2013-CHÂTEAU-DOISY-DAËNE-2ème-Cru-Classé-Barsac

CHÂTEAU DOISY DAËNE

2013 2ème Cru Classé Barsac

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Colour White
Origin France, Bordeaux
Village Barsac
Classification 2ème Cru Classé
ABV 13%

Very delicate mix of Sauvignon 'smoke' and pure lemon cream. Very fresh and crystalline. Lovely purity. Superb. Creamy, mildly caramel and honey finish. Rating: 93 L&S (Apr 2014)

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The 2013 Doisy-Daëne is quite pale in colour. The nose is simple with fresh dried honey and honeysuckle scents, although it is missing some weight and complexity. The palate is much better with bitter orange and mango on the entry, fine acidity (which Jean-Jacques Dubourdieu attributes to the cold conditions). It is not complex but it has "lilting charm" on the finish. Drink over the next 10 years. Tasted at the vertical at Doisy-Daëne. Drinking range: 2021 - 2031 Rating: 89 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Jan 2022)

Plump and forward, this delivers peach, nectarine and candied lemon peel notes gilded with lots of honeysuckle and heather. A flash of bitter almond helps streamline everything through the racy finish. Drinking range: 2017 - 2027 Rating: 94 James Molesworth, The Wine Spectator (Jan 2016)

Palish yellow-gold. High-toned but closed on the nose today, hinting at honey, lime, ginger and grilled nuts. Then quite pure and aromatic in the mouth, offering flavors of fresh citrus fruits, saffron and honey complicated by a botrytis-related smoky bitterness. Perfumed and nicely delineated on the long finish, showing lively snap thanks to zippy acidity. Lovely wine. Rating: 90-92 Ian d'Agata - Stephen Tanzer website

Château Doisy Daëne

Barsac Deuxième cru 1855 As one might expect, there was originally one Doisy estate. Sometime in the earlier 19th Century, it was divided into three parts - the larger part became Doisy-Vedrines, and two smaller parts became the rarely encountered Doisy-Dubroca and, the part purchased by Jean-Jacques Emmanuel Daëne, Doisy-Daëne. Jean-Jacques' sons later sold another portion of Doisy-Daëne to Doisy-Dubroca. Georges Dubourdieu bought Doisy-Daëne in 1924, and his family still own it to this day. The little over 16ha of vineyard sit sandwiched between Châteaus Coutet and Climens, and are planted with 87% Semillon, 12% Sauvignon Blanc and 1% Muscadelle. The Grand Vin is fermented in stainless-steel, but aged in wood, producing a style that is finer and cleaner than many other wines of the region. It would sit easily alongside the Premier Crus from the area, making Doisy-Daëne a sort of Barsac "super-second". In better vintages, a super-cuvée - L'Extravagant de Doisy Daëne - that rivals Yquem is produced from very late-picked grapes. Pierre Dubourdieu (Georges' son) was not so much interested in the classic dessert wines of the region as dry wines and under his stewardship, in 1949, Doisy-Daëne became the first Sauternes/Barsac producer to make a dry white. This 100% barrel-fermented Sauvignon Blanc is still produced in small quantities, although the modern generation place more appropriate emphasis on the sweeter end of the spectrum.

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