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2018 Ch Ausone 1er Grand Cru Classé St Emilion - 6x75cl
  • Colour Red
  • Producer Château Ausone
  • Region St Emilion
  • Grape Merlot / Cabernet Franc
  • Drinking 2025 - 2048
  • Case size 6x75cl
  • Available Now

2018 - Ch Ausone 1er Grand Cru Classé St Emilion - 6x75cl

  • Colour Red
  • Producer Château Ausone
  • Region St Emilion
  • Grape Merlot / Cabernet Franc
  • Drinking 2025 - 2048
  • Case size 6x75cl
  • Available Now
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Case price: £3,323.12 Duty Paid inc VAT
Equivalent Bottle Price: £553.85 Duty Paid inc VAT
Case price: £2,750.00 In Bond
Please note: This wine is available for immediate delivery.
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  • Goedhuis, April 2019, Score: 98-100

    Tasted at the end of our day in St Emilion and what a way to finish. This is a sensational Ausone. Bright violet aromas, with an almost lacquered veneer of fresh summer berries. It is opulent and yet without excess. Delicious cherry fruit flavours, and a harmoniously graceful style so typical of great St Emilion. Mouth-coatingly rich, the tannins sit comfortably underneath all the bright fresh fruit flavours. The layers of warm fruit and silky composure just keep evolving in the palate. This really is a wine of true breeding and class.

  • Goedhuis, April 2019, Score: 98-100

    Tasted at the end of our day in St Emilion and what a way to finish. This is a sensational Ausone. Bright violet aromas, with an almost lacquered veneer of fresh summer berries. It is opulent and yet without excess. Delicious cherry fruit flavours, and a harmoniously graceful style so typical of great St Emilion. Mouth-coatingly rich, the tannins sit comfortably underneath all the bright fresh fruit flavours. The layers of warm fruit and silky composure just keep evolving in the palate. This really is a wine of true breeding and class.

  • Antonio Galloni, April 2019, Score: 97-100

    The 2018 Ausone is off the charts. Deep, sensual and mysterious, the 2018 is going to need many years to show the full breadth of its potential. And yet, there is so much there. Rich and concentrated on the palate, with phenomenal persistence, the 2018 is loaded with energy, tension and precision, offering a compelling interplay of opulence, saline intensity and structure. It is without question one of the wines of the vintage.

  • Wine Advocate, April 2019, Score: 98-100

    The 2018 Ausone is composed of 60% Cabernet Franc and 40% Merlot. The Merlot was harvested September 25 and 27, and the Cabernet Franc was harvested October 3, 8 and 9. Deep purple-black in color, it is an impenetrable wall to begin, unrelenting without persistent coaxing, at last uncoiling to offer glimpses at preserved plums, blueberry coulis, molten licorice and underbrush with emerging scents of lavender, iron ore, crushed stones, charcoal and Indian spices plus a waft of red roses. Full-bodied, rich, decadent and tightly knit, it offers layer upon layer of fruit, spice and mineral nuances with a firm frame of exquisitely fine tannins and bold freshness, finishing with epic length and heart-stopping beauty.

  • James Suckling, April 2019, Score: 99-100

    This is really exotic with wild-fruit character that I have seldom encountered in Ausone. Full-bodied yet reserved and very tight. Amazing depth and purity of fruit. Incredible beauty. Sexy.

  • Decanter, April 2019, Score: 98

    Pauline Vauthier is the 11th generation of the family to be producing wine here. It's always such an incredible wine, and as ever you can see that they are playing a different game from so many others. The juice, the slate, the minerality, the drip-drip-drip of freshly squeezed berries, spice and barely-there tannins, the sapidity on the finish. Amazing! Harvest ran from 25 September to 9 October. 3.6pH. 100% new oak. Drinking Window 2028 - 2042

  • Matthew Jukes, April 2019, Score: 19.5+

    Extremely intense and incredibly perfumed, this is a very rich and power-packed Ausone and the fruit is almost impenetrable thanks to the density of the flavour. Deep crimson in colour and with immense spice and earth underpinning the majestic fruit, this is a frighteningly youthful wine and a vintage which one probably shouldn’t touch for thirty years. The nose gives away more about the wine than the palate, which is resolutely introverted, and it shows a glittering array of aromatics – fruit, spice, herb, flower and earth. One of the wines of the vintage, this is an anthem to Cabernet Franc and its awesome potential which was realised in 2018.

  • Julia Harding, April 2019, Score: 17.5+

    Black core with narrow purple rim. Intense, aromatic if slightly charry cassis. Very fine fruit – intense but surprisingly juicy and fresh. Rounded yet powerful. Chewy and with a great undertow of terrific, perfectly ripe fruit and there's a much clearer influence of Cabernet Franc here, with that freshness it brings. Just fresh enough but would show a lot better if the sample were cooler. Drink 2028-2040

Producer

Château Ausone

Known the world over for its magnificent terroir, Château Ausone is located at the core of St. Emilion at the top of a south facing hillside. It is here where one can breathe in the spectacular views over the Dordogne Valley. Breathing in to prevent a heart attack may not be such a bad idea either as its steep, slippery and ancient cobbled one-lane road is absolutely frightening. But after reaching its heights, one is trans...Read more

Known the world over for its magnificent terroir, Château Ausone is located at the core of St. Emilion at the top of a south facing hillside. It is here where one can breathe in the spectacular views over the Dordogne Valley. Breathing in to prevent a heart attack may not be such a bad idea either as its steep, slippery and ancient cobbled one-lane road is absolutely frightening. But after reaching its heights, one is transported to calm serenity by its cathedral-like hushed presence and of course its profound and silky wines.Ausone takes its name from the Roman poet Ausonius who supposedly owned vineyards around St. Emilion many years ago, and although he has long departed another creator has taken his place. Since the mid 1990s, the meticulous and thorough Alain Vauthier has been in charge of this historic estate. No expense has been spared in helping him create the most alluring wines possible. Notably modern in style, they are rich and clean with nuances of fine new oak barrels and opulent fruit. Despite his success, the same problem remains - very little wine. Its vineyard area measures less than 1/5 the size of neighbouring Cheval Blanc.Read less

Region

St Emilion

South of Pomerol lies the medieval, perched village of St Emilion. Surrounding St Emilion are vines that produce round, rich and often hedonistic wines. Despite a myriad of soil types, two main ones dominate - the gravelly, limestone slopes that delve down to the valley from the plateau and the valley itself which is comprised of limestone, gravel, clay and sand. Despite St Emilion's popularity today, it was not until the 1980s to early 1990s that attention was brought to this region. Robert Parker, the famous wine critic, began reviewing their Merlot-dominated wines and giving them hefty scores. The rest is history as they say. Similar to the Médoc, there is a classification system in place which dates from 1955 and outlines several levels of quality. These include its regional appellation of St Emilion, St Emilion Grand Cru, St Emilion Grand Cru Classé and St Emilion Premier Grand Cru Classé, which is further divided into "A" (Ausone and Cheval Blanc) and "B" (including Angélus, Canon, Figeac and a handful of others). To ensure better accuracy, the classification is redone every 10 years enabling certain châteaux to be upgraded or downgraded depending on on the quality of their more recent vintages.