Gold medal to the International Challenge of the Wine 2003
Money medal to the World Contest, Brussels 2003
Money medal CNCP, Nuits-Saint-Georges 2003
 

The musketeer got dressed with lace : Tannat, type of vine typically Gascon which makes the fame of the wines of Madiran gives him its impetuous and impetuous character. The turn of force of Laougué 2001 is to reconcile this character affirmed with a large smoothness. The wood pigeons and the boletus have only with good to be held, this Laougué is indeed the wine of the autumn !

Let us taste it together:

Eye: Wrap ruby of a very major colour, nuances going from the bluish black to a color crimson and carmine on the edge of glass. The wine is brilliant and opaque by its density. It also presents a beautiful concentration.
Nose: Very very concentrated ripe black fruit notes, blackcurrant, blackberries, bilberry, with also of the more subtle notes of liquorice and peony. After a few minutes arrive of the incense flavours, of prune, pupils and fresh grape skins. The wine on these varietal flavours, is marked very little today by the breeding and thus very accessible.
Stop: A flexible attack and suave very quickly raised by a refreshing freshness. Then come the fine and firm tanins which prolong the gustatory feeling prodigiously. One finds as flaveurs all the black fruit flavours which we had with the nose. The unit is of a large smoothness and offers an excellent length.

Met-wines agreement: Salmi of wood pigeons, ox Coast to marrow sauce with shallots, loin of lamb sarladaise, stew of young wild boar.
Keep: 2012. Apogee: 2008. To drink out of carafe (2 hours front) with 17°

From which does it come?
We have followed this field for three years, and yet it does not cease surprising us, just like it causes the enthusiasm of the specialized press (in particular of the Guide Hatchet).
Exploited since several generations, the Laougué Field belongs to Pierre Dabadie, one of the great figures of Madiran name. Under the crook of Stéphane Castro, the oenologist of the field, an attentive work is carried out in the vine as with the wine storehouse. The 45 hectares of the field are gathered the grapes manually, then the grape is sorted by type of vine and pieces, the made-to-order of a Great Vintage. The wines are then high to some extent out of barrels, to some extent out of tanks cement in order to respect the typicity of the soils and type of vine . Stéphane Castro works out filling with enthusiasm wines thus, and always surprising.