VILLAGE DE MADIRAN

The history of Madiran begins in the 11th century with the installation of the Benedictine monks who founded the Priory of Madiran. Its Sainte Marie church has been listed as a historical heritage site since 1996. A flowery village, Madiran also has a very beautiful market hall and 18th century bourgeois houses.

Madiran is a name known internationally, not for its heritage, its sweetness of life, no, but because this village has given its name to a wine "Le Madiran".

On these steep hillsides of the Adour, in the shadow of the mineral beauty of the Pyrenees, a handful of winegrowers have been working and innovating for nearly ten centuries, clergymen in the Middle Ages, then Gascon nobles or farmers in the 17th century and finally , bold entrepreneurs in the 20th century. A slow and silent revolution has taken place in Madiran, that of the conquest of a perfect symbiosis between a grape variety and a terroir. This grape variety is Tannat, which has found so few favorite lands.

You will only find 3,500 hectares at most in the world of this vine, which likes clay and pebbles and whose vigor imposes an iron discipline to give the best.

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