What is the difference between Medoc and Haut-Medoc?

What is the difference between Médoc and Haut-Médoc?

The Médoc AOC is diverse in climate and terroir, and as such the wines vary in flavor and value. The Haut-Médoc AOC is also located within the larger Médoc geographical area. As in the Médoc AOC, there are many smaller communes within the Haut-Médoc.

What does Haut-Médoc mean in French?

Haut-Médoc (French: [o medɔk]) is an Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée (AOC) for wine in the Bordeaux wine region of southwestern France, on the Left Bank of the Gironde estuary. Similarly, Haut-Médoc is a sub-appellation of the Médoc AOC.

What are the 6 appellations of the Haut-Médoc?

THE AOCS

• Haut-Médoc.
• Listrac-Médoc.
• Margaux.
• Médoc.
• Moulis.
• Pauillac.
• Saint-Estèphe.
• Saint-Julien.

What does Haut-Médoc pair with?

Haut Medoc Bordeaux makes excellent wine and food pairing with most game, beef, veal, pork, lamb, or duck dishes. Haut Medoc wines also pair well with roast chicken and a wide variety of other roasted or grilled meats, game, or seafood dishes.

Is Haut-Médoc a good wine?

Châteaux labelled simply as Haut-Médoc rarely reach such heights, but nevertheless offer consistently good quality and offer some of the best value in Bordeaux. Haut-Médoc wines tend to be firm and fine with generous fruit and a nice minerality – what many would consider ‘classic Claret’.

What grape is Haut-Médoc wine?

Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot are the main grape varieties, covering approximately 4650 hectares (11,490 acres). White wines made in Haut-Médoc AOP vineyards are bottled as Bordeaux Blanc.

Is Haut-Médoc red wine?

Despite being as visually unprepossessing as the rest of the Médoc, this large red-wine appellation is home to some of the world’s greatest wines. Its 4,500 hectares of vineyards form a largely continuous strip that follows the Gironde from St Seurin-de-Cadourne to Blanquefort.

Are Graves Médoc?

In the Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855, only one Graves property, Château Haut-Brion, one of the four original First growths, was included among the red wines, with all the rest being Médoc properties. A classification of Graves wine was carried out in 1953 for its red wine producers.

Is Haut-Médoc a red wine?

Is Medoc same as Merlot?

With few exceptions there is produced only red wine, and no white wine has the right to be called Médoc….Médoc AOC.

What grape is Haut Medoc wine?