2006 Chateau Ausone (750ml - 6 bottle case)

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Vintage: 2006
Format: 750ml
Wine Name: Chateau Ausone
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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: Bright medium ruby. Brooding, pure aromas of blackberry, blueberry, boysenberry, espresso and minerals. Wonderfully dense yet weightless, with a penetrating calcaire energy to its sappy black fruit and mineral flavors. This has filled out impressively since its early days in barrel but is still just at the beginning of its evolution. The slowly mounting, compellingly long finish saturates the palate with flavor, and the substantial tannins are amazingly sweet and fine-grained. My early candidate for wine of the vintage: this fills the mouth with perfume but its fruit of steel suggests that it will last a very long time. I won't be around to drink this beauty at its peak. (97pts. Stephen Tanzer)

Tasted: May 2009
Score: 97
Drink: N/A

Tasting note: Cedar, new wood and crushed blackberry and raspberry aromas follow through to a palate of vanilla, berry and blackberry character. Balanced and modern, with lots of fruit. Lively, with bright acidity. (93pts. JS, Wine Spectator)

Tasted: Mar. 31, 2009
Score: 93
Drink: After 2014

Tasting note: One of the handful of candidates for wine of the vintage is the 2006 Ausone. In fact, while tasting it, I was thinking, is there any estate in Bordeaux that, since 1998, has made as many legendary wines as proprietor Alain Vauthier has at his beloved Ausone? Boasting an inky/blue/purple color as well as an extraordinary, precise bouquet of minerals, flowers, blueberry liqueur, and black currants, this wine possesses fabulous fruit and great intensity, but what makes it so special is its precision, focus, and almost ethereal lightness despite substantial flavor intensity and depth. It is a ballerina with density and power. The abundant noticeable tannin is sweet and, not surprisingly, very finely grained. It should be cellared for a decade, and consumed over the following half century. (98pts. Robert Parker)

Tasted: Feb. 2009
Score: 98
Drink: 2019-69

Tasting note: My rating has increased since tasting it as future. Barrel ageing has enabled this wine to melts its vivid characteristics that I found over a year ago during futures tastings. Lovely intense purple color. Aromatic nose, showing fruity yet quite discreet. Deliciously tactile, the wine develops aromatic while starting softly and picking up volume on the mid-palate. And that is where it improves its rating. After the middle, it reveals itself totally impossible not to swallow, with a very, very long and powerful finish. A very special wine, of ethereal appearance yet, showing really solid. (94pts. Jean-Marc Quarin)

Tasted: Mar. 2008
Score: 94
Drink: N/A