Bénédicte and Grégoire Hubau left the worlds of computers and chemistry, respectively, in 1988 to take over Château Moulin Pey-Labrie in the Canon Fronsac appellation, on Bordeaux's Right Bank. Soils are clay and limestone, and their farming is practicing organic. The wine is merlot from old vines (an average of 65 years old), aged for 18 months in barriques, and bottled unfined and unfiltered. The wine then aged another 13 years in bottle before arriving in our fortunate hands. We always delight in finding well-aged wines at sub-stratospheric prices, and this is a classic example in that category.
Foresty and earthy aged Bordeaux aromas are heightened by a menthol freshness and minerality that carry through on the palate. Supple tannins and a still-fresh acidity provide structure. Drink the wine from a Bordeaux stem with steak or a lentil stew.
