News from the Château

After heavy rains and even hail for some part of Bordeaux (but not in Fronsac) during spring, the sun is back, finally ! Flowering, always tricky and delicate, went pretty well, grapes are now forming on the […]

What a great day with this new score for Château de La Dauphine 2014 !

It’s been now 12 months that 2016 vintage is ageing in our cellar. Ageing in barrels will help the wine to evolve by bringing more stucture with the wood tannins. Many aromas will also appear in the wine […]

  All the team wishes you the very best for 2018 !  

Created in Bordeaux in 2002, the Best Of Wine Tourism awards recognise outstanding sites in wine tourism in seven different categories every year. For the 2018 edition, there were more than 90 entries. The award ceremony was […]

While the last plot is harvested, the winemaking has already started. In the winery, we opted for indigenous yeasts for the entire harvest; in parallel we are experimenting with eight barrels, to compare the indigenous yeasts with […]

The 2017 harvests began early at Château de la Dauphine on 14 September, due to the exceptionally hot month of June. Having escaped serious damage in the frost at the end of April, the vines flourished, producing […]

Grappes are slowly ripening … Harvest is soon to be !  

For several years now, Château de La Dauphine has demonstrated its respect for both nature and humankind with a variety of ethical and environmental initiatives. These fall into three broad categories: Environmentally-friendly practices: Encouragement of biodiversity Biological […]

After blending and fining, Château de La Dauphine 2015 is finally ready to be bottled this week. This is one of the greatest vintage of Bordeaux, by the quality and quantity and for us it is also […]

Now that the fruits are here, the grapes are slowly ripening. From green, they turn black and get full of sugar with less acidity. Tanins and aromas are also developing. When everything will be ready, we will […]

Despite the harsh frost that touched Bordeaux (and France) last month, we are lucky at La Dauphine with “only” 20% of loss. We are protected from natural disasters, as frost or hail, thanks to the river Dordogne […]