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2012 Château Ausone
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The Merlot was harvested on October 9, 11 and 12, while the Cabernet Franc was picked October 13, 15 and 17, with yields of 32 hectoliters per hectare. The assemblage is 55% Cabernet Franc and 45% Merlot and will be aged in 85% new French oak for 18 months. Floral, stone, licorice and black cherries create the aromatics. Supple, rich, mineral-driven and polished black cherry and raspberries end with the one of the richest, most opulent finishes of the vintage. 95-97 Pts
96 points - Tasted Apr 26, 2013
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2011 Château Ausone
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From a blend of 55% Cabernet Franc and 45% Merlot, the wine goes through fermentation and maceration in thermoregulated wood vats and is aged in 100% new oak for about 20 months. Inky, dark and opaque with blue and purple accents in the color, this wine shows intense mineral, blackberry liqueur, blueberry, smoke, truffle and ripe, sweet essence of black cherry. Rich, concentrated, lush and mouth filling, the wine is graceful, elegant and balanced. This is a definite candidate for wine of the vintage. 96-98 Pts
97 points - Tasted Apr 24, 2012
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2010 Château Ausone
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Ausone From a blend of 55% Cabernet Franc, 45% Merlot, the wine will be aged in 100% new oak for about 20 months. 67% of the yields were placed into Ausone, the remainder will become Chapelle d’Ausone . The nose offers aromas of broken rocks, sweet, ripe, dark berries, licorice, flowers, spice, minerality and smoke. Full bodied, rich, and concentrated, this supple, polished wine is filled with fresh berries, freshness, spice, jam, fennel, minerality and black cherry in the finish. 95-97 Pts
96 points - Tasted Apr 21, 2011
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2009 Château Ausone
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2009 Ausone offers crushed stone, smoke, fennel, and black with blue fruits in the nose. Full bodied and supple, this rich, silky, voluptuous wine, produced from 55% cabernet franc and 45% merlot, ends with sweet plums, minerals, and dark berries. 96-98 Pts
97 points - Tasted Jul 28, 2010
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2008 Château Ausone
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2008 Ausone smells like you just stepped into a rock quarry that is in full production. This intense sensation of minerality is enhanced with scents of fresh, ripe, blackberry, coffee, oak, spice and violets. Full bodied and intense, this opulent, concentrated, deep, suave polished wine is long, fresh, intense and pure. It really fills your mouth and palate, ending with a finish that lasts close to sixty seconds! 98 Pts
98 points - Tasted Jul 18, 2010
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08 Château Ausone contends for wine of the vintage. The wine is densely concentrated with stunning levels of rich, ripe, opulent fruit. Great purity of flavors emerge in the long, elegant, mouth filling finish that leaves your palate coated with black and red fruits, spice, and chocolate. Proprietor Alain Vauthier continues slowly but steadily to increase the levels of cabernet franc planted on the property at the measured pace of about ¼ HA every three or four years. 96-99 Pts
98 points - Tasted Aug 1, 2009
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2005 Château Ausone
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Like Archie Bell and the Drells, this wine has started to tighten up. It was hard to get a read on the wine. Deep colors with beautiful, mineral laden perfume. But the wine was not fully open and the finish was held in reserve. With ample coaxing, I was able to catch a glimpse of the wines purity, ripeness, complexities and charm. The wine is shutting down for a long sleep. Having had this multiple times since late 05, I have no doubt this wine will be a legend on maturity.
96 points - Tasted Jul 21, 2008
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The deep, almost opaque color catches your eye before your nose experiences a wealth of mineral, infused fruit. Then... boom! A huge mouthful of delicious ripe, Cab Franc and Merlot takes over every one of your senses. The finish which fills your palate and every nook and cranny of your mouth with fat, sexy, rich and absolutely seamless. Not a thing was out of place, everything was in balance.
100 points - Tasted Nov 9, 2007
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This Bordeaux elixir tasted like a boysenberry volcano erupted and they bottled the lava. It is that thick and intense. Minerals, chocolate, insane levels of concentration, intense purity and a finish lasting over a minute are the hallmarks of the wine.
