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  • Country ranking ?

    681
  • Producer ranking ?

    5
  • Decanting time

    3h
  • When to drink

    From 2020
  • Food Pairing

    Goat's cheese

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The Story

Doisy-Daëne produces a great Sauternes wine along with distinguished and unusual dry white Bordeaux: Grand Vin Sec du Château Doisy-Daëne.

During the great vintages, Doisy-Daëne produces a famous and rare cuvée of unequaled richness: L'Extravagant.

White vineyard

Replanted in its vast majority between the 50's and 60's, the Doisy-Daene vineyard is over forty years old. It is currently 18,2hectares wide. With a density of 7,000 plants ...

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Vintage 2015

Full report of Bordeaux 2015 by Andrew Caillard MW “Next in line in a great series of vintages; 2000, 2005, 2009, 2010 and 2015.

 

2015 is a wonderful Bordeaux vintage without the hype or hysteria associated with 2009 and 2010. The wines are generally expressive and generous with wonderful concentration and structure. Given another year in barrel, the wines should gain more complexity and fruit volume. Châteaux, in all sub-regions, are e...

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Written Notes

Doisy Daëne - big one, lot of everything like sweetness of fruit and acidity, complexity, structure and length. Finishes with acacia honey flavor. 94p
  • 94p
Intense yellow colour with green hue. Slightly closed character on the nose, citrus fruit, lime-zest, candied lemon-peel, hints of tropical fruit. On the palate well structured with good balance of acidity and sweetness, fresh acidity, succulent fruit and convincing length.
  • 94p
Medium pale colour. Lemon grapefruit pith honey aromas with savoury oak notes. Well concentrated wine with honey lemon glacé flavours, superb viscosity and ginger oak flavours. Finishes chalky with plenty of lemon glacé notes. Some al dente, bitter, tonic water notes add to the complexity and interest. Bloody good. 96 points
  • 96p
Pale lemon yellow. Apricots, pineapples, minerals, vanilla, detailed and precise nose, fresh acidity, fresh, fruity, intense, precise and detailed, nuanced, lovely balance, long. 94-96
  • 95p
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Sauternes, Bordeaux
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