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Monday 2 January 2017

Brooding 2011 Montus – first red of 2017

 2011 Château Montus, Madiran, Alain Brumont 


We started 2017 with a slow cooked roast leg of lamb go match a fine bottle of Alain Brumont's 2011 Château Montus, Madiran. The Montus was still very deep and sombre coloured with impressively rich, concentrated black fruits and very long. An impressive bottle!    

1 comment:

Bob Rossi said...

An outstanding wine from an outstanding producer. We visited last year, and were impressed. We bought quite a bit (mostly the 2010 Chateau Bouscasse) and drank most of it in France, then brought a bottle of the Montus back. We've since managed to obtain a large quantity of the Bouscasse here in the US.