sentences:  The village was able to withstand the attack and King John rewarded the Bourgeois with orders for wine in excess of 120 tons.In 1224, King Louis VIII of France attempted to purge the English from French soil and was halted in his advance in the town of Bordeaux.In the aftermath Bordeaux received privileged access to the English market through London, and their exports to the market soon dwarfed the production from other French wine making regions.