The Château Dillon of Haut-Médoc of Bordeaux

Château Dillon - Haut-Médoc
The winery offers 2 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
It is ranked in the top 160 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Haut-Médoc in the region of Bordeaux

The Château Dillon is one of the best wineries to follow in Haut-Médoc.. It offers 2 wines for sale in of Haut-Médoc to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Dillon wines

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

The top red wines of Château Dillon

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Dillon

How Château Dillon wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of savoyard matafans, douez battata with cardoons (moroccan lamb stew) or duck breast with honey-orange sauce.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Dillon

On the nose the red wine of Château Dillon. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, oaky or earthy and sometimes also flavors of leather, cassis or earth. In the mouth the red wine of Château Dillon. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Dillon

  • 1982With an average score of 4.40/5
  • 2015With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2003With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2002With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2016With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2006With an average score of 3.90/5

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

  • Cabernet Franc
  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Petit Verdot

Discovering the wine region of Haut-Médoc

The wine region of Haut-Médoc is located in the region of Médoc of Bordeaux of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Château Lestage Simon or the Château La Lagune produce mainly wines red, white and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Haut-Médoc are Cabernet-Sauvignon, Merlot and Cabernet franc, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Haut-Médoc often reveals types of flavors of leather, sour cherry or almonds and sometimes also flavors of chalk, hay or orange.

In the mouth of Haut-Médoc is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins. We currently count 512 estates and châteaux in the of Haut-Médoc, producing 836 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Haut-Médoc go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison).

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Discover the grape variety: Cabernet franc

Cabernet Franc is one of the oldest red grape varieties in Bordeaux. The Libourne region is its terroir where it develops best. The terroirs of Saint-Emilion and Fronsac allow it to mature and develop its best range of aromas. It is also the majority in many blends. The very famous Château Cheval Blanc, for example, uses 60% Cabernet Franc. The wines produced with Cabernet Franc are medium in colour with fine tannins and subtle aromas of small red fruits and spices. When blended with Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, it brings complexity and a bouquet of aromas to the wine. It produces fruity wines that can be drunk quite quickly, but whose great vintages can be kept for a long time. It is an earlier grape variety than Cabernet Sauvignon, which means that it is planted as far north as the Loire Valley. In Anjou, it is also used to make sweet rosé wines. Cabernet Franc is now used in some twenty countries in Europe and throughout the world.

News about Château Dillon and wines from the region

Rare Haut-Brion helps Prince Robert of Luxembourg cellar auction ‘smash’ estimate

All 818 lots were sold in the auction, which saw Prince Robert of Luxembourg, chairman and CEO of Château Haut-Brion owner Domaine Clarence Dillon, open up his personal cellar to raise funds for the PolG Foundation. Featuring 4,200 bottles and covering Bordeaux wine royalty spanning more than a century of vintages, Sotheby’s said the auction ‘smashed’ its pre-sale high estimate of around $4m.  Two 4.5-litre Jeroboams of Haut-Brion, one from the 1926 vintage and the other from 1 ...

Château Peyrabon in Bordeaux gets new owner

BCAP, a group controlled by the Castéja family, has agreed to acquire Château Peyrabon and Château La Fleur Peyrabon from Millésima, a subsidiary of the Bernard family, a joint-statement by both families said. Financial details weren’t disclosed. Peyrabon, in Haut-Médoc, was ranked as a ‘Supérieur’ estate in the Cru Bourgeois 2020 classification, which saw the ranking return to a three-tier system. ‘Supérieur’ is above standard Cru Bourgeois level but below ‘Exceptionnel’. Millésima and the Bern ...

Angélus, Léoville Barton join 2021 en primeur releases

Château Angélus 2021 was released this morning (23 May) at €265 per bottle ex-Bordeaux, according to Liv-ex, up by around 2% on the opening price of the 2020 vintage last year. Merchants were offering Angélus 2021 for £3,120 (12x75cl in bond). Decanter’s Georgie Hindle scored Angélus 2021 95 points, praising its ‘exceptional finesse’. She said the wine represents an excellent effort, following a Bordeaux 2021 growing season that presented many weather challenges. This vintage of Angélus contains ...

The word of the wine: Smooth

Said of a wine that has a mouthfeel reminiscent of the creamy texture of fats.