Bordeaux wine: factbox

Jun 7, 2011

Bordeaux is France's largest fine wine region in both production and vineyard acreage (300,000 acres). - The Bordeaux region is made up of five main districts : Medoc, St Emilion, Pomerol, Graves, and Sauternes. - The Bordeaux region produces approximately 60 million to 70 million cases of wine of each vintage (12 x 750ml bottles per case). - Bordeaux has more than 9,000 wine producers. Sixty per cent of these producers make the wine on their own premises, while the remainder entrust this task to the 52 cooperatives.

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