Comte Tolosan: Domaine Roumagnac Authentique White

First cultivated by the Romans, the South West is one of France's largest wine-producing regions, encompassing a vast and varied area to the west of (but not including) Bordeaux. Its local rivers, such as the Garonne and Dordogne, once played an important role in transporting the wines to market, though having to pass through Bordeaux and its protective trade laws left the region long overshadowed by its famous neighbour. Today, the South West is celebrated for its sweet, dry, and sparkling whites and its robust reds, made from an exceptional diversity of local grape varieties rarely found elsewhere. Its varying climates and elevations produce some genuinely distinctive and characterful wines.

A broad regional IGP covering the whole of South-West France, from the vineyards around Toulouse and the Garonne valley across to the foothills of the Pyrenees. As a flexible, catch-all designation sitting below the region's many AOCs, it gives growers considerable freedom in grape varieties and blending, producing red, white, rosé, and sometimes sparkling wines. The reds and rosés draw on the South West's rich array of local grapes - such as Négrette, Fer Servadou, Tannat, and Cot (Malbec) - alongside the Cabernets and Merlot, while the whites feature varieties like Colombard, Gros Manseng, Mauzac, and Sauvignon Blanc.