MADIRAN VIEILLES VIGNES 1999, CHâTEAU BOUSCASSé

TASTING NOTES

"This is really excellent value: it’s unusual to find fully mature wines at this price level, and yet this style of wine demands at least 10 years in the bottle. The wine tastes a little like an old Bordeaux: light in alcohol, nicely receded tannins, some sweet fruit and all enclosed in gentle tertiary flavours of leather and cedar. But despite this, with its structure and density, it is most certainly a Madiran at its peak." - Harry Watkins, Wine Advisor.

The Bouscassé 1999 is predominantly Tannat with some Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc blended in to help round the wine. This is a wine designed for cellaring, so 12 years on it is just approaching its drinking window. It has an opaque black colour, a reticent but intriguing bouquet of spicy new oak, smoke, vanillin, and black-cherries, great concentration and richness, medium to full body, and plenty of tannin in the finish.

PRODUCER NOTES

Located in the town of Maumusson, Château Bouscassé is the family estate of Alain Brumont. He was born there and started as a winemaker in 1978 when he took over from his father Alban Brumont. The vineyard covers 17 hectares.
Since 1988, Alain Brumont Bouscassé built a new vinification room and a huge underground cellar funded by an ingenious system of sharing of local businesses. The soil of Bouscassé, sitting on clay-limestone, makes powerful wines, full, balanced and rich. Composed of 65% Tannat complemented by Cabernet sauvignon, Château Bouscassé's Madiran is remarkably fruity with intense aromas of ripe red berries.

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