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Château Ausone Saint Émilion Red Bordeaux Blend 2005
A tiny production of just over 1,300 cases will make the 2005 Ausone impossible to find, but proprietor Alain Vauthier continues to exhibit the Midas touch with his perfectionist efforts at this estate. This brilliant, blue/black-hued offering reveals an extraordinarily youthful, but promising nose of incense, blueberries, blackberries, currants, licorice, and crushed rocks. This intense 2005 boasts powerful, super-layered, multidimensional flavors with tremendous extraction, yet they come across as incredibly sublime, even delicate for such a stunningly concentrated, full-bodied effort. A masterpiece of concentration and balance, it will no doubt be drinking well a century from now... Robert Parker
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The 2005 Ausone is magnificent. A wine of soaring intensity and class, the 2005 dazzles from the very first taste. The aromatics alone are captivating, with notes of cinnamon, mint, crushed rocks, blood orange, mocha and incense. Graceful and stately in bearing, the 2005 boasts tremendous purity and breathtaking balance. Readers will find a stunning Saint-Émilion that is just at the beginning of what promises to be a very long drinking window that will be measured in decades. It is a towering achievement from the Vauthier family. (Antonio Galloni, Vinous, April 2021)
The 2005 Ausone is magnificent. A wine of soaring intensity and class, the 2005 dazzles from the very first taste. The aromatics alone are captivating, with notes of cinnamon, mint, crushed rocks, blood orange, mocha and incense. Graceful and stately in bearing, the 2005 boasts tremendous purity and breathtaking balance. Readers will find a stunning Saint-Émilion that is just at the beginning of what promises to be a very long drinking window that will be measured in decades. It is a towering achievement from the Vauthier family. (Antonio Galloni, Vinous, April 2021)
10
Yianni Stone
Modern density with old school tannin. Chaulky.
Modern density with old school tannin. Chaulky.
9.3
John Van Trijp
What a wine!
What a wine!
10
Ron Siegel
Polished & balanced that is tight & structured. Just needs more time.
Polished & balanced that is tight & structured. Just needs more time.
9.4
Cecilia Sánchez
Febrero 17, 2017 Oficina PV, SLP: ESS, Barron, Huicho, Maryelena y Jorge, Galli, Hernestillo, NOS
Febrero 17, 2017 Oficina PV, SLP: ESS, Barron, Huicho, Maryelena y Jorge, Galli, Hernestillo, NOS
9.9
Gerardo Serrano Gaviño
28 de Mayo, Pablo, Barron y yo.
28 de Mayo, Pablo, Barron y yo.
9.5Cecilia Sánchez
28 mayo 2014 Bounarotti : Jc Barron, Gerardo chilito y NOS
28 mayo 2014 Bounarotti : Jc Barron, Gerardo chilito y NOS
9.4
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