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2014 Château Doisy Daene, 375ml

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December 28, 2025 - $28

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RATINGS

96Wine Enthusiast

Intense with botrytis and concentrated dried apricot and fig flavors, this is a finely balanced wine.

95-97The Wine Advocate

...fragrant and ethereal with wild honey, yellow flower and orange blossom scents developing with aeration...palate is very well balanced with superb tension and fruit intensity on the entry. It is more linear than recent vintages, minerally with a lovely twist of sour lemon imparting tension and vivacity on the crystalline finish.

93+ Vinous / IWC

...attractive nose with petrol-tinged honeyed fruit, orange blossom and wax resin. Like its peers, there is something a little Germanic here. The palate is very well balanced with a pure entry. The acidity slices through the botrytised fruit, with touches of peach and ginger towards the finish. Fine.

93James Suckling

This is a bit shy on the nose, but it’s a powerful and muscular wine with moderate sweetness for the appellation.

91.9CellarTracker

17.5Jancis Robinson

Deep aroma of almond paste and apricots, spicy too. Viscous, intense, rich and very sweet but still balanced. Masses of almond-paste flavour and great harmony between richness and freshness.

PRODUCER

Château Doisy Daene

Château Doisy Daene is a Second Growth wine of the Sauternes appellation in Bordeaux. The 37-acre estate is planted to 80% Semillon and 20% Sauvignon. About 40,000 bottles of dessert wine are produced annually. The estate is owned by the Dubourdieu family and Robert M. Parker Jr. has called Doisy Daene “one of the most ambitiously and innovatively run estates in Bordeaux….(its wine) is certainly one of the leaders among the deuxiemes crus classes.”

REGION

France, Bordeaux, Sauternes, Barsac

Sauternes makes the world’s most famous dessert wines. Though the appellation lies within the Graves region of Bordeaux’s left bank, the appellation makes only sweet wines from white grapes, primarily Semillon sometimes blended with small amounts of Muscadelle. The five communes within Sauternes are Barsac, Bommes, Fargues, Preignac and Sauternes. Barsac also has its own appellation and, typically, Barsac wines are slightly drier and lighter than other Sauternes. Sauternes are made when weather conditions result in a mold called Botrytis cinerea developing on the grapes, which causes them to become especially sweet. Sauternes are not produced every vintage, so successful vintages become especially collectible. Sauternes estates were classified in 1855, and Château d’Yquem, the appellation’s most prestigious estate, was ranked in a class by itself as a Premier Grand Cru. Château d’Yquem wines are among the most prized wines in the world.

VINTAGE

2014 Château Doisy Daene