One of the six communes (alongside Listrac-Médoc, Margaux, Moulis, Saint-Estèphe and Saint-Julien) within the French Haut-Médoc region (Bordeaux) that are independent appellations and are authorised to bear the commune name on the bottle label.Pauillac is located between Saint-Estèphe and Saint-Julien. Here, sulphurisationsulphur of the wine in the barrelwasintroducedas early as the 18th centuryto prevent secondary fermentationfermentation .The town of Pauillac, locatedon the Gironde estuary,is rightly regarded as the wine capital of the Médoc , von diesem Hafen aus stach Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834) in See, um sich den amerikanischen Rebellen anzuschließen und dort aktiv mitzukämpfen.
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