Château Doisy Daëne is

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producer located in the commune of Barsac. Its sweet white wine ranked as Second Cru Classé (French, “Second Growth”) in the original

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. It belongs to the Sauternes

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, in the region of

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History

The three Doisy wine estates, Château Doisy Daëne,

Château Doisy-Védrines Château Doisy-Védrines is a sweet white wine ranked as Second Cru Classé (French, “Second Growth”) in the original Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855. Belonging to the Sauternes appellation in Gironde Gironde ( , US usuall ...

, Château Doisy-Dubroca, originate from one single estate, the early history and division of which is not very well documented. The earliest documented mention of the Doisy wine cru is in

André Jullien André Jullien (1766 at Chalon-sur-Saône, Saône-et-Loire – 1832 of cholera in Paris) was a French vintner and pioneering wine writer. Wine historian Hugh Johnson describes Jullien's work as "the foundation-stone of modern writing about wi ...

s book ''Topographie de tous les vignobles connus'' in 1832. The Daëne part of the name comes from Jean Jacques Emmanuel Daëne, who was the vineyard owner and a wine merchant in Bordeaux, and who at some stage bought one of three portions of the estate. J.J.E. Daëne's three sons inherited the wine estate in 1875, and in the same year they sold a portion of it the Dubroca brothers of Doisy-Dubroca. In 1878 Doisy Daëne was sold to Jean Paul Billot, and his daughter Pauline inherited it in 1884, and sold it to the Debans brothers in 1889. From 1924 Château Doisy Daëne has been owned by the Dubourdieu family. Georges Dubourdieu acquired it from the Debans heirs in 1924. Georges stayed in control until 1949, when his son Pierre Dubourdieu took over. One of Pierre Dubourdieu's innovations, in the early 1950s, was to start also making a dry white wine, the first in the Sauternes area. In 2000, Pierre's son

Denis Dubourdieu Denis Dubourdieu (July 1, 1949 – July 26, 2016) was a French winemaker and professor of oenology at the University of Bordeaux. He managed or co-managed several properties in Bordeaux, including Château Reynon, Château Doisy Daëne, Château ...

took over the control estate. In 1990 and as a result of an experiment, Denis had introduced l'Extravagant de Doisy Daëne, a concentrated wine of higher sweetness than usual Sauternes, produced from highly botrytised grapes

Vineyards

Doisy Daëne has of vineyards, planted with 86%

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and 14%

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. Until the 2008 vintage, there was also a small amount of

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in the vineyards.

Wines

Doisy Daëne produces three wines: * Château Doisy Daëne, its sweet Sauternes wine, in composition close to the average of the estate's vineyards; * Grand Vin Sec du Château Doisy Daëne, a dry Bordeaux Blanc from 100% Sauvignon blanc and aged 8 months in oak barrels of which 20% new oak; * L'Extravagant de Doisy Daëne, an extra sweet Sauternes produced in some vintages. 45% to 80% Sémillon and 20% to 55% Sauvignon blanc depending on the vintage.

References

External links

Château Doisy Daëne official website
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