Château Taillefer: The Moueix Era
Antoine Moueix is a central figure in the history of Château Taillefer. Take a walk around the cellars of the estate with Catherine Moueix and I can guarantee you that you will be led to the picture of Antoine, resplendent in early 20th-century military uniform, the sort of garb that would be fine for battle on horseback, armed with a metre-long scimitar, but which surely looked increasingly incongruous as war became more mechanised.
Antoine was born in Corrèze in 1878, and as a young man he moved to Bordeaux in order to make a better life for him and his family. In doing so he was just one of a stream of agricultural folk who sought to better their lives by taking up work in the now dominant wine trade in Bordeaux; they often started out as traders and négociants, although in many cases they ended up as significant or indeed central figures in the stories of both St Emilion and Pomerol. Antoine Audy, whose descendant Jean-Baptiste Bourotte runs Clos de Clocher and Château Bonalgue, was one such individual.
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