Tannat

Tannat – black wine grape.

Deep black, very powerful wines with lots of fruit, high acidity and a lot of tannins.
Cahors – France, together with Malbec the “vin noir” is made here: black wine.
Thanks to the “micro brulage” of Michel Roland the Cahors wine has become a lot softer.
Micro brulage is the constant adding of a small dose of oxygen to the ripening wine.

Tannat is the most important quality grape in Uruguay, where the warmth provides for the ripening making the tannins softer and the fruit in the wine more obvious.