Échats of Bordeaux
Under the Ancien Mode the échats of Bordeaux are municipal rights on the entry of the wines downtown.
In 1667, the tax was of 12 pots for a barrel (300 liters) for the wine intended for the innkeepers, but of 6 pots for the wine intended for the domestic consumption of the middle-class men. The fraud was considerable, the middle-class men, protected by the municipal council (the jurade), selling part of their wine, at a cheap rate, with the innkeepers.
To support the wines of the Seneschalsy of Bordeaux the wines produced upstream of Langon, were prohibited of entry before Christmas and were to have to leave the warehouses before September 8th. The wines coming from the Resident of Agen, Bazadais, Condomois and Périgord were penalized. They were to be transported in smaller and ringed barrels sapwood or of hazel tree in order to locate the source of it and to make them transportable with more difficulty towards England and Holland.
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