Description

A Doisy wine was first mentioned in the “Topography of all Known Vineyards” written by André Jullien (1832). Doisy growth was included amongst the twenty-first classified Bordeaux white wines of which there are five.  Daëne is in Charles Cock’s classification (1846), ranked amongst the 4 classified first growths of Barsac with Coutet, Climens and Myrat. In 1850 the same writer classified it amongst the 11 Bordeaux white first growths. The name Doisy Daëne stems from a combination of the Doisy growth using the proprietor’s name, Jean Jacques Emmanuel Daêne, a Bordeaux wine merchant.

Georges Dubourdieu bought Doisy-Daëne in 1924 and over a span of 80 years three generations of Dubourdieu winemakers, Georges, Pierre and then the legendary Denis, carried the torch.

Starting in 2000, Denis presided over the destiny of Doisy-Daëne. Simultaneously he was a professor at the Oenology faculty in Bordeaux as well as becoming an internationally famous Consulting oenologist. His sons Fabrice and Jean Jacques came on board in 2004.  After his untimely death in 2016, his sons, the fourth Dubourdieu generation on Doisy-Daëne, have continued the family project.