux.
It includes: Barsac, Sauternes. Main grape varieties: Sémillon, Sauvignon Blanc.
How it connects to Wine
📍 Sauternais ← grows in ← 🍇 Sauvignon Blanc → kind of → 🍇 Grape varieties → kind of → 🍷 Wine
Links
- Part of
- 📍 Bordeaux
- Appellations
- 📜 Barsac
- Related to
- 🍷 Sauternes, 🏰 Château d'Yquem (Sauternes), 🏰 Château Filhot (Sauternes), 🏰 Château La Tour Blanche (Sauternes), 🏰 Château Doisy Daëne (Sauternes / Barsac), 🏰 Château Broustet (Sauternes / Barsac), 🏰 Château Coutet (Sauternes / Barsac), 🏰 Château de Myrat (Sauternes / Barsac), 🍷 La Chartreuse de Coutet
- Grapes
- 🍇 Sémillon, 🍇 Sauvignon Blanc
Frequently asked questions
Where is Sauternais?
Sauternais is a wine area in this country: France.
Which grapes are used for Sauternais wine?
Sauternais wine is made mainly from these grapes: Sémillon, Sauvignon Blanc.
What to read next
- 🏰 Château Coutet — A Barsac estate whose wine-growing history the estate dates to 1643; owned by the Baly family since 1977; a first growth of the 1855 classification.
- 🍷 La Chartreuse de Coutet — La Chartreuse de Coutet: sweet wine by Château Coutet from Barsac; Sauternes.
- 🏰 Château d'Yquem — A Sauternes estate held for over 400 years by the Sauvage and Lur-Saluces families and owned by LVMH since 1999; the only Premier Cru Supérieur of the 1855 classification.
- 🏰 Château Filhot — A Sauternes estate founded in 1709 by Romain de Filhot, a family business run today by Comte Gabriel de Vaucelles; 60 ha above the village; a second growth of 1855.
- 🏰 Château La Tour Blanche — A Sauternes estate bequeathed to the French State by Daniel Iffla Osiris on condition of founding a wine school (opened 1911); owned by the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region since 2010; a first growth of 1855.