Description

In Saint-Emilion, Chateau Ausone has chosen to carefully cultivate its grapes which flourish on a terroir of just under 10 hectares composed of clay and limestone. Aged about fifty years, the grapes are carefully cultivated according to organic principles, hand-picked and attentively sorted before vinification in wooden vats. The wine is aged in barrels (100% new wood) for about twenty months. Concentrated, deep, and elegant, it is a proven wine for aging, surprising the lucky enthusiast with very fine tannins.

Wine Advocate : “The 2023 Ausone reveals an incipient bouquet of violet, smoke, dark wild berries, spices and cherries, all beautifully interwoven with creamy new oak. Medium to full-bodied, layered and concentrated, with a rich chassis of tannin, it has a vibrant core of fruit and a long, mineral, vanillin-inflected finish. At 60% Cabernet Franc and 40% Merlot, this ranks alongside the 2014 vintage as one of the most Cabernet-dominant Ausone vintages of recent years, and it will mature for 20 months in new oak barrels.”