1952 Château Ausone

Community Tasting Notes (9) Median Score: 93 points

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  4/13/2020 - William Kelley Likes this wine: 93 Points

  The 1952 Château Ausone is showing superbly, offering up a kaleidoscopic and fully mature bouquet of griotte cherries and plums mingled with caramelized orange rind, warm spices, tobacco, candle wax and sweet soil tones. Medium to full-bodied, layered and satiny, it's incisive but enveloping, with built around melting tannins and lively acids, and concluding with a long, intensely sapid finish which—along with the wine's exotic aromatics—is its defining characteristic.

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  2/15/2020 - vinhonotte Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Medium garnet, slightly cloudy, and significant fading at the edges. Pronounced nose, with very developed dried prunes, slight raisins, and also somewhat herbal of wolfberry and dates. Very soft and silky on the palate, slight acids to add an apparent freshness, and intense developed fruit flavours, somewhat of prunes, orange peel, and slightly candied dates, and slight herbal fungal sense. Pity the wine did not pull through and finish was fairly short, otherwise it would have been amazing. All in all still great

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  2/15/2020 - Gabsby Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Visually clear with moderate sediment. A bright, low intensity, garnet core with a tawny rim which showed to be medium - on viscosity. Nose was clean and developed, exhibiting subtle primary notes of sour cherries and red plums. Tertiary notes showed traces of old leaves, cordyceps, wet earth and dry spices. Dry, medium bodied, moderate acidity, medium + alcohol, silky tannins and with a long finish. This is a wine that is well balanced and has aged elegantly. It still has it going after coming close to seven decades.

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  11/20/2019 - Jeff Leve wrote: 95 Points

  Young wines should never taste old. And old wines, when they are great, should retain some youthful characteristics. At close to 70, this light red, bricky hued beauty showed all the best aspects of tertiary and olfactory development/ Yet, there was still a fabulous array of earth, tobacco, and stony red fruits to enjoy. The tannins have melted away with age. The remaining fruits offered lift, freshness and sweetness in the finish. We were lucky this bottle was so good, as that's not always the case with wines of this age. But when old wines hit, that's when the magic happens!

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  9/8/2019 - grapenomad wrote: 95 Points

  Officially the oldest wine I've tried to this date. How the fuck is this still kicking?! Acid glued together with fruit concentration and alcohol - this is what makes wines age gracefully. Although fully developed and all tertiary now, at the age of 67, this classically built Bordeaux is still surprisingly fresh and enormously enjoyable. Outstanding.

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