{"title":"Château Montus \u0026 Bouscassé — The Brumont Collection","description":"Madiran's Defining Producer\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Alain Brumont bought Château Montus in 1980, the Madiran appellation in southwest France was a backwater and Tannat — its native grape — was considered too tannic and rustic to make serious wine. Five years later, Brumont's first vintage of Montus Prestige, made entirely from Tannat and aged in 100% new oak, was being called \u003cem\u003e\"the Pétrus of Madiran\"\u003c\/em\u003e by international tasters. Wine Advocate scored the 1995 Prestige 96 points. Gault-Millau named Brumont Best French Winegrower of the 1980s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eForty years later, Brumont still runs Châteaux Montus and Bouscassé. The underground cellar he built in 1995 holds 2,000 barrels and is known as \u003cstrong\u003e\"The Cathedral of Tannat.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e The flagship wine, La Tyre, is drawn from a 10-hectare hillside parcel he identified in 1990 as the finest terroir in the appellation — at 260m elevation, with rolled stones over red clay subsoil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat's in this Collection\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMr.D Wine Merchant has assembled the most complete Brumont vertical in our market — from the 1998 XL and 1999 Prestige (genuinely difficult bottles to source in the US) through current releases of Montus Red and the Torus and Le Blanc d'Alain entry wines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCellar Tier\u003c\/strong\u003e — Aged library releases (XL 1998, Prestige 1999, Bouscassé Old Vines 2002 magnum, La Tyre 2015) for the collector and the special-occasion drinker.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSignature Tier\u003c\/strong\u003e — Current and recent releases of Prestige, Montus Red in magnum, and Bouscassé Old Vines for the everyday cellar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDiscovery Tier\u003c\/strong\u003e — The classic Montus Red, Montus Blanc, the Brumaire dessert wine, the Bouscassé Pinot Noir, and the Torus and Le Blanc d'Alain — accessible introductions to the producer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eFor Cellar Comparison\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you collect Bordeaux from the 1990s and 2000s, you already know what 25 years in bottle does to a structured, tannic wine built for the cellar. Montus is built on exactly that template — at a fraction of the price of equivalent classified-growth Bordeaux. Tannat, with its concentration and acidity, has near-infinite aging potential.\u003c\/p\u003e]]\u0026gt;","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/www.mrdwine.com\/collections\/chateau-montus-bouscasse-the-brumont-collection.oembed","provider":"Mr.D Wine Merchant","version":"1.0","type":"link"}