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Bordeaux | 1 | 96 (DC) |
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£100.00 |
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Decanter (96)Leather, chocolate, toast and soft floral tones on the nose with hints of spice and blueberries. Ripe, round and powerful on the palate, with fleshy tannins that fill and cushion the mouth. Sharper acidity than 2018 or 2019 gives energy and drive. Racy and sophisticated, though still somewhat closed. Blackcurrant, cherry, plum, liquorice and tobacco linger with cinnamon warmth. Textured, vibrant and built for at least 10 more years. |
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Bordeaux | 2 | 96 (DC) |
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£272.42 |
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Decanter (96)Leather, chocolate, toast and soft floral tones on the nose with hints of spice and blueberries. Ripe, round and powerful on the palate, with fleshy tannins that fill and cushion the mouth. Sharper acidity than 2018 or 2019 gives energy and drive. Racy and sophisticated, though still somewhat closed. Blackcurrant, cherry, plum, liquorice and tobacco linger with cinnamon warmth. Textured, vibrant and built for at least 10 more years. |
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Bordeaux | 125 | 96 (DC) |
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£444.49 |
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Decanter (96)Leather, chocolate, toast and soft floral tones on the nose with hints of spice and blueberries. Ripe, round and powerful on the palate, with fleshy tannins that fill and cushion the mouth. Sharper acidity than 2018 or 2019 gives energy and drive. Racy and sophisticated, though still somewhat closed. Blackcurrant, cherry, plum, liquorice and tobacco linger with cinnamon warmth. Textured, vibrant and built for at least 10 more years. |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 93 (JD) |
Inc. VAT
£422.00 |
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Jeb Dunnuck (93)Coming all from limestone soils and equal parts Merlot and Cabernet Franc that was brought up in 50% new French oak, the 2021 Aromes De Pavie sports a solid ruby/plum hue as well as a medium to full-bodied, deep, seamless profile in its riper, mostly red fruits, crushed stone, graphite, and floral-laced aromas and flavors. With beautifully integrated oak, ripe, velvety tannins, and a brilliant finish, this is a legit, serious, gorgeous wine. It's probably the best second wine in the vintage. Drink bottles over the coming 15 years. |
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Bordeaux | 10 | 95-96 (JS) |
Inc. VAT
£427.40 |
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James Suckling (95-96)This is really minerally with salt and dark fruits, such as blackberries and boysenberries. Medium to full body. Layered with fine tannins. Upgrade in quality here. Best ever second wine from Pavie. |
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Bordeaux | 3 | - |
Inc. VAT
£311.00 |
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Bordeaux | 1 | - |
Inc. VAT
£2,220.80 |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 82 (WA) |
Inc. VAT
£5,662.01 |
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Wine Advocate (82)This medium ruby wine remains closed, but exhibits adequate ripeness of fruit. However, the hard tannins are cause for concern. The 1981 Ausone is a medium-weight wine, with good concentration, but I believe it will always be an austere, tough-textured, charmless wine. It still needs 10 years to soften and develop. Anticipated maturity: Now-2010. Last tasted, 1/90. |
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Bordeaux | 3 | 82 (WA) |
Inc. VAT
£482.40 |
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Wine Advocate (82)This medium ruby wine remains closed, but exhibits adequate ripeness of fruit. However, the hard tannins are cause for concern. The 1981 Ausone is a medium-weight wine, with good concentration, but I believe it will always be an austere, tough-textured, charmless wine. It still needs 10 years to soften and develop. Anticipated maturity: Now-2010. Last tasted, 1/90. |
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Bordeaux | 1 | - |
Inc. VAT
£396.53 |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 98+ (WA) |
Inc. VAT
£10,846.60 |
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Wine Advocate (98+)Two bottles were badly corked, which is certainly a scary situation for a wine where only 1,000 or so cases were produced. However, a third bottle was magical and just short of perfection. Its saturated purple color was followed by a surprisingly more evolved and open wine than I had written in my tasting note in 2003, where I predicted maturity between 2020 and 2075. This wine displays wonderful, sweet tannin and a big, sweet kiss of truffle, crushed rock, blueberry, blackberry, and licorice. Extremely rich, full-bodied, with astonishing power, precision, and delicacy, this is a sumptuous wine that should age well for 50-60 years, but in the case of the one bottle out of three that was not corked, it seemed far more evolved and forward than I suggested in my write-up in 2003. |
