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Place details
- Locality
- Sauternes
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Population
- 644
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- France
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Department
- Gironde
- Arrondissement
- Langon
- Canton
- Le Sud-Gironde
- Mayor 2020 2026
- Yann Marot
- Area
- 11.32 km (4.37 sq mi)
- Density
- 69.6/km (180/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Insee postal code
- 33504 /33210
- Elevation
- 13–89 m (43–292 ft) , (avg. 80 m or 260 ft)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- commune of France
- Official name
- Sauternes
- Country
- France
- Located in
- arrondissement of Langon
- Population
- +788
- Area
- +11.32
- Elevation
- +57
- Shares border with
- Fargues
- Official website
- www.sauternes.com
- Image
- Sauternes Mairie.jpg
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Article
Sauternes ( French pronunciation: [sotɛʁn]; Occitan: Sautèrnas) is a commune in the Gironde department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France.
It is also a wine region within the Graves portion of Bordeaux that produces sweet white dessert wines, named "Sauternes" after the commune, as well as some dry white wine.