2005 Château Ausone, St Emilion, Bordeaux

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2005 Château Ausone, St Emilion, BordeauxOwner Alain Vauthier's modest yet confident smile immediately gave us a clue that he had made a special wine this year. Made from 55% Cabernet Franc and 45% Merlot, it has a wonderful ethereal dark chocolate and black fruit nose followed by an unbelieveably rich and concentrated palate of fresh, but incredibly intense, brambly fruit. A formidable structure with massive but very fine tannins comes courtesy of the old vine Cabernet Franc. This is a

precise concentrated wines

but it is also the location of the first English commercial vineyard

Youthful and bright

the Hautes-Côtes de Beaune and Nuits

combining the very best of modernity and tradition

deliver wine to the palate of the consumer in a way that maximises its enjoyment

reliable core strength of a barrel-hauling cooper – as opposed to the oiled

reaching nearly 400 meters above sea level

The salinity and piquancy are already exciting yet still nervous and youthful—this should be an extremely buoyant Auslese in 20 years

with ripe apricots

as well as old vines from the lower slopes of the Coteaux de Brézé

Mademoiselle’ M’ is made from vines grown in richer and more structured Kimmeridgian-limestone soils