Chateau Ausone
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Chateau Ausone,
For laying down,
There is a wonderful quality to this grand vin in 2015. Its hilltop location looking out over the appellation always makes it a glorious property to visit and we loved the wine this year. Sweet, succulent and beautifully perfumed with floral aromas and a touch of vanilla spice, there is real focus here.
This great estate has used its renowned terroir to create something which is full of multi-layered fruit complexity. Really focused, rewarding and utterly charming, the mouth-filling creamy palate offers a richness of flavour which lingers long on the finish. This epic wine is one of the very best produced by the Bordelais in 2015.
Blend: 50% Merlot, 50% Cabernet Franc
This great estate has used its renowned terroir to create something which is full of multi-layered fruit complexity. Really focused, rewarding and utterly charming, the mouth-filling creamy palate offers a richness of flavour which lingers long on the finish. This epic wine is one of the very best produced by the Bordelais in 2015.
Blend: 50% Merlot, 50% Cabernet Franc
Chateau Ausone,
For laying down,
Ch. Ausone is the cherry on the cake of the St Emillion in every sense of the word. Its tiny production (only 1500 cases a year) and wonderful quality makes it one of the most sought-after wines in the world, while its hilltop location looks out over the appelation like a lord surveying all he purveys. Made from 55% Cabernet Franc and 45% Merlot this has a real 'wow' factor again in 2006. It has an amazing nose of blackberry, smoke, pepper and roses followed by a complex, lush, mouthfilling creamy palate with vigorous tannins and layer upon layer of flavour and richness. This epic wine is one of the very best in Bordeaux.
Chateau Ausone,
For laying down,
With 55% Cabernet Franc and 45% Merlot, this is a rigorous wine, precise, compelling and striking. As with Chapelle d’Ausone, the quality and ripeness of the Cabernet Franc was complete, but the late summer rains compromised the concentration expected of a great year. It is the politesse, however, which marks this wine out. A remarkable seam of freshness invigorates the wine, more so than in 2011 and one is left with a sensation of an almost Thatcher-esque dressing-down; perhaps uncomfortable in parts, but also poised, composed and certainly thorough and, depending on your expectations, almost certainly good for you in the long run. There is no immediate gratification here, but a class act for the medium to long term.
Mark Pardoe MW, Wine Buying Director
Mark Pardoe MW, Wine Buying Director
Chateau Ausone,
For laying down,
This comes from vines planted on an asteria limestone plateau on calcareous clay. The wine has an attractive nose of chocolate, dark fruit and cinnamon. The palate is lively with huge intensity and a suave texture which gives way to a long, linear finish.
Blend: Cabernet Franc 56%, Merlot 22%, Cabernet Sauvignon 22%
Blend: Cabernet Franc 56%, Merlot 22%, Cabernet Sauvignon 22%
Chateau Ausone,
For laying down,
Very sweet cassis on the nose with a touch of violet, pure, and mineral. This wine is almost floating on the palate and very elegant. only a great terroir could have produced such an amazing wine in this vintage, it is focused, light but yet intense and seamless, very comparable to a to Grand cru burgundy where power does not comes from extraction but the terroir. It is free run juice on steroids...brilliant.
Max Lalondrelle - Fine Wine Buying Director
Max Lalondrelle - Fine Wine Buying Director
Chateau Ausone,
Ready, but will keep,
Proprietor Alain Vauthier has made another virtually perfect wine in 2007. The divinely scented nose is wonderfully complex and expressive, with creamy wild blackberries to the fore. Immensely elegant and vibrant, the dark fruit rolls across the tongue in waves with lovely focused minerality and a straitjacket of acidity from which it will gently ease free as it matures. Made from 55% Cabernet Franc and 45% Merlot, from 50 year old vines, this wine is all about intensity and balance. With only 1500 cases made, the possession of this elixir will be a rare privilege indeed.
Chateau Ausone,
For laying down,
There is real energy on the nose of the Grand Vin. Sweet, succulent and beautifully-perfumed with floral aromas and a touch of vanilla-spice. There is focus here, but a rewarding elegance too, even at this young age. Like La Conseillante and Ch. Figeac, this great estate has used its famous terroir to create a special wine in 2014. Light, silky, yet generous and lifting on the finish, it is a splendid result this year. Minerality follows on the lingering finish, with carefully- and well-managed tannins rounding things off. This is really good St Emilion.
Chateau Ausone,
Drink now,
"One of the best second wines I have ever tasted, the 2003 Chapelle dAusone is rivaled by the 2003 Carruades de Lafite and 2003 Forts de Latour. Dense ruby/purple to the rim with an extraordinary nose of flowers, figs, black raspberries, blueberries, and sweet cherries along with striking minerality and precision, this exquisite second wine represents the essence of Ausone. It should drink well for 25+ years. Prospective purchasers should be aware that Ausone requires 10-20 years of cellaring before it approaches maturity."
Robert Parker - Wine Advocate - 30-April-2006
Robert Parker - Wine Advocate - 30-April-2006
Chateau Ausone,
For laying down,
The vineyards of Ch. Ausone are located on a high southeast slope overlooking the medieval ramparts of St Emilion. Bearing a dark ruby hue, the nose is exquisite with notes of blueberry, damson, blackcurrant and cherry. On the palate, there is a pleasing vitality, with velvet-like tannins and a concentrated, intense finish.
Blend: Cabernet Franc 50%, Merlot 50%
Blend: Cabernet Franc 50%, Merlot 50%
Chateau Ausone,
For laying down,
Ch. Ausone was our first stop in St Émilion when tasting the 2008s and, it has to be said, it was quite an experience. We had heard that the quality was good on the Right Bank but we really were spoilt by our first taste of it. The entire Ausone stable showed very well but the Grand Vin was incredible; it was full of glorious dark fruit, so concentrated that one had the impression it was all concertina-ed together, just waiting to spring out at a future date. A lovely, silky smoothness denoted its First Growth quality, and there was depth and complexity with warm, sweet vanilla spice and a wonderful balsamic tang on the finish. ‘Wow’ featured in most of our notes; this was simply gorgeous.
Chateau Ausone,
For laying down,
The vineyard of Ausone sits high above St Emilion on a limestone plateau on a calcareous clay slope. The 2017 is a blend of 55 percent Cabernet Franc and 45 percent Merlot. It falls into the glass with a dark, crimson character and displays compact, dark fruit, smoke, pepper and blackberry. Big, rich and bold, the texture is suave and envelops the mouth, leaving the sensation of a smooth and layered finish. Really very good.
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Chateau Ausone is named after the Roman poet Ausonius who owned over 100 acres of vineyard around Saint Emilion. It is perched on the hillside in the southern outskirts of the village of Saint Emilion.
Ausone has only 7.3 hectares of vines and its vineyards (Merlot 50%, Cabernet Franc 50%) flourish on a steep, south-east facing slope, protecting them from cold north winds and westerly rain. Those vines at the top of the slope thrive on limestone (the `St.Emilion plateau') whilst those further down benefit from a clay/loam topsoil (the 'Côtes').
Ausone struggled during the 1950s and 1960s, but with the hiring of new régisseur Pascal Delbeck in 1976, the estate returned to producing wines worthy of its outstanding historic reputation. Recently Ausone has been at the very peak of its form and with the ubiquitous Michel Rolland now acting as consultant, it is now producing ultra-rich, lush, exotically fruity wines that require a minimum 10 years of bottle ageing.