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Pauillac

Appellation

Pauillac is an appellation in France, covering 1,636.3 ha across 4 communes. The rules allow red wine. Regional bedrock: unconsolidated sediments. It lies around the town of Pauillac and 42 km north of Bordeaux.

Médoc commune with three of the five first growths of the 1855 classification: Lafite Rothschild, Latour and Mouton Rothschild. Cabernet Sauvignon on deep gravel gives powerful, long-lived wines.
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Key facts

Type
AOC
Category
Vin tranquille
Protected since
1973-09-18
Area
1,636.3 ha
Separate plots
3
Extent N–S × E–W
7.4 × 6.44 km
Centre
45.1972° N, 0.7688° W
Grapes
Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Carmenère, Cot, Merlot, Petit Verdot
Max yield
63 hl/ha
Min planting density
7,000 vines/ha
INAO office
Bordeaux

Where it is

Nearest town
around the town of Pauillac
Nearest city
42 km north of Bordeaux 265,328 people
To the sea
3 km
Lakes nearby
Hourtin-Carcans (24 km)
Same latitude
McMinnville (United States)

Distances from the centre of the place. Towns: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Sea, rivers and lakes: Natural Earth.

Terrain

Elevation
2–34 m
Mean elevation
19 m
Mean slope
1.6° (3 %)
Steepest tenth
above 4°
Faces
several directions, mostly north-west

Measured over the whole outline on 91,807 elevation cells of about 14 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles).

Wines and grape rules

Pauillac Red
Cabernet FrancCabernet SauvignonCarmenèreCotMerlotPetit Verdot
max 63 hl/ha · min 7,000 vines/ha

Vintages: Bordeaux (red)

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306
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510
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522
423
224

Atlas editorial scores: a consensus of widely published vintage reports, not one critic's view. Scores for 2023 and 2024 are early and can change as the wines develop. Scale 1 to 5.

Bedrock

Regional bedrock from the GLiM global lithological map (Hartmann and Moosdorf 2012), not a soil survey.

Communes · 4

Wineries · 7

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Sources

EU register of geographical indications · INAO, Délimitation parcellaire des AOC viticoles (Licence Ouverte 2.0)

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