Bordeaux White Wines Complement French Region's Seafood

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Mention Bordeaux, and most wine drinkers understandably think red. Red wines account for nearly 90 percent of the production from Bordeaux's vast 250,000 acres of vineyards.

But the Bordelaise citizens themselves also highly prize their region's delicious dry white wines -- especially with fresh oysters produced nearby in the Bassin d'Arcachon's blue waters. Driving less than an hour west from the city of Bordeaux, across a broad plain of pine forest and scrub, locals enjoy the oysters right on the half shell directly from the producers.

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Bordeaux White Wines Complement French Region's Seafood

In the tiny fisherman's Village de l'Herbe, 20-something Barthelemy Bosredon of La Cabane des Kykouyoux and his fellow ostreiculteurs produce succulent oysters. Customers escape the sun's brillia...

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