Bordelais (landscape)
The Bordelais is a landscape in southwest France. Its center is the city of Bordeaux . As a landscape term, Bordelais describes in the strictest sense the region on the left bank of the Garonne between the Bazadais in the south and the Médoc in the north. In a broader sense, the parts of the greater Bordeaux area on the right bank are also counted as Bordelais in the sense of the landscape. There it goes into the Entre deux mers . Other neighboring areas are the Sauternais in the south and the wine-growing region of Graves in the north. In the west, the Bordelais borders against the Landes de Gascogne forest from.
The term is also used for the wine-growing areas of the left Garonne bank of Médoc and Graves and separates them from the right-hand areas of the Libournais.
Historically, the Bordelais was settled by the Celts of the Bituriges Vivisci, a sub-group of the Bituriges . Even then, they were famous for viticulture, which is mentioned in Roman sources.