The wine exists since several millenniums, we found ancient jars of more than 8 000 years BC containing cultivated grape peps and residues of tartaric acid. We do not know at present if this product was really some wine or simply some grape juice.

In ancient Egypt, we know that the vine growing was very organized. Osiris in Egypt, Dionysus in Greece, Bacchus and the roman people, Gilgamesh in Babylon represent the wine or its collection in the mythology. The wine, such as the product of a fruit, the grape, comes essentially from the plant called  "vitis vinifera", which counts numerous varieties, called grape varieties (cépage) in France.

Other vitis, riparia, rupestris or berlandieri kinds serve to produce rootstocks: the part of the vine stock which is in the ground. The wines made with these vitis is unpleasant often " Foxy " and without good organoleptic interest far from wines which we produce now in Saint Emilion.