Saint-Estèphe is an appellation in France, covering 1,554.9 ha in Saint-Estephe. The rules allow red wine. Regional bedrock: unconsolidated sediments. It lies 6 km north of Pauillac and 48 km north of Bordeaux.
The northernmost of the great Médoc communes. More clay in the soil than further south gives firmer wines, with Cos d'Estournel and Montrose as leading estates.
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
Unconsolidated sediments75%
Mixed sedimentary rocks25%
Regional bedrock from the GLiM global lithological map (Hartmann and Moosdorf 2012), not a soil survey.