March 17, 2023 - Bought a couple of bottles 15 years ago and this the first I’ve tried. Very interesting. Wonderful burnt gold colour, reflected in the smell of sweet apricot. Already then a sense of the weight and length of the taste. Very clean rich dark apricot and honey. Not much acidic cut through but very very long, and somehow the purity of the fruit hit keeps it all together. Excellent
March 6, 2022 - Mature... seemed to lack a little of the Botrytis components to be more complexe but has nice acid backbone.
July 9, 2021 - 3 bottles purchased on release together; two of them light gold; this bottle notably deeper old/burnished gold.
Color/App: full/deep burnished gold; good viscosity, though not at the level of a Rieussec or Suduiraut. Curious nose: almond, vanilla, apricot, decisive and unpleasant note of burnt sugar/oxidation. Palate is distinctly better than the nose, though that is probably just due to the sugar . . . . Sweet and confected, showing again some almond kernel, apricot, peach and finishing with a slight bitterness. There's not a lot of acid here and comes off as pretty cloying as well as affected to my mind. I have to believe this bottle is off its game, even in this (not my favourite) vintage. Not rating this; I'll wait to open one of the other bottles.
May 20, 2021 - From 0,375l.
Nice with coconut-creme brulee, mango and mint.
September 21, 2019 - In a good place right now. No longer just sweet but notes of dried persimmon and developing a nice complexity.
August 14, 2018 - Liked this quite a bit more than the critics did!
It's voluptuous and complex, great purity and balance. Very well defines and full of detail.
Beautiful.
From .375
June 16, 2018 - Served next to 2015. Much darker in colour. Dried fruit, burnt sugar, orange peel, spices. Lots of weight, a bit out of balance, lacks lift, a bit bitter. Amazing concentration, but a little one-dimensional. 88-91
October 21, 2017 - for once not bought en primeur but from a merchant only a few years back so storage conditions unconstrained, somewhat disconcerting orange-brown colour, usually Doisy-Daëne maintains a pale straw colour to considerable age, maybe a vintage characteristic, nose of strong apricot and almond, still quite fresh, not oxidized (reassuring after the colour), all doubts disappear with the palate, which is just lovely, great intensity and quite sweet but still lifted and light, really persistent and lovely sweet but clean aftertaste, so despite the rather strange colour a very good example, first bottle of six, little to gain from further age and it would be sad to lose the still inherent freshness
October 15, 2017 - Each to their own but for me this is close to the perfect Sauternes: fresh, elegant notes of honey with citrus undertones, without caramel or any cloying stodginess.
September 22, 2017 - Académie des Cinquante Bordeaux visit; 9/20/2017-9/23/2017: Very deep orange gold colour; caramelly, lacks elegance and acidity, drying bitters, light flavours, short.