The art of vine and wine | Francois Jouison

For 32 years, my great-grandfather Jean Blanc, also known as Louis Blanc, worked at Château Rauzan-Ségla. He worked on improving the vineyard and wrote in a large notebook "The History of the Rauzan-Ségla Estate," a true bible of the property. President Jefferson himself recognized the notoriety of this wine and made it known beyond the oceans. The 1855 classification only confirmed this reputation. In this beautiful book, you will find the owners, brokers, merchants, estate managers, servants, cellar masters, winegrowers, but also the harvests, sales, vineyard work, the disease that destroyed the vineyard, barrels, bottles, transportation on the estuary, and the evolution of winemaking techniques. Not to mention the parallel path of history, from the War of the League of Augsburg to the Declaration of Independence of the United States, the French Revolution, the last two conflicts, and the modern period.