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Bin 380 Madiran AC Cuvée Charles de Batz Domaine Berthomieu 2001~Bin 380 Madiran AC Cuvée Charles de Batz Domaine Berthomieu 2001~~~14909~14910~~

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description~GOLD MEDAL + TANNAT TROPHY + GREAT VALUE AWARD in the INTERNATIONAL WINE CHALLENGE 2004.
What a stunner! Superb! We had this on taste at Harrogate Wine Show in the summer and the response was very enthusiastic. Madiran can be a bit tough when young, but this top cuvée made from older vines (more than 50 years old) with 90% Tannat and 10% Cabernet Sauvignon aged in new oak barrels is rich and smooth - with tannins which are gentle and generous. Intensely inky black colour, fat and generous tannins, spicy with hints of elderberry, plums and cocoa and tobacco.
"In this Tannat-dominated blend, the typically chunky tannins are interwoven with flavours and scents of black damsons, flowers, blueberries and creosote! Round, textured and concentrated with a long finish". Don't be put off by the "creosote" mention - it is the pure fruit concentration and mellow tannins which make this a real blockbuster, and although it is clearly a "BIG" wine, it is gentle with your mouth and tastebuds.
And to top it all - this wine also gets a GOOD VALUE RED award - a gold medal wine for under £12.50 - and we sell at below the guide price in WINE MAGAZINE!
Charles de Batz was the real soldier who was immortalised as d'Artagnan - one of the Three Musketeers of Alexandre Dumas' novels. This area was the home of the musketeers under the reign of Louis XIV. ~~~14909~14914~~