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2005 Chateau Ausone (1.5L OWC)
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QUANTITY AVAILABLE: 6
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PRICE ABOVE IS PER MAGNUM, ONLY AVAILABLE IN 6 MAGNUM ORIGINAL WOOD CASE
Vintage: 2005
Format: 1.5L
Wine Name: Chateau Ausone
Vineyard:
Designation:
Appellation: St. Emilion
Producer: Chateau Ausone
Varietal: Red Bordeaux Blend
Type: Red
Country: France
Region: Bordeaux
Sub-Region: Libournais
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Tasting note: Tasted twice during barrel ageing, including once side by side with the 2003. I believe the 2005 to be more fat and even better than 2003. Dark and intense color. The nose is intense, fine, pure, noble and very complex. This complexity of flavors floods the palate, making the wine dancing with the fruit. The wine has an extreme length very tasty that comes along with a refined texture giving the impression of a strength built for ages. It will go through the twenty-first century! Wait until 2015. (98pts. Jean-Marc Quarin)
Tasted: Jan. 2007
Score: 98
Drink: 2015+
Tasting note: 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. (100pts. Robert Parker)
Tasted: Apr. 2008
Score: 100
Drink: 2030-80
Tasting note: Deep ruby-red. Penetrating aromas of cassis and minerals. The nose does not prepare one for this huge, improbably sweet, palate-saturating wine, whose pungent minerality and epic intensity makes it solid as a rock. The three-dimensional texture here is uncanny, and the wine's explosive finishing flavors of dark berries, bitter chocolate and minerals persist for minutes. This must be one of the three or four greatest young Bordeaux I've ever tasted. The numbers here: 14.28% alcohol, 3.55 pH and an IPT between 80 and 85. This will go on for several decades, and I would not be at all surprised if it shut down in bottle for a very long time. (98+?pts. Stephen Tanzer)
Tasted: May/Jun. 2008
Score: 98+?
Drink: N/A
Tasting note: I love the tobacco, berry, cigar box, toasty oak, ripe fruit and fresh mushroom flavors in this full-bodied red, which has ultralayered tannins and vanilla, new oak and berry character. Powerful and superconcentrated, with great length. This is a muscular, full-throttle wine, racing very, very fast. (100pts. JS, Wine Spectator)
Tasted: Mar. 31, 2008
Score: 100
Drink: After 2019
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