Tasted April 2022: One of our favourites from this vintage, this 2021 is cool and balanced, with fine, savoury tannins. The palate is very concentrated with blackcurrant, raspberry, licquorice and aniseed. The acid is cooling and fresh but in great balance, and leaves you wanting to return for a second sip.
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A blend of 65% Cabernet Franc and 35% Merlot, the 2021 Ausone is a strong candidate for the title of wine of the vintage. Wafting from the glass with aromas of wild blueberries and raspberries mingled with rose petals, violets, exotic spices, vine smoke and blood orange, it's full-bodied, seamless and sensual, with a satiny attack that segues into a deep, layered mid-palate of breathtaking precision and intensity without weight. Built around bright acids and ultra-refined tannins and concluding with a resonant, perfumed finish, this profound young Ausone represents the essence of this great limestone terroir. I am not in the habit of drinking six-month-old Bordeaux cask samples, but this is one wine that would have sorely tempted me to make an exception to that rule if my appointment at the estate hadn't been one of the first of the day!
Maturity Ready 2013 - 2030
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Maturity Ready 2021 - 2034
Maturity Mature 2008
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