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Bordeaux | 6 | 98+ (WA) |
Inc. VAT
£5,983.69 |
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Wine Advocate (98+)Two bottles were badly corked, which is certainly a scary situation for a wine where only 1,000 or so cases were produced. However, a third bottle was magical and just short of perfection. Its saturated purple color was followed by a surprisingly more evolved and open wine than I had written in my tasting note in 2003, where I predicted maturity between 2020 and 2075. This wine displays wonderful, sweet tannin and a big, sweet kiss of truffle, crushed rock, blueberry, blackberry, and licorice. Extremely rich, full-bodied, with astonishing power, precision, and delicacy, this is a sumptuous wine that should age well for 50-60 years, but in the case of the one bottle out of three that was not corked, it seemed far more evolved and forward than I suggested in my write-up in 2003. |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 100 (WA) |
Inc. VAT
£6,986.64 |
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Wine Advocate (100)Amazing! The limestone soils of Ausone appear to have been the perfect foil for resisting the extreme heat and drought of June, July and August, 2003. This black/purple-colored effort boasts a glorious nose of violets, truffles, lead pencil shavings, blueberry and blackberry liqueur. Full-bodied with staggering concentration, a voluptuous texture, low acidity and well-integrated, melted tannins, this deep, multidimensional, profound Bordeaux is beginning to drink exceptionally well. It should continue to do so for another two decades or more. |
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Bordeaux | 2 | 100 (WI) |
Inc. VAT
£6,543.95 |
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The Wine Independent (100)The 2005 Ausone is a blend of 55% Cabernet Franc and 45% Merlot. Deep garnet-brick in color, it needs a lot of swirling to coax out the most evocative perfume of Morello cherries, raspberry preserves, redcurrant jelly, and red roses with hints of aniseed, forest floor, truffles, and iron ore. Medium to full-bodied, it has a very firm, grainy texture and an incredibly lively backbone. So, so beautifully perfumed, it finishes incredibly long and mineral-laced. This undoubtedly already offers a WOW experience, but I would give it another 5-7 years in bottle to truly let that perfume emerge, then drink it over the following 40-50-years+. Located on the limestone plateau over the town of Saint Emilion, it covers only 17 acres and has been owned exclusively by the Vauthiers (Alain) since the mid-1990s. It is usually composed of 50-60% Cabernet Franc with Merlot making up the rest of the blend. |
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Bordeaux | 6 | 97 (VN (ST)) |
Inc. VAT
£3,620.52 |
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Vinous - Stephen Tanzer (97)Bright medium ruby. Brooding, pure aromas of blackberry, blueberry, boysenberry, espresso and minerals. Wonderfully dense yet weightless, with a penetrating calcaire energy to its sappy black fruit and mineral flavors. This has filled out impressively since its early days in barrel but is still just at the beginning of its evolution. The slowly mounting, compellingly long finish saturates the palate with flavor, and the substantial tannins are amazingly sweet and fine-grained. My early candidate for wine of the vintage: this fills the mouth with perfume but its fruit of steel suggests that it will last a very long time. I won't be around to drink this beauty at its peak. |
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Bordeaux | 4 | 98.3 |
Inc. VAT
£3,195.49 |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 100 (JA) |
Inc. VAT
£2,418.78 |
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Jane Anson Inside Bordeaux (100)Ausone captures the exuberance and joy of 2009 without ever putting a step over the line - get ready to reach for the superlatives. Still young at 15 years old, but all the finesse and nuance is in place, with huge depths to the berry fruit, plenty of anis and fennel spice, saffron and pumice stone, by turns soft then steely. Hard to think of a better St Emilion 2009, and I would bet on it continuing to deliver huge pleasure over the decades to come. Winemaker/cellar master Philippe Baillarguet, overseen by Pauline Vauthier and father Alain, 100% new oak for ageing. |
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Bordeaux | 9 | 100 (JA) |
Inc. VAT
£4,772.75 |
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Jane Anson Inside Bordeaux (100)Ausone captures the exuberance and joy of 2009 without ever putting a step over the line - get ready to reach for the superlatives. Still young at 15 years old, but all the finesse and nuance is in place, with huge depths to the berry fruit, plenty of anis and fennel spice, saffron and pumice stone, by turns soft then steely. Hard to think of a better St Emilion 2009, and I would bet on it continuing to deliver huge pleasure over the decades to come. Winemaker/cellar master Philippe Baillarguet, overseen by Pauline Vauthier and father Alain, 100% new oak for ageing. |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 100 (FS) |
