"This wine is in perfect condition. Tannins and secondary aromas dominate this ripe, leather-textured wine. The fruit is also there: dried red berries and notes of black plum skins. This is a major wine ready to drink, with both ripe aromas and well-balanced fruit." (Wine Enthusiast 2017)
Features
Estate
Château Montus
Cuvée
Cuvée Prestige
Vintage
1999
Designation
Madiran
Region
Southwest
Grape varieties
100% Tannat
Terroirs
Steep slopes with rounded pebbles, layered subsoil of brown and orange clays, generally south-facing. Warm, draining terroirs favor high ripeness.
Viticulture
Reasoned
Harvest
Manual in crates
Winemaking
Maceration for 3 to 6 weeks, fermentation at 28°C in wooden vats, punching of the cap and malolactic fermentation in new barrels on lees.
Breeding
14 to 16 months in new barrels
Alcohol content
14%
Tasting & pairing
Nose
Rich, with notes of balsamic, cocoa and ripe fruit.
Mouth
Complex, rich and balanced between berry fruit, prune and leather aromas, balsamic and cocoa notes. Good body and powerful tannins.
Serve
Decant at 16°C
Open
1h before service
Apogée
2020-2021
Drink before
2021
Food and wine pairing
Enjoy with duck breast, venison with pepper sauce, grilled lamb, chocolate desserts...
Château Montus
Madiran
Expert opinion
Bettane & Desseauve
Rated 15.5/20 (Very good wine)
About the wine:
Marketed after long ageing, this 1999 is mature, complex, releasing still-fresh aromas of black fruits and spices, not denying its origins, structured, powerful, virile. Perfect for the table.
Guide des Vins Gault & Millau
Rated 16.5/20 (Very good)
About the wine:
Still frisky, this cuvée combines greedy fruitiness with some tertiary notes. Blackberry and blackcurrant rub shoulders with undergrowth and mushroom. All in a surprisingly fresh, mineral atmosphere, with the wine under tension.
RVF - La Revue du Vin de France / Guide des Meilleurs Vins de France
Rated (2018 guide) 14.5/20 (Good wine)
Domain rated (guide 2023) Selected (We remind you that this guide is a prize list and as such, all the domains that appear in it, even without a star, represent, in our eyes, the excellence of French production).
About the wine:
Leathery, dense, woody, woody, cocoa clean attack, fleshy, dense and powerful, woody, intense, leather, leather tar, spicy roasted length.
About the domain :
Alain Brumont develops his personality through a style that takes wines from Madiran around the world under the label of Château Montus, which he bought in 1980. Brumont's cuvées often go against conventional wisdom, demonstrating his freedom in interpreting the terroirs' yellow and red clay subsoils, with gradients ranging from 20 to 40%. Tannat expresses itself in the château's three cuvées, Prestige, XL, Montus and La Tyre, and certainly delivers the most spectacular profile of this not-easy-to-handle Pyrenean grape.
Wine Enthusiast
Wine rated (2017 guide) 95/100
Domain rated (guide 2022) Recommended (Wine producer recommended by Wine Enthusiast)
About the wine:
This wine is in perfect condition. Tannins and secondary aromas dominate this ripe, leather-textured wine. The fruit is also there: dried red berries and hints of black plum skins. This is a major wine ready to drink, with both mature aromas and well-balanced fruit.
Customer reviews
Customer rating
3.5/5
on 14 reviews
Note and review by M. FABRICE P. Published on 11/09/2020
Very disappointing wine. Already passed?
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Note and review by M. JASON S. Published on 01/09/2020
Avoid 3 bought 2 opened not drinkable
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Note and review by M. CHARLES M. Published on 07/05/2019
Disappointed by this wine (07/05/2019)
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Note and review by M. FRANCOIS J. Published on 11/03/2019
Very, very good!
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Note and review by M. SERGE E. Published on 23/01/2019
EYE: Dark ruby red with hints of tile. NOSE: Powerful aromas of leather, tobacco and dark fruit, with the mark of the barrel. PALATE: Rich and powerful, with black fruits and spices. The wine still has ageing potential
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Note and review by M. SEBASTIEN G. Published on 02/01/2019
This wine is 19 years old. It is past its prime. A little tannin remains, but the fruit has completely disappeared. It would have been preferable to market it earlier. So, big disappointment (especially at 43€ a bottle...).
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Note and review by M. VINCENT C. Published on 03/06/2021
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Note and review by M. STEPHANE S. Published on 02/05/2021
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Note and review by M. GREGORY P. Published on 15/11/2020
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Note and review by M. CHANTAL D. Published on 10/10/2020
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