Saint-Julien-Beychevelle

French commune
nomcommune=Saint-Julien-Beychevelle
région=Aquitaine
département=Gironde
arrondissement=Lesparre-Médoc
canton=Pauillac
insee=33423
cp=33250
maire=
mandat=
intercomm=
longitude=-0.739166666667
latitude=45.1655555556
alt moy=16 m
alt mini=0
alt maxi=28 m
hectares=1630
km²=16.3
sans=798
date-sans=1999
dens=48
date-dens=1999

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.

Wine

The village lies 15 km 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 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 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

ee also

*French wine
*Bordeaux wine
*Bordeaux wine regions
*Communes of the Gironde department