2024 Château Ducasse Bordeaux Blanc, Bordeaux, FranceABOUT THIS WINE This Bordeaux blanc is made from old Smillon and Sauvignon Blanc vines planted in complex soils of clay and limestone on fissured rock. 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 timeconstructed along a sturdy spine of chalk and acidity, it bears the

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The winemaking tradition has been passed down from father to son since 1632