Moulis

It is undoubtedly because of the presence on its territory of many mills - water and wind - now disappeared or ruined, that this commune bears the name of Moulis, deformation of the words of Latin origin, molinis, mola. And if this name attests to the fact that cereals were cultivated here, we also know that from the Middle Ages onwards, vines were established here by a few owners and an important religious community. Its vineyard is undoubtedly one of the oldest in the Médoc.

Moulis also has one of the most beautiful Romanesque churches in the Médoc. Léo Drouyn, a famous aquafortist archaeologist of the last century, considered its chevet to be "the richest in the Gironde".

Moulis commanded a vast archpriesthood, its name radiated throughout the Gironde. A legend, reported by Alain Viaut, says that Moulis was in competition with Rome to become the seat of Christianity. Fate was against it... says the legend. Fortunately... Thus, the vineyard was able to grow and its reputation was established alongside other neighboring wine-producing communes, particularly during the 18th and 19th centuries.

Located in the heart of the Médoc, Moulis spreads out in the form of gentle slopes in an east-west strip - perpendicular to the Gironde - of a dozen kilometers.

Its terroir is made up of hillocks of Garonne gravel (ancient Quaternary) linked together by gravelly soils, resting on a clay-limestone base, or clay-marl soils, resting on a stone base, which lend themselves admirably to vine growing.

Thus, the soil is sandy-gravelly and almost flat in the south-west, clayey-gravelly and clayey-marlous towards the south and the west, more uneven towards the center and the north-east where it is either clayey-limestone, or clayey-gravelly as towards the "Grand Poujeaux".

The subsoil is composed of pure gravel on the eastern side, gravel, marl or alios towards the south-west, marl and limestone near the town where we find rubble containing numerous fossils.

Given the complexity of its terroirs, strictly selected for their determining influence on the quality of the wines, Moulis-en-Médoc gives an exceptional synthesis of the great wines or crus of the Médoc.