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At the end of the 19th century, Château Beaulieu became the property of Emile Maufras. A laureate of the Bordeaux Academy and member of the society of historical archives of Aunis and Saintonge and of the society of historical archives of the Gironde, Émile Maufras is a local scholar. He wrote there in 1904 a history of Bourg sur Gironde where he discovered in the vineyard a polished stone ax and powdered arrows dating from the Neolithic era.
Creation of the appellation "Côtes de bourg" by the Civil Court of Blaye on January 6, 1926. To be eligible for this appellation, the harvesters must belong to the canton of Bourg and their wine must come from clay-limestone or gravelly hillsides planted with noble grape varieties. The wines of Château Beaulieu have always enjoyed a good reputation which led to the property being cited as a "cru bourgeois" in 1868 by Edouard Feret, in the 2nd Edition of “Bordeaux and its wines”. Defined initially by a judgment of the civil court of Blaye in 1926, the appellation “Bourg”, “Côtes de Bourg” or “Region of Bourgeais” is reserved for all the red wines of the canton. The decree of September 11, 1936 established the controlled label of origin. |
Château Beaulieu winery laying in the sunset
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