Alain Brumont Château Montus Cuvée Prestige Madiran AOC

In the southwest of France, in Madiran, the Romans were already cultivating wine; Benedictine monks from Bordeaux brought the small-berried Tannat grape in the 11th century. Today, the highly unconventional winemaker Alain Brumont primarily cultivates this ancient indigenous grape variety on 180 hectares. He focuses on the best parcels of the terroir, in Montus with its rocky, steep southern slopes, in the Boucassé plateaus with ironstone and manganese soils, and in Gascony with its limestone subsoil. Brumont has managed to tame the highly astringent Tannat, which has a high tannin content, and he processes it in new barriques into elegant, discreet, and extremely long-lasting wines with robust fruit.