The Château Lamothe-Despujols of Sauternes of Bordeaux

Château Lamothe-Despujols
The winery offers 2 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.1.
It is ranked in the top 33 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Sauternes in the region of Bordeaux

The Château Lamothe-Despujols is one of the world's great estates. It offers 2 wines for sale in of Sauternes to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Lamothe-Despujols wines

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

The top sweet wines of Château Lamothe-Despujols

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Château Lamothe-Despujols

How Château Lamothe-Despujols 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 roquefort cake.

Organoleptic analysis of sweet wines of Château Lamothe-Despujols

On the nose the sweet wine of Château Lamothe-Despujols. often reveals types of flavors of pineapple, citrus or peach and sometimes also flavors of apricot, orange or honey. In the mouth the sweet wine of Château Lamothe-Despujols. is a powerful with a good balance between acidity and sweetness.

The best vintages in the sweet wines of Château Lamothe-Despujols

  • 1986With an average score of 4.60/5
  • 1999With an average score of 4.50/5
  • 2001With an average score of 4.50/5
  • 1995With an average score of 4.50/5
  • 2003With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 1998With an average score of 4.30/5

The grape varieties most used in the sweet wines of Château Lamothe-Despujols.

  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Sémillon
  • Muscadelle

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 Lamothe-Despujols

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 Lamothe-Despujols.

Discover the grape variety: Sémillon

Sémillon blanc 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. Note that this grape variety can also be used for the elaboration of eaux de vie. This variety of vine is characterized by large bunches of grapes, and grapes of large size. Sémillon Blanc can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Armagnac, Provence & Corsica, Loire Valley, Rhone Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.

News about Château Lamothe-Despujols and wines from the region

At the heart of the terroirs of Mâcon-Montbellet

Sequence from the video « At the heart of the Mâcon terroir » which offer a stroll at the heart of the Mâcon terroir. It offers a focus on Mâcon-Montbellet, one of the 27 geographical denominations of the Mâcon appellation. Travel through the terroirs of the Mâcon appellation by watching the full video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF20y1aBZh8 Both are availablein French and English. Our social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BourgogneWines​​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BourgogneW ...

The Mâcon plus appellation investigated through its geology and geography

The Bourgogne Wine Board (BIVB) invites you to enjoy this video in which Jean-Pierre Renard, Expert Instructor at the Ecole des Vins de Bourgogne, explains the topographical and geological characteristics of the appellation Mâcon plus geographical denomination . The tectonics and the very different nature of the rocks that make up the subsoil of this region explain the great variety of soils found in this part fo Bourgogne. It also explains why each wine offers a different personnality. This vid ...

The Saint-Véran appellation seen by Kevin Tessieux

Kévin Tessieux, President of the appellation’s winegrower union, shares his perspective on the Saint-Véran appellation and tell us about the origin of its name. This video is taken from the “Rendez-vous avec les vins de Bourgogne” program broadcasted in June 2021. Retrouvez-nous sur les réseaux sociaux : Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/VinsdeBourgogneofficiel Twitter : https://twitter.com/VinsdeBourgogne​​​ Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/vinsdebourgogne/ LinkedIn: https://www.li ...

The word of the wine: R-M (champagne)

Harvesting and handling. It is the artisan winemaker. He elaborates his own champagne, often a monocru representative of the village or the surrounding villages.