2016 | Château Pédesclaux | Pauillac Azienda Agricola Fabio Motta 36 months aging

36 months aging

Not enormously concentrated but elegant and fragrant and with a layer of very fine tannins

In the mid 90’s his encounter with Claude Bourguignon (famous microbiologist) and Claude Courtois (Domaine Les Cailloux du Paradis) helped and convinced him to further enhance the identity of his great terroir and ameliorate his winemaking

but the finish lingers with cut and drive

The finish is often long and lingering

2016 | Château Pédesclaux | Pauillac Azienda Agricola Fabio Motta 36 months agingThis really shows the heart of 2016 in the northern Mdoc it has the triumvirate of good acidity, good tannins and good fruit. It's a little austere and is going to take its time to truly get going. A second bottle proved much better for depth, as we queried rusticity on the nose of the first bottle. The second instead showed a hawthorn, hedgerow character and gorgeously rich black fruits, concentrated and focused, and given complexity by tobacco and