The Doisy Growth is mentioned for the first time in the “Topographie de tous les vignobles connus” by André Jullien (1832). Doisy is among the twenty growth of first class of Bordeaux white wines.
Daëne is ranked by Charles Cocks in 1846 among the four first class Barsac growth along with Coutet, Climens and Myrat. In 1850, the same author ranked it among the top eleven Bordeaux white estates. The name Doisy-Daëne comes from the contraction...
The composition of the soil of the Barsac plateau is from a geological standpoint unique in the Bordeaux region . A thin layer of clayey sands, known as "Barsac red sands", tops the limestone subsoil. This lightly cracked calcareous bed rock limits the rooting depth of the vine to about twenty inches.
The water that got stored within the slightly porous rock throughout the winter, is progressively dispensed to the vine during the summer, pre...
Traditional ploughing is performed on the soil of our vineyard and no weed-killer is used. Organic manures are made with vegetal-based composts. Bud removal, trellising and leaf removal are carefully done by hand.
We are engaged in a process of abandonment of the use of chemical synthetic pesticides on all of our vineyards.
Thus "grown like in a garden", within an orderly and well preserved environment, our vines produce early concentrated...
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