Château Bellevue de Tayac: Vineyards
As already noted in my introduction to this profile, the cellars of Château Bellevue de Tayac are located at the side of the D2 as it cuts across Soussans, one of the five communes on the Médoc peninsula which are eligible for the Margaux appellation. Its near neighbours include all those properties which make their allegiance to the hamlet of Tayac known, most notably Château Tayac itself, which sits at the heart of the village just a couple of minutes walk to the south.
Across the northern periphery of the vineyards there runs a broad stretch of woodland, through which runs the Estey de Tayac, the channel which drains the more inland sections of the peninsula into the waters of the Gironde, just 3.5 kilometres to the east. On the far side of the channel and this woodland lie the vineyards of the Moulis-en-Médoc and Haut-Médoc appellations. This really is the very edge of Margaux.
There are just over 3.52 hectares of vines here (with, at the last count, 3.36 hectares planted and 0.16 hectares uprooted for replanting), all planted on soils of gravelly clay typical of the Labarde region, over a deeply buried bedrock of limestone.
