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Chateau Ausone Saint-Emilion 2022
Vendor code : 964
En Primeur 2022 campaign: the wine will arrive to the owners in 2025. Place your order online or with a personalized manager. We will fix the payment to receive the wine - it will arrive at your doorstep in two years. Thanks to the pre-purchase option (En Primeur), we have the chance to buy wines from Bordeaux at very attractive prices. Why buy in advance? Because it is favorable! You get the lowest possible price now and protect yourself against future currency fluctuations. It's reliable! The wine will be directly delivered to you from the château cellars, which guarantees 100% protection against counterfeiting. Get access to unique examples! Wines that are readily available today can quickly become rare, appearing on the market two years from now. Chateau Ausone is named after the Roman poet Ausonius, who owned some of the vineyards around Saint-Emilion. If you ask almost any château owner to name the best terroir in Bordeaux, the vast majority will say Chateau Ausone, resulting in one of the region's most characterful and long-lasting wines, endowed with remarkable intensity, precision and persistence. This terroir has turned Chateau Ausone into one of the best producers in the world, as evidenced in the Chateau Ausone 2022 (one of the best vintages of the Chateau).
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The 2022 Ausone is a strong candidate to be the wine of the vintage. The aroma has hints of mint, plum, raspberry, spice and cherry. It is full-bodied, smooth, and sensual, with a satiny structure that transitions to a deep, layered core of fruit, striking precision with intensity without heaviness. The 2022 Ausone is built on vibrant acids and ultra-fine tannins, culminating in a resonant finish, this deep young Ausone represents the essence of this great limestone terroir.
Château Ausone is one of four wines, according to the 2012 Official Classification of Saint-Emilion, of the Premier Grand Cru Classé "A" category, i.e. the highest in the classification. Château Ausone is located on a hillside outside St-Emilion with steeply terraced vineyards facing south. The château takes its name from the ancient Roman poet Ausoneus, who was famous for his writings on viticulture and according to legend lived in the area where the château now stands. Château Ausone owns 7 hectares of vineyards in St Emilion, planted at a density of 6,500 to 12,600 vines per hectare. The steep, hillside, calcareous terroir is complemented by a clay content of 15 to 20%. This soil composition gives the wines of Chateau Ausone an intense mineral character. The vineyard is partly in a low-lying area, which preserves the grapes from frost. The vines have an average age of 50 years. Château Ausone also has some of the oldest vines in St Emilion, the oldest of which were planted in 1906. Yields are kept low, averaging 33 hl/ha. The Château Ausone vineyard is planted with 55% Cabernet Franc and 45% Merlot. There are also a small number of Cabernet Sauvignon vines, which only go into the production of the second wine. The small size of the vineyard allows for proper attention to be given to each vine. The modern style of Chateau Ausone is unique - minerality from massive deposits of limestone in the soil, the berries retain the purity of varietal flavors, and the wine is rich, full-bodied, and concentrated but not heavy. On the palate, there is a generous tannin structure, but the tannins are ripe. A wine with powerful aromatics and organoleptic richness. When young, Château Ausone wines can be tannic and require at least 10 years to develop in a bottle. Château Ausone is built for aging, has tremendous aging potential, and can live for 50-100 years under proper storage conditions.
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William Kelley:"A blend of equal parts Merlot and Cabernet Franc, the 2022 Ausone unwinds in the glass with aromas of plums, raspberries and cherries complemented by hints of crushed mint and spices, framed by a lavish patina of creamy new oak. Full-bodied, layered and rather muscular, it's deep and concentrated, its vibrant core of fruit framed by a serious chassis of rich, powdery tannins, concluding with a long, saline finish. Given its imposing levels of structuring extract, it will require patience."
James Suckling
This is really open with bright and flamboyant aromas of cassis and cherries. Blueberries. Some peaches as well. I don't remember a young Ausone like that. Full-bodied with flamboyant fruit and energy. Very fine tannins. They are there but you don't feel them. Supple but very fruity. And intensely fruity at the end.
Jeb Dunnuck
The Grand Vin from this hallowed terroir is an even split of Cabernet Franc and Merlot that was fermented in wooden vats and will spend 20 months in new barrels. Its saturated purple hue is followed by an up-front, sexy, full-bodied Ausone offering a wealth of fruit as well as notes of black cherries, blueberries, chocolate, scorched earth, and an incredible sense of spring flowers. Concentrated and incredibly pure, with silky tannins on the palate, it has the texture and fruit to almost shine even now but should still evolve for 30 years or more.
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