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Chateau Pedesclaux is a winery in the Pauillac appellation of the Bordeaux region of France. The wine produced here was classified as one of eighteen Cinquimes Crus (Fifth Growths) in the Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855.
The Chateau was founded in 1810 by winebroker Pierre Urbain Pedesclaux, who passed it to his son Pierre-Edmond in 1849. After his death his widow continued to run the Chateau until 1891, when the estate was sold to the Count de Gastebois. In 1930, Lucien Jugla became tenant, and eventually purchased the Chateau in 1950. In 1960, Lucien Jugla added Chateau Belle-Rose, a 13.7-hectare estate which he had been farming since 1943, to Pedesclaux. Belle-Rose's bourgeois building became the home of the classified growth and appeared on the new labels.
In 2009, the estate was purchased by Jacky Lorenzetti, who also owns Chateau Lilian Ladouys in Saint-Estphe and 50% of Chateau d'Issan in Margaux. Lorenzetti enlarged the vineyards with the purchase of 12 hectares of Medoc vines that are situated next to parcels owned by Chateau Lafite Rothschild and Chateau Mouton Rothschild.
The vineyard covers an area of 50 hectares and produces about 8,000 cases of wine every year. The Chateau has 44 hectares in Pauillac, but also two hectares in the Haut-Medoc area. Wines from Pedesclaux are composed of roughly 47% Cabernet Sauvignon, 48% Merlot, 3% Petit Verdot and 2% Cabernet Franc. However the 2017 contained a whopping 65% Cabernet Sauvignon and 7% Cabernet Franc! Vincent Bache-Gabrielsen is the technical director and has taken Chateau Pedesclaux to new levels since 2014, using upwards of 60% new oak, bottle with fining but no filtration.
The estate produces three wines: the first wine, Chateau Pdesclaux, the second wine, Fleur de Pedesclaux and finally a third wine, Le Haut-Mdoc de Pedesclaux, sold under the Haut-Mdoc appellation.
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