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CHÂTEAU PEDESCLAUX

2019 5ème Cru Classé Pauillac

Grapes Merlot, Petit Verdot, Cab Sauv, Cab Franc
Colour Red
Origin France, Bordeaux
Sub-district Haut Médoc
Village Pauillac
Classification 5ème Cru Classé
ABV 13%

Yum. This is super. Really attractive with well-cut, glossy fruit. Bright lift then a sweet line of red berries and nice weight of flesh. Well sculpted though. A gentle floral lift of violets and pretty blue flowers. This is bright and yet the fruit middle is sweet and juicy. A succulent and deeply enticing 2019 with real energetic flow. Smart Pauillac at a very sensible price. You will be delighted to find this in your cellar in 10 years time! L&S (Jun 2020)


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The 2019 Pédesclaux has a slightly smudged, rather oaky nose with a touch of brown sugar infusing the red fruit. The palate is medium-bodied with a herbaceous entry, light and lacking depth, harsh and abrasive on the finish. This is a perplexing showing from a wine that tasted so good last year. Errant bottle? Tasted blind at the Southwold annual tasting. Rating: 0 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Feb 2023)

The 2019 Pédesclaux is quirky and full of character. It offers a beguiling mix of super-ripe dark fruit and savory Cabernet coupled with accents that offer a striking counterpoint. Black cherry, chocolate, new leather, spice, tobacco, incense and scorched earth lead into the substantial finish. There's more raciness than finesse in this Pauillac, but it all works well. Drinking range: 2024 - 2034 Rating: 93 Antonio Galloni, www.vinous.com (Feb 2022)

The 2019 Pédesclaux, which is matured in 60% new oak, has a lively, classically styled bouquet of blackberry, briary, cedar and pressed violet scents, a touch of orange pith emerging with time. The palate is medium-bodied with succulent ripe black fruit, very polished and seductive. The expressive floral component lends the Margaux-like personality I remarked upon from barrel. Quite persistent in the mouth, yet accessible, this will be difficult to resist (but try). [One sample had a more briny finish than others.] Drinking range: 2024 - 2045 Rating: 93 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Feb 2022)

Château Pedesclaux

Fascinating visit here with the winemaker Catarina Freitas in 2012. Catarina showed us the map of the parcels which were owned by the property at the time that it was bought in 2009, and then two others, showing how, by purchases and swaps, they has vastly reduced the number of parcels and are consolidating the vineyard.

This was also where we first saw Alessandro Masnaghetti's maps of the area, which is a fascinating insight into where all these wines actually come from.

Catarina explained that as a result of the strength of the co-operative movement in Saint Estèphe and northern Pauillac, properties passed down though families often got split into tiny plots. The previous owner, in a rush to expand the surface area, bought what he could. Sometimes this was just a couple of rows of vines in the middle of someone else's vineyard. This made vineyard management harder, and also made it difficult to see clearly what they had at vinification - it was impossible to vinify every tiny bit separately.

Winemaking includes pre-fermentary cold maceration that can last up to an astonishing fifty days. Like properties such as Charmail, they tried using dry ice to cool the harvest so as to make sure the fermentation did not start, but from 2011 on they are using a new method, which I have not come across anywhere before, which is to hold the harvested grapes in a cold room at 3C for twenty-four hours before beginning the egrappage and final sortings and putting them into vats.

We were also shown the proposed new winery, which will use the natural slope of the built part of the property down to the Gironde. It will be built into the hill and use gravity thoughout to avoid pumping. Make no mistake, there intent is very serious here and its a name to look out for.

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