Ausone, (St.-Emilion) Magnum,

Ausone, (St.-Emilion) Magnum,

Bordeaux Red from France

Vintage: 2005
Winery: Ausone
Description: "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. Anticipated maturity: 2030-2080+.". - Robert Parker, Wine Advocate (100 points). "i love the tobacco, berry, cigar box, toasty oak, ripe fruit and fresh mushroom flavors in this full-bodied red, which has ultra layered tannins and vanilla, new oak and berry character. Powerful and super concentrated, with great length. This is a muscular, full-throttle wine, racing very, very fast. Best after 2019. 1,330 cases made.". – Wine Spectator (100 points). "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.". – Vinous (98+ points)
Price: $ 8995.00
Price in original currency: None

Previously available from Sherry-Lehmann

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First added to 1000 Corks on February 1, 2016.

This product was inactivated November 23, 2019.

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