The Château Layauga Duboscq of Médoc of Bordeaux

Château Layauga Duboscq
The winery offers 2 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is ranked in the top 287 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Médoc in the region of Bordeaux

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

Top Château Layauga Duboscq wines

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

The top red wines of Château Layauga Duboscq

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Layauga Duboscq

How Château Layauga Duboscq wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of tibs (ethiopia), lamb curry or wild boar stew marinated in red wine.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Layauga Duboscq

On the nose the red wine of Château Layauga Duboscq. often reveals types of flavors of oaky, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of oak, black fruit or tobacco. In the mouth the red wine of Château Layauga Duboscq. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Layauga Duboscq

  • 2011With an average score of 3.96/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.89/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.86/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.83/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.83/5

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

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

Discovering the wine region of Médoc

Bordeaux's Médoc is an area of coastal lagoons, sand dunes and pine forests located on the 45th parallel. It is also a global wine powerhouse, and home to four of the world's most prestigious wine villages: Pauillac, Margaux, Saint-Estèphe and Saint-Julien. The estates located in these villages produce some of the most expensive bottles in the world. The region has also provided all but one of the châteaux included in the official 1855 Bordeaux wine classification (Haut-Brion).

The Médoc vineyards cover about 16,000 hectares, including the various small appellations. Approximately 5500 hectares of vines are classified for the production of AOC/AOP Médoc wines. Wedged between the Atlantic coast and the wide Gironde estuary, the Médoc is in fact a peninsula. It stretches 80 kilometres (50 miles) to the northwest, from the city of Bordeaux to the Pointe de Grave.

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Discover the grape variety: Petit Verdot

Petit Verdot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (southwest). 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. Petit Verdot noir can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Rhone valley, Provence & Corsica, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais, Armagnac.

News about Château Layauga Duboscq and wines from the region

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 ...

Anthony Barton: tributes paid to Bordeaux wine great

The Barton family announced yesterday (19 January), ‘We have the immense sadness to inform you that our beloved Anthony Barton passed away at the age of 91 years old.’ Known as the ‘gentleman’ of Bordeaux wine and admired for his sense of humour and charisma, Anthony Barton was also widely respected for modernising family estates Léoville Barton and Langoa Barton – the respective 1855 second and third growth châteaux in the St-Julien appellation. Barton was credited, too, with maintaining ...

Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022

The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...

The word of the wine: Rancio

Odour and taste characteristic of certain wines that have undergone oxidative maturation, i.e. in contact with oxygen (vin jaune du Jura, dry rancio du Roussillon, maury, banyuls, rivesaltes, etc.).