Château Ausone 2020
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£3,200.00
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IN BOND
Delivery 2023
Appellation - St Emilion
Owner - Alain Vauthier
50% Merlot, 50% Cabernet Franc
Second wine – Chapelle d'Ausone
Annual production – 22,000 bottles
TASTING NOTES
"This is powerful and blows away much of the competition with its depth and layers. This needs you to pull up a chair, take a beat, and let the flavours unroll. There is so much density to the blueberry, bilberry and smoked raspberry fruits that they start out knitted down, then as the oxygen opens them up the body of the wine widens and becomes fleshier and creamier, adding chocolate and mocha notes. The limestone scrape is there in spades through the finish, and this is a cleverly constructed wine. As ever Ausone is just a masterclass in how to take apart and then put back together a terroir. Great stuff. First year of official conversion to organic farming. 100% new oak, some in 30hl oak casks. Could go up after tasting in bottle, a potential 100 points."Jane Anson, Decanter.com, May 2021
98/100