100 points - Tasted Jun 22, 2007
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2003 Château Ausone
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With effort, licorice, caramel, intense minerality, floral, boysenberry, blueberry, plum, espresso bean and spice scents start to come alive. There is incredible levels of concentration in this wine. It's packed and stacked with all the right stuff to age and develop for decades. However, it's not a lot of fun to drink today. The sensation of quality is there, but it's like taking a Ferrari for a spin in a parking lot. Smells good, sounds good and feels even better. But it needs to open up. Currently, it's tight and primary. 2003 Ausone demands air, coaxing and time to come But if you have the money and want an example of the best Right Bank of the vintage, this is the wine to buy!
100 points - Tasted Dec 13, 2012
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This Bordeaux wine is pitch black! Like a black hole in space, light does not pass through. On the nose, an incredible smell of blackberry liqueur, intense levels of minerals, spice, herbs and earth takes over your nose, makes you sit up straight and pay attention. Incredibly concentrated with so much rich, deep, ripe fruit, the best way to imbibe this massive wine might be with a spoon. It is that unctuous! The wine should been decanted all day instead of 3 hours as it only teased us with what it will deliver when fully mature.
100 points - Tasted Jul 20, 2007
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2002 Château Ausone
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Caramel, smoke, stone, blackberry, plum and cherry notes lead to a primary wine that offers all the right stuff. But it's a long way from maturity and demands time in the cellar.
96 points - Tasted Dec 13, 2012
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2001 Château Ausone
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The level of truffle, crushed stone, floral, boysenberry, gunpowder, smoke and fennel is close to being off the charts. Thick, rich, intense and concentrated with sweet, ripe fruit and lush tannins that are perfected by a finish that continues to linger, this is a stunning St. Emilion and the of wine of the vintage.
98 points - Tasted Dec 13, 2012
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OMFG! Those 4 letters should say it all. This magic Bordeaux elixir is a mind blowing tasting experience! The perfume might get you started with its blend of deep, dark, fruits, minerals and spices, but the endless waves of perfectly ripe fruit, power, glycerin, elegance and balance that lasts close to :90 are going to keep you interested in the wine. Still young, no make that still very young, this is an amazing tasting experience that is a reference point wine. 01 Ausone truly expresses an amazing purity of fruit that is seldom found in any wine.
98 points - Tasted Jun 6, 2008
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Inky black with shiny deep purple accents. The aromatics come out to play with coaxing. Flowers, black and blue fruits, spices and minerals already show themselves. On the palate, your mouth and senses are treated to a focused display few wines show. The riveting palate presence, with layer after layer of some of the sexiest, ripest, most opulent fruit you'll ever taste is out of this world! Very tannic backbone. This will age for decades. But, there is so much fresh, perfectly ripe fruit, it's already easy to discern how good this is, and even better, how amazing it's going to be!
97 points - Tasted Dec 27, 2006
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2000 Château Ausone
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Violets, smoke, raspberries, flowers, coffee and minerals are to die for! Keep in mind, this is all from a 6 year old wine! This has so much glycerin, tannin and rich, amazingly ripe fruit, it’s hard to believe. The over sixty second finish is completely seamless. The 2000 Ausone has to be experienced because words do not do it justice. Petrus strives to be this good and distinctive
100 points - Tasted Mar 14, 2006
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This wine combines levels concentrated fruit with a viscosity that has to be tasted to be believed! It combines the thickness of motor oil with pure silk and velvet! While insanely ripe, it's not over the top and maintains a balance and sophistication I've never previously encountered in any wine. Take perfectly ripe black fruit, crushed rocks plus exotic spice and find a way to place a magnum worth of wine into a single bottle and you get an idea of what this beauty will taste like.
