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Bordelais, broadly absent from viticultural agronomic literature during the whole of the first half of the 19th century, established itself from the 1860’s onwards as a “model wine-growing region”, both for its method of wine-making and for its architecture. But with the mechanisation of the cellars at the end of the century, viticultural architecture from then on found its inspiration in other wine-growing regions, notably in Languedoc.

Jean-Baptiste Dufart is essentially known as the architect who, between 1793 and 1800, designed two major neo-classic works in the port of Bordeaux : the French Theater and the Fenwick House. But his creative ambition and the modernity which characterizes his work is also to be seen in more confidential projects such as the reconstruction of the Burck property at Ambés. From 1786, this building demonstrates the architect's innovatory and creative powers at a time when, still a young man, Dufart was not yet officially an architect. In this context, the analysis of the reconstruction of this wine-producing house serves to reveal both the ambitions and the talents of Jean-Baptiste Dufart and his innovations in the field of rural architecture, at the very beginning of his career.