Jacqueline S.

History of Saint-Emilion Paleolithic men, 30,000 years before our era, found conditions at the site of Saint-Emilion conducive to their settlement. Those of the Neolithic, between 2,300 and 10,000 BC, have left traces of their presence in our region. (Menhir de Peyrefitte). With Roman colonization, in 56 BC, the first wine amphoras were produced. Villas are built including the famous one of the poet Consul Ausone. After the collapse of Rome in the 5th century, the Goths and Alains occupied Aquitaine, then under the reign of Clovis's successors, the Catholic religion extended its influence with evangelizing monks who founded monasteries such as Lucaniac in Saint-Emilion. Milian, a former steward of Vannes, on his way to Compostela, stops in a cave near the Dordogne and settles there. When he died in 787, his disciples built the ever-present monolith church. Milian, now Emilion, gave his name to Saint-Emilion. The Benedictines prospered around the Collegiate Church of Saint-Emilion and its cloister. They need wine to celebrate Mass and develop the cultivation of vines. After being under English rule in 1152, the city obtained administrative, judicial and financial autonomy in 1199 through the creation of the Jurade de Saint-Emilion. In the 17th century, thanks to a growing demand for wines by the countries of northern Europe, viticulture progressed: a selection of grape varieties was undertaken. The notion of vintage for the best wines appears. Dissolved at the time of the French Revolution, the Jura was reborn in 1948. The first French Wine Trade Union was established in Saint-Emilion in 1884. He became wine council in 2007.