The Château Dorrien of Barossa Valley of Australie du Sud

Château Dorrien
The winery offers 18 different wines
3.9
Note - 1Note - 1Note - 1Note - 1Note - 0
Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
It is ranked in the top 785 of the estates of Australie du Sud.
It is located in Barossa Valley in the region of Australie du Sud

The Château Dorrien is one of the best wineries to follow in Barossa Valley.. It offers 18 wines for sale in of Barossa Valley to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Dorrien wines

Looking for the best Château Dorrien wines in Barossa Valley among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château Dorrien 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 Dorrien wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Château Dorrien

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Dorrien

How Château Dorrien wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or poultry such as recipes of fillet of beef with morels, lamb epigram in spicy sauce or quiche with bacon and gruyère cheese.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Dorrien

On the nose the red wine of Château Dorrien. often reveals types of flavors of earth, black fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Château Dorrien. is a powerful with a lot of tannins present in the mouth.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Dorrien

  • 2016With an average score of 3.50/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Château Dorrien.

  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot

Discovering the wine region of Barossa Valley

The wine region of Barossa Valley is located in the region of Barossa of Australie du Sud of Australia. We currently count 613 estates and châteaux in the of Barossa Valley, producing 2290 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Barossa Valley go well with generally quite well with dishes .

The top white wines of Château Dorrien

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Château Dorrien

How Château Dorrien wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, shellfish or poultry such as recipes of homemade burger, catalan zarzuela or stuffed eggplant (with vegetables or mixed).

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Château Dorrien.

  • Riesling

Discover the grape variety: Riesling

White Riesling is a grape variety that originated in France (Alsace). It produces a variety of grape specially used for the elaboration of wine. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches, and small grapes. White Riesling can be found in many vineyards: Alsace, Loire Valley, Languedoc & Roussillon, Lorraine, Provence & Corsica, Rhone Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais, South West.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Dorrien

Planning a wine route in the of Barossa Valley? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Château Dorrien.

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 Dorrien and wines from the region

Robert Mondavi joins the NFT craze

Robert Mondavi Winery is the latest winery to join the NFT craze and its upcoming launch could be pivotal in determining if and how the rest of the wine industry will adopt cryptocurrency in the future. Consisting of a unique generative art piece that’s also attached to future experiences at the winery, Mondavi’s NFTs will accompany 1,966 1.5-litre porcelain wine bottles created in partnership with Bernardaud, the renowned French porcelain house that dates back to 1863. The porcelain bottles are ...

Andrew Jefford: ‘Rosé, for the time being, is a pretty babble’

Many wine styles can seem perplexing at first: imagine the first bottle of Barolo if you only know Barossa Shiraz, or the first bottle of Jura Savagnin if you were brought up on California Chardonnay. With time, thought and repeated tasting, though, comes understanding. You learn each wine’s syntax and lexicon, its hints and inferences. You grasp the ways in which each style communicates. Its beauty dawns, then grows. Rosé wine sales grew 23% worldwide between 2002 and 2019. Its fuel has come fr ...

Penfolds doubles production capacity in France following Château Lanessan acquisition

The deal includes 390ha of land in the Haut-Médoc appellation, of which 80ha is currently planted with Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Petit Verdot, along with the winery. It will allow TWE’s flagship brand, Penfolds, to increase its focus on creating blends featuring grapes from Bordeaux and Barossa. Earlier this year, chief winemaker Peter Gago unveiled Penfolds II, a Cabernet-Shiraz-Merlot blend created in partnership with Dourthe Bordeaux. The wine featured 71% grapes grown in Bordeaux and 29 ...

The word of the wine: Sweet (flavor)

The flavour provided by the residual sugars naturally present in the wine as well as by certain alcohols. This sensation can range from a simple impression of smoothness to a clear sweetness. We speak of roundness, fatness and mellowness.

Discover other regions and appellation of Barossa