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Château de la Dauphine
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2024
Château de la Dauphine (Fronsac)
With a floral bouquet setting off the perfume, the wine is on the finesse side, focusing on its elegant character that allows its vivid display of black raspberries, plums, licorice, chocolate, and crushed stones to shine. The wine blends 75% Merlot with 25% Cabernet Franc. Production was down close to 70% from hail. Drink from 2027-2039. 91-93 Pts 592 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2025 |
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2023
Château de la Dauphine (Fronsac)
This is a hidden gem. If you want an outstanding wine that sells for song, with aromatics, intensity, finesse, and charm, along with a boatload of ripe, red fruits, creamy-textures, and a fruit-filled finish, this is for you. La Dauphine is now one of the top wines from Fronsac. Drink from 2027-2040. 93-95 Pts. 1,730 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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Crisp, fresh, bright, lemons and pomelos with a touch of orange rind and green apples shine in this forward, early-drinking white Bordeaux. This will be best in its fruit-filled youth. Drink from 2024-2027. 1,108 Views Tasted Feb 2, 2024 |
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2022
Château de la Dauphine (Fronsac)
Quite floral on the nose, the wine is also loaded with smoke, cherries, plums, licorice and cocoa. Creamy, soft, polished, and fresh, there is a nice salty essence in the finish providing complexity, and a touch of chocolate-mint adding vibrancy to the finish. La Dauphine is now one of the top wines from Fronsac. Drink from 2025-2038. 93-95 Pts. 2,795 Views Tasted May 8, 2023 |
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2022
Château de la Dauphine (Fronsac)
Initially, you notice the floral character before you work your wine over to the smoke, cherries, plums, licorice, and chocolate in the nose. The palate is soft, creamy, and packed with layers of sweet red fruits, chocolate, and silky textures. La Dauphine is now one of the top wines from Fronsac. Drink from 2025-2038. 728 Views Tasted Mar 1, 2025 |
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2021
Château de la Dauphine Blanc (Bordeaux)
Orange rind, white peach, pineapple and green apples create the nose. There is a touch of salinity that adds to the sweet yellow fruits, honey and green apples in the finish. The wine blends 65% Sauvignon Blanc with 35% Semillon. Drink from 2024-2028. 1,520 Views Tasted Apr 22, 2024 |
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2021
Château de la Dauphine (Fronsac)
Flowers and espresso show, along with ripe plums and crushed rocks in the nose. The palate is even better with its sweet, ripe, salty-edged plums, cherries and spice. Medium-bodied with loads of lift, the vibrant finish is clean and fresh, with ample red fruits and a light touch of cocoa on the backend. Drink from 2024-2036. 619 Views Tasted Mar 9, 2024With deep color, once past the freshly picked floral aromas, you find that the fruits are on the dark red side of the style range, with round textures and a soft, polished, sweet, lively, black raspberry and energetic plum finish. Drink from 2023-2034. 90-92 1,381 Views Tasted May 20, 2022 |
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2020
Château de la Dauphine (Loupiac)
Deeply colored, and already quite expressive, the wine opens with nuances of crushed rocks, flowers, Morello cherries, bitter chocolate and licorice in the perfume. Silky, flamboyant and yet, refined, the finish lingers, which is a good thing as it allows you to enjoy more of its sweet, red, salt-tinted fruits. Drink from 2023-2036. 666 Views Tasted Mar 21, 2023 |
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2020
Château de la Dauphine Blanc (Bordeaux)
White peach, flowers, spice, green apples and pears create the nose. Sweet, creamy and fresh, with a core of white peaches on the palate and in the finish. This will be best on the young side, over the next yew years. 489 Views Tasted Mar 21, 2023 |
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2020
Château de la Dauphine (Fronsac)
Dark in color, the wine kicks off with licorice, Morello cherries, bitter chocolate, blackberry and smoke. Round, rich, lush and opulent, the velvet textured, chocolate covered plums on the palate really stick with you. Drink it young or age it for a few years. 91-93 Pts 2,060 Views Tasted May 20, 2021 |
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2019
Château de la Dauphine (Fronsac)
Dark in color, the wine pops with little effort due to all of its flowers, perfectly ripe black-cherries, licorice, spice, dark chocolate and smoky aromatics. Opulently textured, with silky-tannins, vibrancy, length and purity, this beauty is going to provide fabulous drinking for at least 15 years. And it sells for a song. This is a wine you can purchase by the case! Drink it young, or age it for a few years. Drink from 2023-2035. 3,363 Views Tasted Mar 29, 2022Deep in color, with flowers and chocolate, along with round, silky textures and a blast of rich, ripe dark red fruits, licorice, earth and spice. The wine meshes fruits, supple textures, espresso, cocoa and a fruity, fresh, silky finish. Drink it young, or age it for a few years. 90-92 Pts 3,415 Views Tasted Jun 8, 2020 |
