A WINE-GROWING PROPERTY FOR MORE THAN 600 YEARS...
The parchment which is reproduced below dates from 1396. It tells us that at that time vines were already being cultivated on this same land at Tracy.
A FAMILY OF SCOTTISH ORIGIN...
The first members of the Scottish noble Stutt family in France were members of a large army that came from Scotland in the fifteenth century to help the future king Charles VII of France during the Hundred Years War. After naturalization their name was gallicized to become d'Estutt or Destutt.
In 1586 François Stutt, married the Lady of Tracy.
LAFAYETTE, JEFFERSON AND THE COMTE OF TRACY:
HE WAS A FRIEND OF THOMAS JEFFERSON AND LAFAYETTE...
The "Domaine de Tracy" was the property of Antoine Louis Claude Destutt, count of Tracy. One of his friends was General de La Fayette, whose son was married to his daughter Emilie. Both were elected to the States General as members of the nobility and enthusiastically took up the liberal ideas of the beginning of the Revolution.
When, after the arrest ans execution of Louis XVI, events took a more violent turn; they fell away from it and resigned.
He was a member of the Philadelphia American Philosophical Society.
... THOMAS JEFFERSON...
He was a friend of Jefferson who he probably met in Paris when Jefferson was American Ambassador. They maintained regular correspondence and Jefferson supervised the translation and publication in the United States of the works of Destutt de Tracy on constitutional problems and the defence of political freedom. They could not be distributed in France as they were of great offence to Napoléon. Other interesting works include his Review of Montesquieu's "Spirit of the laws" and an economic treatise prefaced by Thomas Jefferson (below).
HIS SON THE COMTE VICTOR DE TRACY VOTED FOR THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY....
Destutt de Tracy brought up his son Victor, who later became the first Head of the Polytechnic School, in accordance with his own principles. The latter, following a military career in the Napoleonic armies, became Naval Minister under he Restoration and was one of the deputies in France who voted for the abolition of slavery.
...AND MARRIED SARAH NEWTON.
He wedded Sarah Newton, niece of the renowned physician. She went on to write memoirs and translate texts on the life of the "Fathers of the Church".
THE FIRST BOTTLING... |
1950, RESTORATION OF THE VINEYARD...
At the beginning of the 1950s Jacqueline de Tracy married the Comte Alain d'Assay. Together they restored the vineyard.
Control has now passed to the next generation who continue in the same spirit of excellence and quality that has always prevailed.
Control has now passed to the next generation who continue in the same spirit of excellence and quality that has always prevailed.
Control has now passed to the next generation who continue in the same spirit of excellence and quality that has always prevailed.
Control has now passed to the next generation who continue in the same spirit of excellence and quality that has always prevailed.
Control has now passed to the next generation who continue in the same spirit of excellence and quality that has always prevailed.
Control has now passed to the next generation who continue in the same spirit of excellence and quality that has always prevailed.
Control has now passed to the next generation who continue in the same spirit of excellence and quality that has always prevailed.
Control has now passed to the next generation who continue in the same spirit of excellence and quality that has always prevailed.
Control has now passed to the next generation who continue in the same spirit of excellence and quality that has always prevailed.
Control has now passed to the next generation who continue in the same spirit of excellence and quality that has always prevailed.
Control has now passed to the next generation who continue in the same spirit of excellence and quality that has always prevailed.
Control has now passed to the next generation who continue in the same spirit of excellence and quality that has always prevailed.
Control has now passed to the next generation who continue in the same spirit of excellence and quality that has always prevailed.