Inc. VAT
£2,367.59 |
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Falstaff (100)Dark ruby with purple reflections and a delicate watery rim. A multi-faceted bouquet of wild berry confit underlaid with delicate smoky-spice, savory notes of fine oak and subtle nougat with a dark minerality. The complex palate is full-bodied with a fruity texture, firm, well-integrated tannins, fine acidity, salinity and delicate chocolate and ripe black cherry notes on a finish which has excellent length. This is at the beginning of a glorious career. But at the moment, this wine gives only a vague hint of what it will show in ten years and more, patience is absolutely required here. (Store/Drink +50). |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 100 (FS) |
Inc. VAT
£4,217.98 |
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Falstaff (100)Dark ruby with purple reflections and a delicate watery rim. A multi-faceted bouquet of wild berry confit underlaid with delicate smoky-spice, savory notes of fine oak and subtle nougat with a dark minerality. The complex palate is full-bodied with a fruity texture, firm, well-integrated tannins, fine acidity, salinity and delicate chocolate and ripe black cherry notes on a finish which has excellent length. This is at the beginning of a glorious career. But at the moment, this wine gives only a vague hint of what it will show in ten years and more, patience is absolutely required here. (Store/Drink +50). |
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Bordeaux | 6 | 95+ (WA) |
Inc. VAT
£3,176.52 |
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Wine Advocate (95+)Its bigger sibling, the 2011 Ausone increases the level of intensity, elegance, complexity, richness and length. Nearly a mirror image of the La Chapelle, just with more going on, the Ausone boasts a more saturated purple color, and the wine has everything in large, intense proportions. The finesse and delicacy of all its components are what make it such a remarkable wine. The quality of the tannins and purity of the fruit make this another legendary effort that should age for 30-40 years. |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 96 (DC) |
In Bond
£80.00 |
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Decanter (96)Leather, chocolate, toast and soft floral tones on the nose with hints of spice and blueberries. Ripe, round and powerful on the palate, with fleshy tannins that fill and cushion the mouth. Sharper acidity than 2018 or 2019 gives energy and drive. Racy and sophisticated, though still somewhat closed. Blackcurrant, cherry, plum, liquorice and tobacco linger with cinnamon warmth. Textured, vibrant and built for at least 10 more years. |
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Bordeaux | 2 | 96 (DC) |
In Bond
£219.00 |
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Decanter (96)Leather, chocolate, toast and soft floral tones on the nose with hints of spice and blueberries. Ripe, round and powerful on the palate, with fleshy tannins that fill and cushion the mouth. Sharper acidity than 2018 or 2019 gives energy and drive. Racy and sophisticated, though still somewhat closed. Blackcurrant, cherry, plum, liquorice and tobacco linger with cinnamon warmth. Textured, vibrant and built for at least 10 more years. |
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Bordeaux | 125 | 96 (DC) |
In Bond
£352.50 |
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Decanter (96)Leather, chocolate, toast and soft floral tones on the nose with hints of spice and blueberries. Ripe, round and powerful on the palate, with fleshy tannins that fill and cushion the mouth. Sharper acidity than 2018 or 2019 gives energy and drive. Racy and sophisticated, though still somewhat closed. Blackcurrant, cherry, plum, liquorice and tobacco linger with cinnamon warmth. Textured, vibrant and built for at least 10 more years. |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 93 (JD) |
In Bond
£331.00 |
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Jeb Dunnuck (93)Coming all from limestone soils and equal parts Merlot and Cabernet Franc that was brought up in 50% new French oak, the 2021 Aromes De Pavie sports a solid ruby/plum hue as well as a medium to full-bodied, deep, seamless profile in its riper, mostly red fruits, crushed stone, graphite, and floral-laced aromas and flavors. With beautifully integrated oak, ripe, velvety tannins, and a brilliant finish, this is a legit, serious, gorgeous wine. It's probably the best second wine in the vintage. Drink bottles over the coming 15 years. |
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Bordeaux | 10 | 95-96 (JS) |
In Bond
£335.50 |
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James Suckling (95-96)This is really minerally with salt and dark fruits, such as blackberries and boysenberries. Medium to full body. Layered with fine tannins. Upgrade in quality here. Best ever second wine from Pavie. |
