Sauternes / Barsac

Sauternes, 65 kilometers (40 miles) south of Bordeaux city, is a village famous for its high-quality sweet wines. The village is surrounded on all sides by vineyards, the best of which produce some of the world's most prestigious, long-lived and expensive dessert wines.

Barsac is a small village about 65 kilometers (40 miles) south of Bordeaux, in the southwest of France. It makes sweet white wines based on the Semillon grape variety.