Denis Dubourdieu

Pierre and Denis are among the finest Bordeaux oenologists, which explains the outstanding quality of their wines, which include:

• Chateau Cantegril
• Chateau Reynon
• Clos Floridene
• Chateau Doisy-Daene.

Within wine-making circles, Pierre and his son Denis have acquired an international reputation for ground-breaking developments in the following areas:

• cool-fermentation
• oak integration (better during fermentation than later at the ageing stage)
• effect of lees during maturation
• use of selected yeast strains
• research on botrytis
• pre-fermentation maceration
• isolation of individual aroma molecules in grapes and how to match these to specific terroirs
• improvement of the modern Vaslin press