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Wine Description
The Story
Location & History: The Château Doisy-Daëne, Second Classified Growth in 1855, located in Barsac in the Sauternes appellation, is in the Dubourdieu family since 1924. For more than eighty years, three generations of winemakers have worked from father to son to make great sweet wines: Georges (1924-1948), Pierre (1949-1999) and Denis since 2000.
How was this wine born?
The first vintage of the Doisy-Daëne Extravagant is 1990. Pierre Dubo...
Wine Information
Blend: 60% Sémillon - 40% Sauvignon Blanc
Winemaking: The harvest, carried out by experienced harvesters, requires 3 to 6 passages, to pick, at ideal stage, the grains concentrated by the "noble rot". For three quarters of a century, progress'nological and reasoned tradition combine their effects to express the character of the grapes of Doisy-Daëne. This know-how results in a surprisingly minimalist process. Extracts by slow pressings, pur...
Vintage 2010
Drought and cool temperatures contribute to optimal ripeness
The sum of summer temperatures in 2010 was close to that of summer 2009 (962°C compared to 982°C), but significantly colder than those of 2005, which totaled 1052°C. These cool temperatures had a substantial influence on the balance of our wines, preserving a good level of acidity and an attractive aromatic freshness.
Very little precipitation (only 267 mm) from March to August...
