“The different juices, including the auto-pressing, the cuvée, and the taille, are then collected and poured into either oak or cement measuring vats called belons.”

“Nevertheless, in most provinces, nobles continued to escape the oldest basic direct tax, the taille, not to mention forced labour on the roads.”

“The main direct tax, the taille, was levied on persons in central provinces, but on land in peripheral ones like Languedoc.”