Winery DufourSauternes
Sweet wine
This wine generally goes well with fruity desserts and blue cheese.
Food and wine pairings with Sauternes
Pairings that work perfectly with Sauternes
Original food and wine pairings with Sauternes
The Sauternes of Winery Dufour matches generally quite well with dishes of fruity desserts or blue cheese such as recipes of rice with milk or escalopines of turkey in brouillade.
Details and technical informations about Winery Dufour's Sauternes.
Discover the grape variety: Autumn royal
Table grape with long bunches and elongated, seedless black-violet berries with thin skin and crunchy flesh, neutral sweet flavour. Late ripening, autumn harvest. Very rarely vinified. Grown in California, Australia, South Africa and Chile for export markets, prized for its attractive appearance and extended cold-storage life. An American seedless table grape variety developed in California in 1996.
Informations about the Winery Dufour
The Winery Dufour is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 6 wines for sale in the of Sauternes to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Sauternes
Iconic Bordeaux AOC for noble sweet wines, left bank of the Garonne. Golden whites with signature notes of honey, candied apricot, exotic fruit, orange peel, saffron and a finish tightened by chiselled acidity, opulent yet nervy palate — a great age-worthy wine of emotion. Botrytised Semillon dominates (Ciron 'noble rot') concentrating sugars, Sauvignon Blanc adds vivacity, Muscadelle perfume. ~1,416 ha across 5 villages.
The wine region of Bordeaux
World-renowned age-worthy reds, led by round Merlot (plum, black fruit) or firm Cabernet Sauvignon (blackcurrant, cedar, graphite), blended with Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot for tannic structure. Structured Médoc and Graves, velvety Saint-Émilion and Pomerol. Also crisp dry whites (Sauvignon/Sémillon) and opulent sweet Sauternes with honey and candied fruit. A 110,000 ha Gironde vineyard, 65 appellations, cradle of the 1855 classified growths.
The word of the wine: Imperial
Bottle with a capacity of 6 liters (synonym of mathusalem).
