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Bordeaux is a world capital of wine: [10] many châteaux and vineyards stand on the hillsides of the Gironde, and the city is home to the world's main wine fair, Vinexpo. Bordeaux is also one of the centers of gastronomy [11] and business tourism for the organization of international
1970 - Bordeaux Segalen University established. [28] 1980 - Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine active. [29] 1988 - Bordeaux International School established. 1992 - Socialist Party national congress held in Bordeaux. 1995 - Alain Juppé becomes mayor. [15] 1998 - Some 1998 FIFA World Cup football games held in Bordeaux.
For the 1855 Paris Exposition, Emperor Napoleon III commissioned the Bordeaux merchants to come out with a ranking of the region's wine estates. The 1855 classification of Bordeaux would become one of the world's most famous rankings of wine estates. Wine was becoming a cornerstone of the French economy and a source of national pride as French ...
The Piliers de Tutelle in a 1640 panorama of Bordeaux. Drawing by Herman van der Hem.. The Piliers de Tutelle (meaning Pillars of Guardianship in French) was an important Gallo-Roman monument erected in the third century on the approximate location of the southwest corner of the Grand Théâtre of Bordeaux, a city in southwestern France.
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Starting in the 1960s and 1970s, these vineyards were converted to red wine production (of Bordeaux AOC and Bordeaux Supérieur AOC), and the production of white wine has decreased ever since. Today production of white wine has shrunk to about one tenth of Bordeaux's total production, with 11.0% of the vineyard surface in 2007 used for white ...
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Map of the Bordeaux regions with most of its appellations shown. The rivers Garonne and Dordogne, and the Gironde estuary are important in defining the various parts of the region. Bordeaux wine (Occitan: vin de Bordèu; French: vin de Bordeaux) is produced in the Bordeaux region of southwest France, around the city of Bordeaux, on the Garonne ...