The Château Doisy-Vedrines of Sauternes of Bordeaux

Château Doisy-Vedrines - Château Petit Vedrines Sauternes
The winery offers 3 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.1.
This estate is part of the Denis Dubourdieu.
It is ranked in the top 32 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Sauternes in the region of Bordeaux

The Château Doisy-Vedrines is one of the world's great estates. It offers 3 wines for sale in of Sauternes to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Doisy-Vedrines wines

Looking for the best Château Doisy-Vedrines wines in Sauternes among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château Doisy-Vedrines 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 Doisy-Vedrines wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top sweet wines of Château Doisy-Vedrines

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Château Doisy-Vedrines

How Château Doisy-Vedrines wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of fruity desserts or blue cheese such as recipes of the coughing cat's apple crumble or walnut and roquefort tart.

Organoleptic analysis of sweet wines of Château Doisy-Vedrines

On the nose the sweet wine of Château Doisy-Vedrines. often reveals types of flavors of pineapple, toffee or lemon zest and sometimes also flavors of hazelnut, jasmine or hay. In the mouth the sweet wine of Château Doisy-Vedrines. is a powerful with a good balance between acidity and sweetness.

The best vintages in the sweet wines of Château Doisy-Vedrines

  • 1983With an average score of 4.50/5
  • 1975With an average score of 4.40/5
  • 1982With an average score of 4.40/5
  • 1990With an average score of 4.40/5
  • 1986With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2001With an average score of 4.21/5

The grape varieties most used in the sweet wines of Château Doisy-Vedrines.

  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Sémillon

Discovering the wine region of Sauternes

Sauternes, 65 km South of Bordeaux, is a Village renowned for its high quality Sweet wines. Although some wineries produce Dry wines, they sell them under other appellations than Sauternes, which is specific to sweet wines. The village is surrounded on all sides by vineyards, the best of which produce some of the most prestigious, long-lasting and expensive dessert wines in the world. A half bottle of premium, aged Sauternes from a good Vintage can sell for over $1,000.

Classic Sauternes has a DeepGoldenColor (darker than most other dessert wines), which turns a deep amber color with bottle age. Its aromas include flower and stone fruit, with a hint of honeysuckle - the hallmark of botrytized wines. The best wines balance sweetness with acidity, concentration with freshness and power with elegance. Sauternes wines are primarily made from the Sémillon grape, which accounts for about eight out of every ten vines in the local vineyard.

Sauvignon Blanc accounts for most of the remaining vineyard and is the dominant grape in a small handful of Sauternes wines. Semillon forms a broad, well-structured base with aromas of beeswax and apricot, while Sauvignon Blanc contributes its characteristic herbal aromas and enough acidity to keep the resulting wine fresh rather than mouthwatering. These two varieties (sometimes supplemented by a small amount of Muscadelle and Sauvignon Gris) have become the preferred varieties here, not only because they are also used to make dry white Bordeaux wines, but also because of their susceptibility to a particular type of fungus, Botrytis cinerea (often just botrytis). Apart from yeast, without which the grape juice cannot ferment into wine, one would not expect a fungus to play a key role in winemaking.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Doisy-Vedrines

Planning a wine route in the of Sauternes? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Château Doisy-Vedrines.

Discover the grape variety: Sauvignon

Sauvignon Gris is a grape variety that originated in France (South-West). 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 bunches and small grapes. Sauvignon Gris can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Burgundy, Jura, Beaujolais, Armagnac, Provence & Corsica, Rhone Valley, Savoie & Bugey.

News about Château Doisy-Vedrines and wines from the region

Bordeaux 2021 harvest was 20% below 10-year average following spring frosts

The Conseil Interprofessionnel du Vin de Bordeaux (CIVB) revealed that the Bordeaux 2021 vintage was 20% below the region’s 10-year average. Bud burst came earlier than usual amid very sunny weather in March, and many young buds were then destroyed by severe frosts, which hammered the region in early April. It means that producers will have just 503 million bottles from the 2021 vintage, which is significantly below average. The region’s sweet whites, including Sauternes, suffered the sharpest y ...

Stephen Brook: ‘It is astonishing how rapidly changes can take place in the Bordeaux region’

My book The Complete Bordeaux, which has been revised every five years, is soon to be published in its fourth edition. This may seem like excessive haste, given the scope of the book, but it is astonishing how rapidly changes can take place in the region. Burgundy, in contrast, is relatively stable, since most properties are family-owned and tend to stay that way. But not so in Bordeaux, where there are ample opportunities for newcomers to acquire established properties, as they have been doing ...

New Château Latour 2010 stocks released onto market

New stocks of Château Latour 2010 were released from the Pauillac-based First Growth’s cellars on 13 September. Latour 2010 is regarded as one of the best Bordeaux wines of the 21st century so far, and has received two 100-point Decanter scores in the past three years. It’s also more expensive than many other Latour vintages, but analyst group Wine Lister said it expected buyers to show interest. ‘There is no doubt that this release will see demand, especially for merchants rel ...

The word of the wine: Rough

A very astringent and somewhat coarse tannic wine.