By the middle of 19th century, EmileRemyMartin, a descendant, started bottling in addition to the traditional accident of selling by the barrel. In 1874, he conceived the company's trademark and registered it for the first time. It was a Centaur, and then it met with the catastrophe of the Portuguese aphid, which reduced the regional wine from 3.7 billion gallons in 1875 to less than half three years later.