The Map of Bordeaux
The 44 appellation names INAO maps in the Gironde, drawn from its official areas and laid over one another the way they really lie. Touch any point and the map names every appellation whose area covers it.
Bordeaux is not 44 places side by side. It is 44 areas stacked on top of one another, and that is the part the posters never show.
Click any appellation and the panel lists every other name whose area covers the same land, from the widest down to the narrowest. Switch from the communes to the delimited vineyard and each shape shrinks to the plots INAO has delimited for the name. Whether a given vine may carry a name is settled plot by plot, and the wine must still meet the rules of its cahier des charges. Pick a classification and the classified châteaux appear as pins: the Classification of 1855, the
Switch on Terroir to see the rock under every appellation. The story of that soil, its words and the pieces to play with it are in Terroir.
Tap an area. Drag to move, pinch to zoom.
Keyboard: tab through the list, arrows to pan, plus and minus to zoom, escape to clear.
Terroir: the rock at the surface
- Slope wash and cover
- River and estuary deposits of today
- Ice age river terraces: sand, gravel, pebbles
- Landes sand and the oldest river deposits
- Shell sands (faluns), limestones and marls of the Miocene
- Agenais molasses: clays and sands above the limestone
- Starfish limestone and marine marls
- Lake limestones and clays
- Molasses: sands and clays of old rivers and lakes
- Older sea limestones and marls
Territory
Wine made
Classifications
Château pins are off while Terroir is shown: a pin on a color would seem to name an estate’s soil, and a building is not a vineyard.
What each classification is, and every change it has been through
communes
Nothing matches those filters.
What is drawn here is the aire géographique: the communes INAO’s map data names for each appellation. It is not the delimited parcel area, and where communes have merged since the data was drawn, the cahier des charges in force counts fewer. Inside these communes only part of the land is planted, and only part of that is entitled to the appellation. The 44 are the names INAO maps for the Gironde: the AOCs and the named areas inside them, such as
Sources
- INAO, Aires géographiques des AOC/AOP. Licence Ouverte 2.0.
- IGN, commune boundaries of the Gironde. Licence Ouverte 2.0.
- Natural Earth, 10m ocean and rivers. public domain.
- IGN BD TOPO and the Base Adresse Nationale, estate positions. Licence Ouverte 2.0.
- Association de Grands Crus Classés de
Saint-Émilion and the Conseil des Vins deSaint-Émilion , estate positions from the estates' own pages. read 2026-09-13. - OpenStreetMap contributors and Wikidata, estate positions where the sources above have none. ODbL and CC0.
- INAO, Délimitation parcellaire des AOC viticoles, file of October 12, 2026. Licence Ouverte. (Terroir)
- BRGM, BD Charm-50, harmonized geological map of the Gironde. Licence Ouverte 2.0. (Terroir)
- IGN, RGE ALTI 5 m, Gironde, 2021 edition. Licence Ouverte. (Terroir)
- Michelin, the MICHELIN Guide’s new grape selection for Bordeaux, press release.
- The MICHELIN Guide, the Bordeaux wine selection.
- Conseil des Grands Crus Classés en 1855, the classified growths.
- Conseil Interprofessionnel du Vin de Bordeaux, the 1855 classification.
- Conseil des Vins de
Saint-Émilion , Classement des Crus deSaint-Émilion 2022, dossier de presse. - INAO,
Saint-Émilion grand cru: classification for the next decade. - Syndicat Viticole de
Pessac-Léognan , the Crus Classés deGraves .