Chateau Trotte Vieille Saint Emilion Grand Cru 2017

The name is derived from the fact that there lived a lady in this chateau in the 14th century. This little lady was very interested in what was going on in the town on Bordeaux and used thus to walk down to the close-by crossing where the stagecoaches stopped on their way coming from Bordeaux. As the lady seemingly often hasted to the coaches, the people of Saint-Emilon called here "la trotte Vielle", the "old trot". This unusual name was used for the chateau already in the 15th century. Trotte Vielle is one of the oldest estates in Saint-Emilon and has some of the oldest vines of Bordeaux as some of there are pre-Phylloxera and thus more than 140 years old.