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Bordeaux | 3 | - |
In Bond
£238.50 |
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Bordeaux | 1 | - |
In Bond
£1,830.00 |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 82 (WA) |
Inc. VAT
£5,612.40 |
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Wine Advocate (82)This medium ruby wine remains closed, but exhibits adequate ripeness of fruit. However, the hard tannins are cause for concern. The 1981 Ausone is a medium-weight wine, with good concentration, but I believe it will always be an austere, tough-textured, charmless wine. It still needs 10 years to soften and develop. Anticipated maturity: Now-2010. Last tasted, 1/90. |
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Bordeaux | 3 | 82 (WA) |
Inc. VAT
£482.40 |
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Wine Advocate (82)This medium ruby wine remains closed, but exhibits adequate ripeness of fruit. However, the hard tannins are cause for concern. The 1981 Ausone is a medium-weight wine, with good concentration, but I believe it will always be an austere, tough-textured, charmless wine. It still needs 10 years to soften and develop. Anticipated maturity: Now-2010. Last tasted, 1/90. |
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Bordeaux | 1 | - |
In Bond
£327.00 |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 98+ (WA) |
In Bond
£9,003.00 |
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Wine Advocate (98+)Two bottles were badly corked, which is certainly a scary situation for a wine where only 1,000 or so cases were produced. However, a third bottle was magical and just short of perfection. Its saturated purple color was followed by a surprisingly more evolved and open wine than I had written in my tasting note in 2003, where I predicted maturity between 2020 and 2075. This wine displays wonderful, sweet tannin and a big, sweet kiss of truffle, crushed rock, blueberry, blackberry, and licorice. Extremely rich, full-bodied, with astonishing power, precision, and delicacy, this is a sumptuous wine that should age well for 50-60 years, but in the case of the one bottle out of three that was not corked, it seemed far more evolved and forward than I suggested in my write-up in 2003. |
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Bordeaux | 6 | 98+ (WA) |
In Bond
£4,968.50 |
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Wine Advocate (98+)Two bottles were badly corked, which is certainly a scary situation for a wine where only 1,000 or so cases were produced. However, a third bottle was magical and just short of perfection. Its saturated purple color was followed by a surprisingly more evolved and open wine than I had written in my tasting note in 2003, where I predicted maturity between 2020 and 2075. This wine displays wonderful, sweet tannin and a big, sweet kiss of truffle, crushed rock, blueberry, blackberry, and licorice. Extremely rich, full-bodied, with astonishing power, precision, and delicacy, this is a sumptuous wine that should age well for 50-60 years, but in the case of the one bottle out of three that was not corked, it seemed far more evolved and forward than I suggested in my write-up in 2003. |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 100 (WA) |
In Bond
£5,785.00 |
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Wine Advocate (100)Amazing! The limestone soils of Ausone appear to have been the perfect foil for resisting the extreme heat and drought of June, July and August, 2003. This black/purple-colored effort boasts a glorious nose of violets, truffles, lead pencil shavings, blueberry and blackberry liqueur. Full-bodied with staggering concentration, a voluptuous texture, low acidity and well-integrated, melted tannins, this deep, multidimensional, profound Bordeaux is beginning to drink exceptionally well. It should continue to do so for another two decades or more. |
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Bordeaux | 2 | 100 (WI) |
In Bond
£5,434.00 |
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The Wine Independent (100)The 2005 Ausone is a blend of 55% Cabernet Franc and 45% Merlot. Deep garnet-brick in color, it needs a lot of swirling to coax out the most evocative perfume of Morello cherries, raspberry preserves, redcurrant jelly, and red roses with hints of aniseed, forest floor, truffles, and iron ore. Medium to full-bodied, it has a very firm, grainy texture and an incredibly lively backbone. So, so beautifully perfumed, it finishes incredibly long and mineral-laced. This undoubtedly already offers a WOW experience, but I would give it another 5-7 years in bottle to truly let that perfume emerge, then drink it over the following 40-50-years+. Located on the limestone plateau over the town of Saint Emilion, it covers only 17 acres and has been owned exclusively by the Vauthiers (Alain) since the mid-1990s. It is usually composed of 50-60% Cabernet Franc with Merlot making up the rest of the blend. |
