Médoc
Americannoun
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a wine-growing region in Gironde, in SW France.
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a red Bordeaux wine produced there.
noun
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a district of SW France, on the left bank of the Gironde estuary: famous vineyards
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a fine red wine from this district
Example Sentences
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Owen: The 2020 Cotes de Blaye comes from a French region located just across the Gironde from the Médoc.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2024
The communications executive, who relocated to Belgium from Chicago during the pandemic, met friends in Valencia, Spain, last year to run the marathon and has plans to run the Marathon du Médoc in September.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 3, 2022
The two Haut-Médocs are from the so-called Left Bank, the region to the west of the Garonne River encompassing the Médoc north of the city of Bordeaux and Graves to the south.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2018
The chateaus of the Médoc don’t exactly hang out big welcome signs.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2017
Though temperate, he understood the mysteries of the French cuisine, and liked the wines of Médoc.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 by Various
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