CHÂTEAU AUSONE 2016
CHÂTEAU AUSONE 2016
CHÂTEAU AUSONE 2016
CHÂTEAU AUSONE 2016
CHÂTEAU AUSONE 2016
CHÂTEAU AUSONE 2016
CHÂTEAU AUSONE 2016
CHÂTEAU AUSONE 2016
CHÂTEAU AUSONE 2016
CHÂTEAU AUSONE 2016
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2016

CHÂTEAU AUSONE 2016

Wine 2016 1er Grand Cru Classé A  Bordeaux Saint Emilion
100 / 100 Rated by 8 experts

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100 / 100
Jeff Leve - The Wine Cellar Insider September - 2019
Jeff Leve - The Wine Cellar Insider
Deep, dark garnet in colour, you are instantly hit with a unique note of flowers and crushed rocks as you first nose the wine. On the palate, it tastes and feels liquefied essences of rocks and perfectly ripe, dark pit fruit and blackberries. The wine has symmetry. Everything is in balance between the fruit, tannins and acidity. The seamless finish, with its non-stop waves of fruit coats your palate in all the right ways. The wine remains with you for over 60 seconds! From a blend of 50% Cabernet Franc and 50% Merlot, this is one of the wines of the vintage. If you have cash, and the time to wait for maturity, this is a future legend in the making!
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100 / 100
Falstaff June - 2017
Falstaff
Deep dark ruby red with violet reflections and a bright, narrow rim. Small dark berry fruits, a hint of nougat and mandarin, subtle fine wood notes – a multi-faceted bouquet. Juicy, very elegant, ripe cherry fruit with fine, supporting tannins. Great freshness, silky, light-footed style, salty-citrus nuances on the finish and very long. Excellent ageing potential.
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100 / 100
Andreas Larsson - Tasted March - 2017
Andreas Larsson - Tasted
Intense nose, pure, mineral with lovely ripe dark berries, violet and wet stone. Grainy tannin, dense but fresh with lovely proportions, savoury dark fruit, with sage and aniseed, freh blackberry and cassis notes keep lingering with some stony/chalky notes on the finish, tremendously long, vibrant and impressive.
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100 / 100
Jean-Marc Quarin August - 2020
Jean-Marc Quarin
Dark, intense and brilliant colour. Very aromatic nose, very refined and very deep, with ripe and very subtle fruit. Delightful from the entry on the palate, very smooth and velvety in the middle, with a melting body and yet a structure of unfailing solidity, the wine stagnates in the mid-palate, then melts before dissolving with the saliva, sophisticated in its progression, rare in its bearing, complex and deep in its aromas. Incredible! I should add that it is extremely rare to encounter red wines in tasting that are both rich and taut at the same time. In principle, a low pH prevents the wine from settling in the mid-palate. Not here and not in 2016!
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100 / 100
Jane Anson - Inside Bordeaux May - 2022
Jane Anson - Inside Bordeaux
Hefty, structured tannins, dark chocolate, espresso and liquorice root. This is powerful, the quality and complexity in full evidence from beginning to end, unrolls in waves and uses its pumice stone and slate-edged structure to climb towards a mouthwatering finish. A wine that I have tasted twice in the past two months, and you feel it is both barely showing its hand, and yet already effortlessly asserting its brilliance.
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99 / 100
Robert PARKER - The Wine Advocate November - 2018
Robert PARKER - The Wine Advocate
The 2016 Ausone is a blend of 50% Cabernet Franc and 50% Merlot. Deep garnet-purple coloured, it's quite closed at first glance, slowly unfurling to reveal the most incredible perfume of violets, chocolate-covered cherries, warm black plums, Black Forest cake and roasted nuts with suggestions of charcuterie, wood smoke and cedar chest. The medium to full-bodied palate offers a quiet intensity of flavours that grow in the mouth to unveil layer after layer of black and red berries intertwined with beautiful savoury notions framed by firm yet velvety tannins, finishing with epic length and amazing energy. It practically tingles on the palate!
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19 / 20
La Revue du Vin de France January - 2020
La Revue du Vin de France
Green Guide 2020
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17,5/20
Jancis Robinson May - 2022
Jancis Robinson
Mid crimson. Sweet, medium intensity and only slightly medicinal. Quite a bit of alcohol and acidity that are not by any means married. Very youthful. Finish is for the moment decidedly stringy. Then falls away.
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Vintage Wine  2016
Classification St Emilion - 1er Grand Cru Classé A 
Region Bordeaux
Appellation Saint Emilion
Colour Red
Volume 0.75 l
Country France
Bio Yes
Biodynamie Yes
Alcohol content 13.00% vol
Château Château Ausone
Château Ausone
Château Ausone

Château Ausone produces Bordeaux grand crus with the Saint-Emilion appellation in the south of France. This estate is one of the 4 châteaux to benefit from the Premier Grand Cru Classé A classification, along with Châteaux Angelus, Cheval Blanc and Pavie.

The 7-hectare vineyard is located on the slopes of Saint-Emilion. Built on the site of the villa of the Latin poet Ausonius, the estate benefits from a south-facing exposure, terraced vineyards and a balanced and very old grape variety mix. The cellar, carved into the rock, is extraordinary. It has undergone extensive work to reinforce the solidity of the structure. As for the wines, known to take time to assert themselves, they are dense, intense and with an aromatic complexity that allows Ausone to rank among the very top estates in Bordeaux. The main grape varieties are Merlot and Cabernet Franc, with a majority of 55% Cabernet Franc.

Among the greatest vintages of Château Ausone, the 1982 and 1983 vintages are excellent. The 1995 vintage, 1998 grand cru wine and the 2008 wines are exceptional. Finally, the 2000 classified growths and the 2005 vintage are considered extraordinary vintages, with the grand crus even receiving a score of 100/100 from Robert Parker.

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