2024 Château Ducasse Bordeaux Blanc

This Bordeaux Blanc is quite different from others from their appellations: Hervé blends a high proportion of Sémillon (70%)  with Sauvignon Blanc (30%), from vines ranging in age from 45-48 years, creating a rich, full, aromatic mid-palate to complement the clean finish.  100% stainless steel fermentation and aging.

Tasting Notes

One of our favorite spring/summer whites for over a decade now! Lively, clean, fun and refreshing, this blend has bright flavors of citrus and white peach, with good acidity and hints of minerals on the long finish. The wine is bone dry, even if your first whiff of sunny, slightly tropical fruit leads you to expect otherwise. On the palate, it is luscious and mouth coating with generous passion fruit and lychee, and yet it is racy at the same time constructed along a sturdy spine of chalk and acidity, it bears the classic Sauvignon Blanc notes of lime and grass. Light to medium bodied and very food friendly. This is the perfect go-to white to pair well with anything from fish to poultry, picnic fare to Indian curries. 

About Château Ducasse

Hervé Dubourdieu owns Château Graville-Lacoste and Château Ducasse, where he grows grapes for his Graves Blanc and Bordeaux Blanc, respectively.  The Graville-Lacoste property produces a Graves Blanc, known primarily for its stony soil composition and fresh minerality. 

Hervé Dubourdieu’s easy charm and modest disposition are complemented by his focus and ferocious perfectionism. He prefers to keep to himself, spending most of his time with his family in his modest, tasteful home, surrounded by his vineyards in the Sauternes and Graves appellations.

Thirty-two of the Château’s eighty hectares are consecrated to terraced vineyard land with south-southeast sun exposure, on clay and limestone soils. This is unique terroir. Garrigue, the aromatic scrub brush that dominates the landscapes of the South, asserts its presence among these vines. Syrah, Grenache, and Mourvèdre, the noble varietals that Jack Boutin planted here years ago, make up the reds.