Mont Tauch Fitou "Chasse Garde" 2006

Set at the base of the impressive 2,900 foot high Mont Tauch mountain, the internationally renowned Mont Tauch Cooperative is the only producer to have vineyards in the 3 inland Fitou villages of Tuchan, Paziols and Villeneuve. This is the first time that grapes from the 3 villages have come together in a wine expressing the best from each village.

The 2006 Mont Tauch Fitou "Chasse Gardee" has a beautiful nose of loose unsweetened cocoa powder, tart cherries and a touch of forest floor.  The palate shows a velvety texture that is easy drinking with mellowed tannins and bright fresh blackberry and ripe cherry fruit.  It's rustic, but not too herbal or earthy. It's delightful, pleasurable and at this price you can easily make it your new house wine.

 2006 Mont Tauch Fitou "Chasse Gardee"  $11

 

meet the winemakers

Mont Tauch
www.mont-tauch.com

Named after the mountain, which towers above the cooperative’s state-of-the-art new winery, Mont Tauch is surrounded by wild garrigue - the Mediterranean terrain rich with the scent of thyme, rosemary, lavender and juniper. Mont Tauch has 250 growers, each one passionate about the quality of the grapes they grow, each one with their individual character and stories to tell. For most of them, the vineyards have been in the family for generations and to protect this exceptional environment, the growers adhere to strict principles of sustainable agriculture.

So what does this mean really? it's a group of small farmers too small to produce or make wine on their own and instead of selling their juice or grapes to some large conglomerate they opted to ban together and make great tasting wines from the Languedoc that we get to drink - go Mont Tauch!