21st Century
"Everything is a matter of secret in the industries and commerce in South western France. Money can't buy secret ; on the contrary, the secrets bring the money; reason, justice or science didn't make the Bordeaux wine, (...) it is all coming from secret."
Jacques Chardonne, L'amour c'est beaucoup plus que de l'amour, 1957.
Jacques Chardonne, Ecole de Barbezieux, who married the daughter of a Bordeaux Wine Merchant. He was one of the favourite author of a French President.
One of the secrets of the wine of Bordeaux : château Veyry, above Castillon village