Tiny commune has more wine than people – with 24 wine shops and under 2,000 residents

Fancy visiting a place where there is more wine than people?

Now you can.

For nine months of the year, this unusual village is like a ghost town.

But for the lucky few who live here all year round, there’s enough wine to drink all day long and never run out.

Saint-Émilion is located in Southwestern France and is classed as a medieval city situated between Bordeaux, Saintonge and Périgord, reports What’s The Jam.

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With over two thousand years of history, it’s famous mostly for one thing; the wineries and vineyards.

According to the Wine Merchant Mag, there’s over 241 wine stores in the UK’s capital – one for every 40,000 people out of the 9,748,000 population.

But in this commune, there’s one shop for every 47 people.

And it’s why millions of people flock two months each year to taste the delicacies it has to offer.

According to local legend, a monk from Brittany fled from Vannes to seek refuge in one of the natural caves.

Emilion, as he is known, quickly became a notable name in the region and soon, made the __cpLocation a place of religion.

From the 9th century until the 19th century, men mined the soil in order to create the breathtaking architecture that still stands today.

Due to this, there’s 200km of underground galleries, with its vineyard proof of this.

In 1999, the vineyard was written into the World Heritage List by the UNESCO as a Cultural Landscape – one of the first in the world according to Bordeaux’s tourism website.

Now, because of its climate and sloping texture of the land, there’s certain wines which can be enjoyed to the fullest, including Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon.

To ensure excellence, there’s classifications for each bottle, which is re-examined every 10 years.Its main goal is to guarantee the origin, quality and authenticity of the village’s wines.

To oversee this, a wine commission is put in place to produce a ranking; with the final step, of course, tasting.

While there is enough wine to drown in, it’s important to drink responsibly while enjoying Saint-Émilion and all it has to offer.

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