The Château Grand-Puy Ducasse of Pauillac of Bordeaux

Château Grand-Puy Ducasse - Dauphin Pauillac
The winery offers 11 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
This estate is part of the CA Grand Crus.
It is ranked in the top 33 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Pauillac in the region of Bordeaux

The Château Grand-Puy Ducasse is one of the world's great estates. It offers 11 wines for sale in of Pauillac to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Grand-Puy Ducasse wines

Looking for the best Château Grand-Puy Ducasse wines in Pauillac among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château Grand-Puy Ducasse wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Château Grand-Puy Ducasse wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Château Grand-Puy Ducasse

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Grand-Puy Ducasse

How Château Grand-Puy Ducasse wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of fondue bourguignonne and accompanying sauces, lamb tagine with preserved lemons and onion compote with... or mymy's golden apples (squash).

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Grand-Puy Ducasse

On the nose the red wine of Château Grand-Puy Ducasse. often reveals types of flavors of smoke, prune or hay and sometimes also flavors of dark fruit, flint or fig. In the mouth the red wine of Château Grand-Puy Ducasse. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Grand-Puy Ducasse

  • 1992With an average score of 4.60/5
  • 1981With an average score of 4.40/5
  • 1991With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 1986With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 1990With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2003With an average score of 4.18/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Château Grand-Puy Ducasse.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Petit Verdot
  • Malbec

Discovering the wine region of Pauillac

The wine region of Pauillac is located in the region of Médoc of Bordeaux of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Château Latour or the Château Lafite Rothschild produce mainly wines red, pink and other. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Pauillac are Cabernet-Sauvignon, Merlot and Cabernet franc, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Pauillac often reveals types of flavors of iron, milk chocolate or apricot and sometimes also flavors of coconut, toasted bread or tomatoes.

In the mouth of Pauillac is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins. We currently count 151 estates and châteaux in the of Pauillac, producing 248 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Pauillac go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison).

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Grand-Puy Ducasse

Planning a wine route in the of Pauillac? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Château Grand-Puy Ducasse.

Discover the grape variety: Merlot

Merlot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Bordeaux). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small to medium sized bunches, and medium sized grapes. Merlot noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Armagnac, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Beaujolais, Provence & Corsica, Savoie & Bugey.

News about Château Grand-Puy Ducasse and wines from the region

Château Latour 2014 released for first time

Château Latour 2014 was released this morning (15 March), making it the youngest Latour grand vin on the market and the third to be released since the first growth estate left the Bordeaux en primeur system in 2012. Farr Vintners was selling Latour 2014 at £4,950 per 12-bottle case, with six magnums offered at £4,980. Bordeaux Index was offering the wine in six-bottle cases at £2,475 in bond. Analyst group Wine Lister said the wine had been released at €430 per bottle ex-Bordeaux, up 18% on the ...

Hugh Johnson: ‘I’ve formed a bond with Grillo and flirted with Verdicchio’

I’d like to say we took advantage of the lockdown and its related commotion to do a stock-take, explore new avenues, turn over intriguing stones, widen and deepen our drinking, taking careful notes as we went. Sadly, no. I won’t say we got stuck in a rut, but we did tend to stick with comfort wines – and “comfort”, in our case, means familiar. Regular readers of this quarterly column can probably guess the labels on the resulting empties. We have a wider range of comfort foods, I’m afraid, than ...

Andrew Jefford: ‘Telling stories about terroir will lead us astray’

A domaine’s long history hoists its inanimate wines into life; biography brings meaning to the simple sensual pleasure of tasting a grower’s efforts. It’s important, though, to know what we are doing when we tell stories. And to know what to tell them about. Winemakers take the messy chaos of natural processes and add discipline, giving shape and direction to produce a stable and enticing wine. This was never nature’s intent. The storyteller takes a messy chaos of random events, either imagined ...

The word of the wine: Vinification of sweet wines

Moelleux and liquoreux wines are characterized by the presence of residual sugars (natural sugar of the grape), not transformed into alcohol under the effect of yeasts. The fermentation is stopped by cold and by the addition of sulphur dioxide (sulphur).