Le Barreur
Le Barreur is Romain Duteuil, a mathematician who bottles armagnac out of a van that used to belong to the French fire service.
He is married to Caroline Rozes, who with her sister is behind two estates PM already imports, Domaine d'Aurensan and Chateau de Leberon. Romain started out helping bottle their armagnac, got interested, and kept digging. He now buys single casks from small growers and bottles them himself, on site, at cask strength. He describes the job as standing between a tiny distiller and the rest of the world.
Nicolas and Romain sat in the same maths class in prepa, years before either of them was in spirits. Romain was the better mathematician. They lost touch. Then PM started importing Aurensan and Leberon, and it turned out Romain had married Caroline.
PM Spirits is the United States importer for Le Barreur armagnac.
How it is made
In the early 1990s the Gers Chamber of Agriculture and the BNIA replanted Armagnac's forgotten grape varieties at Chateau de Mons, thirty ares of each. First harvest 1995. Each variety was vinified and distilled separately, then left in seasoned oak and never topped up. Baco later secured its place in the appellation, the experiment stopped mattering, and a few casks stayed in the warehouse.
Romain found them. Each is bottled exactly as it came out of its cask: one grape, one cask, full proof, nothing added and nothing blended.
None of these four grapes has been released on its own before. Nobody has tasted them as single casks at full proof, and certainly not at this age. They were distilled in 1996 and 1997 and bottled in 2026.
The expressions
Les Tresors du Chateau de Mons, The Forgotten Grapes Series. Four single casks, bottled at cask strength in 700ml.
Clairette de Gascogne. MONS 1996, single cask 13, 30 years in oak. 49.3% ABV. 228 bottles.
Meslier St Francois. MONS 1996, single cask 15, 30 years in oak. 49.6% ABV. 210 bottles.
Jurancon. MONS 1996, single cask 14, 30 years in oak. The strongest of the four. 51.4% ABV. 306 bottles.
Plant de Graisse. MONS 1997, single cask 19, 29 years in oak. 49.6% ABV. 252 bottles.
In the press
Jason Wilson reviewed the series in Everyday Drinking in November 2026 and called them "truly outstanding": Everyday Drinking: Armagnac, Anthropic, and Artie Bucco. His tasting notes are for subscribers, so read the original on Substack.
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Packing
All four ship in 6 x 700ml cases.
Clairette de Gascogne, PMR-LBRCDG-70. Meslier St Francois, PMR-LBRMSF-70. Jurancon, PMR-LBRJUR-70. Plant de Graisse, PMR-LBRPDG-70.
For wholesale orders, email info@pmspirits.com or call 347 689 4414. Out of state wholesalers can go straight to our US Market Manager, Meryl Cocuzza, at meryl@pmspirits.com. All the ways to reach us are on the contact page.
Le Barreur is part of the PM Spirits national import portfolio.