COMMENT
サン・テミリオンのみならずボルドーを代表するシャトーのひとつ。
ワインの質の高さと生産量の少なさから希少な一本となっています。
植樹面積は7.25h。伝統的な木桶での発酵の後、20ヶ月の樽熟成を行います。
溢れんばかりの熟したブラックチェリーやブルーベリーの香りにスミレやチョコレート。
凝縮した果実味の後に鉱物的なニュアンスが広がり、引き締まった骨格と驚くほど長い余韻に驚かされるワインです。
2021 Ausone
The Wine Advocate
RP 94+
Reviewed by: William Kelley
Release Price: NA
Drink Date: 2030 - 2055
The 2021 Ausone was the fruit of a challenging growing season, the estate's second year in organic conversion coinciding with notable diseases pressure, but the resulting blend of 65% Cabernet Franc and 35% Merlot (featuring a touch more Cabernet Franc than normal) was one of the most seductive wines of the en primeur campaign, its exotic perfume and crystalline purity evoking the great Ausone vintages of yesteryear and offering an unvarnished representation of this superb limestone terroir. In bottle, the 2021 remains an excellent wine, but at least out of the gates, its élevage (in 90% new oak, predominantly from Demptos and Taransaud, with four rackings) has taken the lead, intermingling aromas of vanilla, spices and toast with discreet notes of minty dark berries, cherries, petals and pencil shavings. On the palate, it's medium to full-bodied, layered and fleshy, with an ample and enveloping core of fruit that retains its energy and purity but which gives way to a finish marked by somewhat assertive barrel tannins. Given the inherent quality of the wine and the terroir, I'm sure time will be kind to it, but I'm not quite sure it will ever realize the magical potential it showed in April 2022.
Published: Feb 09, 2024