ACROSS THE BARBANNW: Bordeaux Right Bank has its own Right Bank.There, four satellite appellations reflect St-Emilion's lustrous glow.

摘要

Wine lovers who have visited St-Emilion and gone chateaux-hopping for wines within the matrix of narrow roads north of the famous wine capital have probably noticed that, after a couple of kilometers, the land begins gradually sloping away from the medieval town and down toward a small stream. Those who linger a few days may have even crossed the stream -it seems ambitious to call it a river - on their way to dinner in one of those interesting restaurants in the little hill town of Montagne.It is called the Barbanne, although few except the locals know that or that the Barbanne flows northwest for only a few more minutes before joining the river Isle just before the latter becomes part of the Dordogne at Libourne.