{"id":18388,"count":1,"description":"Graves (\u00a0\/\u02c8\u0261r\u0251\u02d0v\/; from French: 'gravelly land') is an important subregion of the Bordeaux wine region. Graves is situated on the left bank of the Garonne river, in the upstream part of the region, southeast of the city Bordeaux and stretch over 50 kilometres (31\u00a0mi). Graves is the only Bordeaux subregion which is famed for all three of Bordeaux' three main wine types\u2014reds, dry whites and sweet wines\u2014although red wines dominate the total production. Graves AOC is also the name of one Appellation d'origine contr\u00f4l\u00e9e (AOC) which covers most, but not all of the Graves subregion.\nThe area encompasses villages including Sauternes, Pessac, Talence, L\u00e9ognan, Martillac, Saint-Morillon, and Portets.\nThe name Graves derives from its intensely gravelly soil. The soil is the result of glaciers from the Ice Age, which also left white quartz deposits that can still be found in the soil of some of the top winemaking estates.\nThe Graves is considered the birthplace of claret. Graves wine production...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/graves\/","name":"Graves","slug":"graves","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/18388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=18388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}