Community Tasting Note

Paul S wrote:

Thursday, October 9, 2008 - Madiran and the Wines of Alain Brumont (Vinothique, Queen's Road, Singapore): 100% Tannat, decanted 2 hours. I thought this was far and away the best wine of the night. Dark purple colour. Really lovely, layered nose that rather exploded out of the glass with complex scents of meat, leather, minerals, plums and a twist of pepper. Over time, some higher-toned, greener notes like cooked asparagus, mint and perfumed flowers and cloves emerged. While this was every bit as expressive as the normal bottling of Montus, I found it less OTT and much better put together. The palate was unfortunately not quite as wonderful as the nose! Still, it had an intense beam of flavour that seamlessly lasered its way from the attack to the long finish, showing concentrated dark fruit and ferrous mineral, before picking up a mocha tone right at the very end. Strangely though, the lovely concentrated flavours were anything but mouth-filling - this was a narrow band of intensity. I think Lawrence put it best when he said that a shift to the right or to the left meant that the lovely flavours receded. I found the edges almost watery in fact. All in all though, it was a rather lovely wine, great smooth mouthfeel with lovely balance in its velvety smooth but still grippy tannins and bright acidity keeping the wine very much alive. Went very nicely with the braised pork in dark soy sauce (Kong Bak Pao) as well.

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