2011 Château Ausone

Community Tasting Notes (10) Avg Score: 94.6 points

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  4/11/2024 - beatles wrote: 95 Points

  Charming stuff. Elegant, free running, fruity, juicy. Very primary, yet sexy. Years to go here, unbridled charm. 95+
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  12/12/2023 - Collector1855 wrote: 93 Points

  Salon Ficofi Paris walkabout tasting and dinner, no detailed tasting notes. Relatively light, the 2009 next to it was in a different league.

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  9/8/2021 - Cailles wrote: 93 Points

  20 Vintages of Ausone (1986 - 2015): All wines tasted single blind. Ausone is a rare bird and hence, the term „once in a lifetime“ certainly applies to this tasting. A few oberservations: 1) Huge quality improvement in recent years: Only after 2005 I can see Ausone up there with the best Bordeauxs thanks to less oak, more depth and precision and a hightened elegance. 2) The high Cabernet Franc share in the blend (ever increasing) makes these wines quite unique, lighter and with more airiness and a darker fruit expression than most right banks. 3) The wines need a lot of time: Ausone is rather a late bloomer and does not provide as much early drinking fun as many of its right bank peers - especially the great vintages (05, 09, 10, 15). 4) The best wines with the highest scores were almost all off-vintages (a first for me). The highest scores went to 08, 06, 07, 14. These wines are weightless and show how great the big vintages will be once mature. Only the 05 was up there with the off-vintages. 5) Wine of the night and my best off-vintage Bordeaux ever was the 2008 (rated 98 pts).
  
  TN: Quite dark and dense wine with lots of concentration which when revealed was quite a surprise given the mediocre vintage. Without decanting and at the end of a long evening, it was quite difficult to judge. The structure was very good with fine, velvety tannins and a well-integrated acidity as well as a nicely creamy structure. The complexity was not really that high but it felt more muted than non-existant. 92-93 pts?
  
  Decanting: Not decanted, this seems to need quite a bit of air (I would go for at least two hours).

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  8/30/2021 - sirpat00 wrote: 95 Points

  Ausone vertical (20 vintages) (Fribourg): Ausone vertical featuring 20 vintages from the 1986-2015 period. Hosted by a private collector an moderated by J-M Quarin. All wines were served single-blind with no prior decant. What struck me was the outstanding performance of some of the off-vintages, especially 2008, 2007 and 2006. That said I was super-excited about the 2015 which was pretty closed but showed enormous potential. The notoriously late-maturing profile was apparent with many of the 90ies vintages not yet ready. Full list of vintages and scores included in the tasting story.
  
  Tasting note:
  A bit restrained or closed, but hinting at delicate and detailed flavours with a mostly red berry type of fruit, minty herbal notes, tea leaves and drops of coffee. Fruit-forward, juicy palate even if quite wild.

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  3/14/2015 - PT insurgent wrote:

  Nose: Found it quite closed, notes of floral, black fruits, sweet oak.
  Palate: high tannin and acid, tannins relatively fine and somewhat manageable at this youthful age. Notes of floral, vanilla, blackberry, plum.

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