Saint-Estèphe

Saint -Estephe is a French wine-growing village on the Médoc peninsula, near Bordeaux and is part of the Gironde department in the region of Aquitaine. The 23.54 km ² large municipality is home to 1642 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011). Almost half of the area of the municipality is planted with vines. The community is located about nine kilometers north of Pauillac and 57 km north-west of Bordeaux. The inhabitants are called Stéphanois.

The municipality is divided adjacent to the main village in several hamlets and many farmsteads.

Saint- Estèphe has been twinned with the Lower Saxony spots Bevern.

Wine region of Saint -Estèphe

The place also marks the northernmost of the four local appellations for wine-growing; the other local appellations of the Medoc are Pauillac, Saint- Julien and Margaux.

The well-known vineyards of Saint- Estèphe are the great estates of Château Cos d' Estournel and Chateau Montrose, both located in the south near the edge to the neighboring community Pauillac. Besides them, there are more than one hundred, mostly small wineries.

The wines from Saint -Estephe are generally considered a little stronger, stricter found to be the other wines of the Médoc peninsula; even the tiny microclimate shifts a few kilometers can be in the wine will taste. Many wineries also bring about more of the earlier maturing Merlot vine in their wine mixture into the cuvées a, which makes the wine rounder, easy to drink and ready to drink sooner.

According to the Bordeaux Wine Classification of 1855 (see also the article in Bordeaux wine (classification) ) has Saint- Estèphe 2 Deuxièmes Classified Growth (Château Montrose and Château Cos d' Estournel ), a Troisième Grand Cru Classé (Château Calon - Ségur ), a Quatrième Grand Cru Classé (Château Lafon Rochet - ) as well as a Cinquième Grand Cru Classé (Château Cos Labory )