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2018
Château de la Dauphine (Fronsac)
Rich, ripe, silky and seductive, the fruits have a nice bite of freshness, giving lift and energy. The medium/full-bodied, fruit-filled wine finishes with a gorgeous blend of coffee bean, licorice, plums and dark cocoa. You can pop a cork on release or age it for a few years. 2,168 Views Tasted Mar 9, 2021Showing good color, the wine is rich, fat and juicy, espresso, dark chocolate covered cherries and licorice from start to finish. Lush, rich and concentrated, there is length, density and freshness here. Plus, you can pop a cork on release or age it for a few years. 91-93 Pts 2,215 Views Tasted Apr 19, 2019 |
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2017
Château de la Dauphine (Fronsac)
With deep color, this fruity wine is on the dark berry side with plenty of fresh, juicy blackberries and plums adding to the fun. Lushly textured, sweet and fleshy, the wine has a ripe, plump personality. 2,820 Views Tasted Apr 26, 2018 |
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2016
Château de la Dauphine (Fronsac)
Still dark in color, the wine is floral, fennel filled and fruity. Rich, silky, elegant and deep, there is fruit, freshness, length and character, and the best part is, the wine is easy to find and it is affordable too! 3,144 Views Tasted Sep 21, 2019With deep color, you catch the floral, blackberry, licorice and vanilla nose first. The lush textures, freshness and juicy fruits in the finish make this wine already delicious, and it should age for a few years too. 4,160 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2017 |
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2015
Château de la Dauphine (Fronsac)
Deep in color, the wine is lush, rich, fleshy, sweet and long. There is minerality, loads of ripe, juicy fruits, length and character. You can drink this for pleasure for at least 15 years or so. 3,441 Views Tasted May 21, 2018Deeply colored, with a lush, round, supple character, the wine is packed to the gills with licorice, sweet, juicy, dark red and black fruits, chocolate and espresso beans. Sweet, fresh, ripe, earthy, dark fruits with great textures and presence, plus it sells for a song and drinks well early! 90-92 Pts 3,647 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2016 |
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2014
Château de la Dauphine (Fronsac)
Stony plums, espresso, wood and cocoa in character, the wine is forward, round and made for early drinking. 88-89 Pts 3,357 Views Tasted May 1, 2015 |
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2013
Château de la Dauphine (Fronsac)
Fresh herbs, fennel and red berries, soft and round in texture, the wine exchanges depth for an ease of drinkability. 86-88 Pts 2,971 Views Tasted May 1, 2014 |
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2012
Château de la Dauphine (Fronsac)
Sensuous textures, forward, lush dark fruits, licorice, cocoa and earth for an affordable price. What’s not to like? 2,692 Views Tasted May 15, 2015Soft, silky, lush, and forward, this will make for delicious, early, uncomplicated, well-priced drinking. 89-91 Pts 3,066 Views Tasted Apr 26, 2013 |
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2011
Château de la Dauphine (Fronsac)
Licorice, chocolate and earthy scents with black raspberry, this wine is open and soft on the palate, finishing with jammy black cherry. This Fronsac estate is consulted by Denis Dubourdieu. 87-89 Pts 3,752 Views Tasted Apr 20, 2012 |
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2010
Château de la Dauphine (Fronsac)
Deep in color, with oak, licorice, floral, chocolate and dark berry scents pairs well with the wines round textures and sweet black cherry finish. 89-91 Pts 5,404 Views Tasted Mar 14, 2011 |
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2009
Château de la Dauphine (Fronsac)
Licorice, black cherry, red plums, espresso bean and earth make up the perfume. Medium bodied, with round textures and an accessible personality, this will drink best at a young age. 4,817 Views Tasted Jul 13, 2012 |
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2008
Château de la Dauphine (Fronsac)
Coffee, earth, cassis aromas open up this early drinking crowd pleaser that ends with flavors of kirsch and plums. 4,209 Views Tasted Mar 8, 2011 |
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2006
Château de la Dauphine (Fronsac)
Soft, lush and plush, this licorice, coffee, vanilla and dark cherry filled wine is a bit on the oaky side. Drink this young as it's not going to develop much more complexity. 2,389 Views Tasted Nov 29, 2013 |
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2005
Château de la Dauphine (Fronsac)
Licorice, chocolate, black raspberry and black cherry aromas lead the way to a a rich, ripe, concentrated wine filled with gobs of lush dark berries, black cherries and fennel. From one of the best producers in Fronsac, this bargain priced Bordeaux wine made from a blend of 80% Merlot & 20% Cabernet Franc delivers a lot of bang for the buck. Personally, I prefer wines like this on young side. I'd drink it before its 10th birthday. 4,622 Views Tasted Jan 20, 2011 |
