Barsac

American  

[bahr-sak, bar-sak] / ˈbɑr sæk, barˈsak /

noun

1. a village and winegrowing district in Gironde, in SW France.

2. a sweet, white Sauterne from here.

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Barsac British  

/ barsak, ˈbɑːsæk /

noun

1. a sweet French white wine produced around the town of Barsac in the Gironde

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Example Sentences

Wine guilds, such as the Commanderie du Bontemps du Médoc et des Graves, Sauternes et Barsac on the Left Bank, and the Jurade in Saint-Émilion on the Right, celebrate this history and tradition with processions and banquets, their members bedecked in fancy robes.

From Washington Post

In May on Nantucket, a dinner of old Bordeaux finished up with Château Climens 2005 from Barsac, a region within the greater Sauternes appellation.

From New York Times

The curatorial committee was made up of the designer’s daughter, Pernette Perriand, an architect herself; Ms. Perriand’s husband, Jacques Barsac, a writer who is the author of his mother-in-law’s catalog raisonné; Sébastien Cherruet, the head of institutional relations at the luxury conglomerate LVMH; and the art historians Gladys Fabre and Sébastien Gokalp.

From New York Times

According to Mr. Barsac’s “Charlotte Perriand: Complete Works,” the fourth volume of which will be published in English this fall, she first traveled to Japan in 1940 at the invitation of the government to advise its leaders on industrial art.

From New York Times

The tiny Sauternes appellation—located just south of Graves in Bordeaux and composed of five communes that include Sauternes and Barsac—accounts for just 1% of the wines produced in Bordeaux.

From The Wall Street Journal