Chateau Ausone

Chateau Ausone St Emilion 1er GCC A 2010

Bottle Size

75CL

Rating

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James Halliday

Bob Campbell MW

James Suckling

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94-97

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Chateau Ausone St Emilion 1er GCC A 2010

$15,260

About The Wine

The 2010 Ausone struck me as another brilliant, potentially perfect wine, which should come as no shock to people who have been following Vauthier’s work over the last decade or more. Backward and intense, this wine offers up notes of crushed chalk/rock mineralilty interwoven with blueberry, black raspberry and cassis as well as some graphite and vanillin. It is incredibly rich but at the same time precise, fresh and vivacious. This is a super wine, but it will require enormous patience from its potential suitors. Forget it for a decade and drink it over the following 50+ years. RP

Region

BORDEAUX , France

Grape

Cabernet Franc,Merlot

Type

Red Wine

Serving Temperature

Room Temperature 15 to 18˚C

Wine Style

Aromatic, Complex, Elegant, Powerful

Body

Full-Bodied

Tannin

Medium-High

Acidity

Medium

Intensity

Medium

Sweetness

Dry

Food Match

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Beef

Lamb

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Ausone St Emilion 1er GCC A 2007

The 2007 Ausone is a candidate for one of the wines of the vintage, rivaling Pavie and Lafite Rothschild. Its deep ruby/purple hue is accompanied by a beautiful nose of spring flowers, raspberries, black currants, and crushed rocks. The wine is dense, medium to full-bodied, and pure with sweet tannin as well as a surprisingly evolved, forward style. It is one of the few Ausones I have tasted that can be drunk with great pleasure at this stage, yet it promises to evolve for two decades. RP

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Ausone St Emilion 1er GCC A 2008

Possibly the “wine of the vintage,” the 2008 boasts an inky/blue/purple color as well as a glorious perfume of spring flowers, blueberry and blackberry liqueur, camphor, truffles and crushed rocks. With great fruit on the attack and mid-palate, a medium to full-bodied, multidimensional mouthfeel and a skyscraper-like finish, this prodigious effort over-delivers, even for this phenomenal terroir. Give it 5-8 years of cellaring and drink it over the following 40-50 years. RP

$7,160

Ausone St Emilion 1er GCC A 2011

95₊

This is extremely open and aromatic, with exotic fruit. Extremely wild. Full body, firm, silky tannins and a long, focused finish. This is very persistent and long. A top wine for the vintage. Muscular and toned. The old vines of cabernet franc make the difference here. 55% cabernet franc and 45% merlot. JS

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