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Claret Color 196 - #7F1734

A Bordeaux wine is any wine produced in the Bordeaux region of France, centered on the city of Bordeaux and covering over 120,000 hectares, making it the largest wine growing area in France. Average vintages produce over 700 million bottles of Bordeaux wine, ranging from large quantities of everyday table wine, to some of the most expensive and prestigious wines in the world. Most wine produced in Bordeaux is red (called "claret" in Britain), with sweet white wines (most notably Sauternes), dry whites, and also rosé and sparkling wines (Crémant de Bordeaux) collectively making up the remainder. Bordeaux wine is made by more than 8,500 producers or châteaux.

Claret derives from the French clairet, a now uncommon dark rosé, which was the most common wine exported from Bordeaux until the 18th century. The name was anglicized to "claret" as a result of its widespread consumption in England during the period in the 12th-15th centuries that Aquitaine was under the English crown.