A museum, unique to France, is located in the ancient cellars and storage rooms of Moulis, built in 1871. The uncommon proposes to visitors a complete inventory on wine growing and wine making, which goes from the study of the land to tasting. It does not fail to mention the complementary activities involved in the making of wine, such as barrel manufacturing, as well as the wine imagery which goes from labels to engravings and strange objects.
It is located in the heart of old Bergerac. You learn, through objects, documents and photographs, about the importance of those activities for the Bergerac population and the region economy.
Chartrons Museum
The Chartrons District, in Bordeaux, is the historical district where wine brokers and merchants established themselves. Among them many foreigners, especially coming from the Hanseatic cities of Northern Europe. From the middle of the 17th century to the early 20th century, wine, bought after the producers? harvest, was elaborated, bred and bottled in the Chartrons District cellars, and exported across the world. Set in a traditional trading house of the 18th century, a bottling workshop of that period is reconstituted there.
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