Chateau Ausone
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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
Case price (Bottle 3 x 75cl)
Bottle 3 x 75cl 15cs
£852.00
Case price (Bottle 3 x 75cl)
Bottle 3 x 75cl 8cs
£852.00
Bottle 3 x 75cl 3cs
£988.00
Bottle 3 x 75cl 1cs
£1,197.00
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Chateau Ausone,
For laying down,
Deep, sensuous blackberry aromas announce the 2009 Ch. Ausone, followed by a seductive, creamy cassis palate dripping with a high level of superbly-crafted tannins that just melt on the tongue. A much darker wine than its junior siblings, this has all the properties of a true Grand Vin that will last for many, many years – and yet the contradiction is that it is still delicious right now! Concentrated, ripe but not confected in the least, this is silky smooth with a mineral presence on the finish worthy of its status. Spellbinding.
Case price (Bottle 6 x 75cl)
Bottle 6 x 75cl 2cs
£4,589.94
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Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
£4,450.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
£5,000.00
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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.
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Bottle 12 x 75cl 1cs
£1,780.00
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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.
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
£1,935.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 3cs
£1,998.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
£2,188.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 2cs
£2,288.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 2cs
£2,900.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
£3,600.00
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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.
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Bottle 12 x 75cl 1cs
£4,175.00
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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.
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Chateau Ausone,
For laying down,
Exhibiting outstanding concentration and a depth of floral blackberry and blueberry aromas, this wine has a real concentration about it. A very good second wine, this is a product of the château’s young vines.
Appealing flavours of cherry and smoky red fruit make this really rewarding. It is the volume which stands out here, especially after tasting the whole flight from the Ch. Ausone stable. An excellent effort.
Blend: 45% Merlot, 45% Cabernet Franc, 10% Cabernet Sauvignon
Appealing flavours of cherry and smoky red fruit make this really rewarding. It is the volume which stands out here, especially after tasting the whole flight from the Ch. Ausone stable. An excellent effort.
Blend: 45% Merlot, 45% Cabernet Franc, 10% Cabernet Sauvignon
En Primeur
Bottle 6 x 75cl 18cs
£684.00
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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
Bottle 1 x 75cl 1cs
£395.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
£2,250.00
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Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
£2,300.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 2cs
£2,398.00
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Chateau Ausone,
For laying down,
In contrast to the rest of the Vauthier estate, the Cabernet Franc in the Ch. Ausone vineyard was, paradoxically, more successful than the Merlot. Ch. Ausone’s extraordinary terroir, with its sponge-like clays to absorb water during the spring and autumn rains, yet delivering water parsimoniously during the hot summer, kept the Cabernet Franc in perfect health. So much good Cabernet Franc allows it to comprise 60% of Chapelle d’Ausone’s blend, with 25% Merlot and even 15% Cabernet Sauvignon. The latter is a tiny proportion of the surface, just on the steepest south-facing slopes. Principally from the château’s young vines, there is a strictness to the wine, a puritan worthiness, yet it remains fresh, direct and assertive.
Mark Pardoe MW, Wine Buying Director
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Chateau Ausone,
Ready, but will keep,
Those people in the know have already started to view Chapelle d'Ausone as more than just 'Baby Ausone'. It is a great wine in its own right - vying for the tagline of Bordeaux's finest second wine. However, it is so much more than a second wine - with huge concentration (even in 2007) and incredible depth of flavour, this is not only testament to the terroir, but further re-enforces the assertion that winemaker Alain Vauthier is making some of the finest wines in Bordeaux.
Magnum 6 x 150cl 1cs
£990.00
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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.