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Bordeaux | 6 | 97 (VN (ST)) |
In Bond
£2,998.50 |
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Vinous - Stephen Tanzer (97)Bright medium ruby. Brooding, pure aromas of blackberry, blueberry, boysenberry, espresso and minerals. Wonderfully dense yet weightless, with a penetrating calcaire energy to its sappy black fruit and mineral flavors. This has filled out impressively since its early days in barrel but is still just at the beginning of its evolution. The slowly mounting, compellingly long finish saturates the palate with flavor, and the substantial tannins are amazingly sweet and fine-grained. My early candidate for wine of the vintage: this fills the mouth with perfume but its fruit of steel suggests that it will last a very long time. I won't be around to drink this beauty at its peak. |
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Bordeaux | 4 | 98.3 |
In Bond
£2,645.00 |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 100 (JA) |
In Bond
£2,006.00 |
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Jane Anson Inside Bordeaux (100)Ausone captures the exuberance and joy of 2009 without ever putting a step over the line - get ready to reach for the superlatives. Still young at 15 years old, but all the finesse and nuance is in place, with huge depths to the berry fruit, plenty of anis and fennel spice, saffron and pumice stone, by turns soft then steely. Hard to think of a better St Emilion 2009, and I would bet on it continuing to deliver huge pleasure over the decades to come. Winemaker/cellar master Philippe Baillarguet, overseen by Pauline Vauthier and father Alain, 100% new oak for ageing. |
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Bordeaux | 9 | 100 (JA) |
In Bond
£3,958.00 |
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Jane Anson Inside Bordeaux (100)Ausone captures the exuberance and joy of 2009 without ever putting a step over the line - get ready to reach for the superlatives. Still young at 15 years old, but all the finesse and nuance is in place, with huge depths to the berry fruit, plenty of anis and fennel spice, saffron and pumice stone, by turns soft then steely. Hard to think of a better St Emilion 2009, and I would bet on it continuing to deliver huge pleasure over the decades to come. Winemaker/cellar master Philippe Baillarguet, overseen by Pauline Vauthier and father Alain, 100% new oak for ageing. |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 100 (FS) |
In Bond
£1,963.00 |
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Falstaff (100)Dark ruby with purple reflections and a delicate watery rim. A multi-faceted bouquet of wild berry confit underlaid with delicate smoky-spice, savory notes of fine oak and subtle nougat with a dark minerality. The complex palate is full-bodied with a fruity texture, firm, well-integrated tannins, fine acidity, salinity and delicate chocolate and ripe black cherry notes on a finish which has excellent length. This is at the beginning of a glorious career. But at the moment, this wine gives only a vague hint of what it will show in ten years and more, patience is absolutely required here. (Store/Drink +50). |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 100 (FS) |
In Bond
£3,495.00 |
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Falstaff (100)Dark ruby with purple reflections and a delicate watery rim. A multi-faceted bouquet of wild berry confit underlaid with delicate smoky-spice, savory notes of fine oak and subtle nougat with a dark minerality. The complex palate is full-bodied with a fruity texture, firm, well-integrated tannins, fine acidity, salinity and delicate chocolate and ripe black cherry notes on a finish which has excellent length. This is at the beginning of a glorious career. But at the moment, this wine gives only a vague hint of what it will show in ten years and more, patience is absolutely required here. (Store/Drink +50). |
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Bordeaux | 6 | 95+ (WA) |
In Bond
£2,628.50 |
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Wine Advocate (95+)Its bigger sibling, the 2011 Ausone increases the level of intensity, elegance, complexity, richness and length. Nearly a mirror image of the La Chapelle, just with more going on, the Ausone boasts a more saturated purple color, and the wine has everything in large, intense proportions. The finesse and delicacy of all its components are what make it such a remarkable wine. The quality of the tannins and purity of the fruit make this another legendary effort that should age for 30-40 years. |
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Bordeaux has some of the most premium wines in the world with its famous First Growths heralded as far back as Jefferson. However it must be noted that Bordeaux also offers an excellent range, with plenty of great value wines available. Bordeaux has 54 different appellations with varying soil types that give different styles. It has thousands of chateaux, from the small and humble to the overwhelmingly magnificent.
