South WEST

Chateau Montus - Bouscasse

Madiran located in Southwest France is the original terroir of the Tannat grape. Once used to be one of the secrets of Bordeaux wines, Alain Brumont, founder of Chateau Montus tamed the grape and brought it to the level of prestigious Bordeaux wines. Rated 96-98 points. A Hidden Gem.

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Founder & Wine Maker

Allan Brumont

Founder of Chateau Montus, he is reknown as the Tannat Grape king. The genius of Alain brumont has placed Madiran as a strong wine region that dares to compete with some of prestigious Bordeaux wines

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Vincent Thenaud

Master's degree in Agriculture Engineering and graduate from ESSEC Paris business school, Vincent joined the wine business 20 years ago. He worked for Moet-Hennessy group in France, Brazil and Canada before working with vineyards in Burgundy and Southwest of France. He is now based in Southwest of France.

Château Montus & Bouscasse. The story began in 1980...

Alain Brumont bought Château Montus in 1980, on the basis of the terroir's reputation in the 18th century.

With its large reddish pebbles, this terroir is one of the last traces of the beginning of the Pyrenees, dating back 40 million years. Today's Pyrenees deposit large black pebbles marbled with white in our rivers.

It is from these great hillside terroirs perched on the limestone cliffs, made up of a wonderful variety of south-western clays, that Alain Brumont produces four exceptional wines:

Bouscassé

his terroir consists of a collection of plots of fine yellow and white variegated clays on a layer of fissured limestone. On the edges are two iron-rich clay terroirs with a concretion of iron and manganese oxide.

Here is Madiran's former elegance, charm and voluptuousness, in all its 18th century glory, when it rubbed shoulders with France's greatest wines and reigned supreme over the rich cuisine of the Southwest.