The southwest region of France was first cultivated by the Romans and had a flourishing wine trade just as long as that of Bordeaux. In fact is was also a part of the Gallia Aquitania province that extended from Toulouse to Bordeaux. The green and generous land of Gascony nestled at the food of the Pyrenees and on the doorstep of the Atlantic had dedicated practically all of its slopes and valleys to the art of the vine. The beautifully preserved mosaics dating from the Gallo Roman site of Se viac in Montre al du Gers show that vineyards were planted in Gascony over 1600 years ago.