mouton is sheep, although the chateau name is thought to derive from the old French word motte, meaning little hill). "And then I think it was maybe too revolutionary [for its time], so he stopped," says de Beaumarchais de Rothschild.At the end of the Second World War, Baron Philippe returned to the idea, this time asking the artist Philippe Jullian to create an illustration for the legendary 1945 wine.
The label commemorates the end of the Second World War and a wine made without the presence of occupying German troops (Allied Forces liberated Bordeaux in August 1944).
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