100 points - Tasted Nov 7, 2004
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1999 Château Ausone
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When first offered, this vintage of Chateau Ausone was a bargain at not much over $100. Those days are gone. At prices that make Lafite Rothschild look like a bargain, it's always a treat to taste Ausone. Broken stone, licorice, flowers, boysenberry, smoke, coffee and spice open the aromatics. Tannic, intense, pure, concentrated and mouth filling, the wine coats your tongue with pleasure ending with layers of fresh, ripe, pure, juicy plums and stone. Still young, give it another decade before the fireworks explode. Having tasted this several times over the years, this is the best showing yet for the 1999 Ausone.
97 points - Tasted Feb 21, 2012
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Minerality, smoke, blackberry, herbs, forrest scents and stone make up the complex perfume that is found with ample coaxing. Full bodied and filled with soft, ripe, dark fruit, this wine will drink younger than most Vauthier era Ausone wines.
94 points - Tasted May 22, 2010
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It's a study in texture, concentration and minerality. Still young, this stellar wine offers a unique profile for St. Emilion. From a cool year, this wine is a major accomplishment. Liqueur of black fruit and plums pour over your mouth and linger. Still young, assuming you can use the words value and Ausone together in the same sentence, this is the wine to buy if you want to drink it young.
95 points - Tasted Jun 6, 2008
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1998 Château Ausone
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Still youthful in appearance, the wine offers minerality, floral, earth, licorice and smoky blackberries in the perfume. Concentrated and tannic, the wine is a bit firm and requires at least another decade to soften and come together.
94 points - Tasted Dec 12, 2012
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With its high proportion of Cabernet Franc, (almost 50%), remains tight at ten years of age. With decanting, black fruits, herbs, minerals and spices can be coaxed from the glass. Good concentration of raw materials. In character, the wine is slightly rustic in nature, especially when compared to Ausone produced at the Chateau in 1999 and later. This bottle indicates that 10-15 more years are needed before truly beginning to fully express its qualities.
93 points - Tasted Oct 10, 2008
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1996 Château Ausone
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96 Ausone showed a nice expression of ripe black and red fruits with an interesting mineral component. Very fragrant. Good texture. This is close to mature, but a few more years will help soften the wine and offer additional palate complexities. Tasted recently, I preferred the 95 Ausone. For a 96 Right Bank, this is a major success for the region.
93 points - Tasted Sep 22, 2010
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Still young, this voluptuously styled wine is rich in character. Very sophisticated and lush. Dark berries, plums, spice and striking minerality are the hallmarks of this wine. Still young, this tannic wine needs another decade or two to flesh out.
93 points - Tasted Nov 1, 2005
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1983 Château Ausone
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Aromatically, it offered an interesting, spicy, mineral characteristic along with bright fruit tones, black raspberries and plums. Fully mature, rich and elegant, this will not improve.
91 points - Tasted Feb 17, 2005
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1982 Château Ausone
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Smoke, tobacco, cassis, stone, red plum, spice and black raspberry and floral scents create the perfume. Medium/full bodied and soft in texture, the wine finishes with red and black, spice coated berries. This is a nice, fully mature St. Emilion. It lacks the depth and levels of concentration found in the wines being made at the estate today.
92 points - Tasted Nov 28, 2011
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1964 Château Ausone
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1964 Ausone was deep ruby with bricking in color. Spice, minerals, plums, truffles, dark cherries, cassis, forest floor and tobacco notes are in abundance. The silky, rich, thick mouth feel expresses the patina of age. The finish could have been longer, but I really liked the wine. While I do not get to taste enough Right Bank wines from 1964, the wines I have tasted continue to be impressive. 64 is the mature version of 1998.
93 points - Tasted Oct 27, 2010
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1959 Château Ausone
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Light ruby with bricking and tea in color, the nose offers sweet strawberries, tobacco, truffle, smoke, earth, spice box, cherry and stone aromas. Medium bodied, soft and silky in texture, this is more than fully mature and requires consumption.
90 points - Tasted Jul 13, 2012
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1955 Château Ausone
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WOW! What a treat and a surprise to taste. Served blind, I was sure this was decades younger due to its fresh fruit, aromatics and palate presence. Packed with ripe, jamy berries, minerality and smoky, tobacco scents, the wine was rich, plush, long and silky.
93 points - Tasted Oct 16, 2012
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