Located within the Madiran AOC, Château Bouscassé is the original home of Alain Brumont - also owner of Chateau Montus. The property spans roughly 50 hectares of vineyards. While the estate primarily focuses on red wines, boasting Tannat as its principal variety, it also cultivates two white grapes, Petit Courbu and Petit Manseng.
Chateau Bouscasse Brumaire, Pacherenc du Vic Bilh, Moelleux 50cl 2014
12% abv
Luscious, golden dessert wine. Brumaire takes its name Made with Petit Manseng in the Pyrennean foothills. Grape varieties: Petit Manseng, Petit Courbu Vieilles Vignes (30 year-old vines). Harvested in small crates. Whole bunche pressed, selection of juice directly from the press. Fermentation in new barrels at 18°C. Stopping of fermentation by cooling, depending on the desired balance. Maturing on the lees for 8 to 12 months in new barrels with batonnage.
There are three different Bouscasse cuvées of sweet Pacherenc, according to the harvest date (October, November or December) named after the months of the French Revolutionary Calendar: Vendémiaire, Brumaire and Frimaire where the months described the season. These three cuvées are harvested according to specific natural degrees of sweetness:
18° for Vendémiaire (literally grape harvest – so full ripeness), 19° for this Brumaire (mist – so late harvest) and 20° for Frimaire (frost – so harvest at the very end of autumn) .
- Reference #:
- 23698
- Strength
- 12 ABV
- Bottles per Case
- 6 bottles
- Grapes
- Courbu, Petit Manseng
- Organic
- No
- Biodynamic
- No
- Vegan
- Yes
- Vegetarian
- Yes
- Sparkling
- No

