The Bordelais is a pays of Aquitaine in France, the region surrounding the city of Bordeaux. The vignoble Bordelais signifies in French the wine-producing region round Bordeaux, notable for the wines that were traditionally called claret by their greatest customers, the English. These wines are now more generally simply called "Bordeaux wines". The wine country of Médoc lies on the right bank of the Gironde, reaching north to Saint-Vivien-de-Médoc. The vignoble of Graves extends south from Bordeaux along the Garonne to the canton of Langon. Less familiar wine-country of the Bordelais are Blaye and Bourg, Libournais, and Entre-deux-mers.
The wine country is bounded in the south by the pine forests of Landes, western Europe's largest stretch of forest.
The region produced its distinctive black-and-white dairy cows, the Bordelais cattle all but extinct today [1].
