Château Ausone

Château Ausone, St Emilion, 2024

Name: Château Ausone, St Emilion
Brand: Château Ausone
Price: 1852 GBP

96/100

Inside Bordeaux

95-97/100

The Wine Independent

93-95/100

Vinous

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all 2022 2023 2024

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2024
3x75cl
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£926.00
2024
6x75cl
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£1,842.00
2024
3x1.5L
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£1,852.00
2024
1x3L
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£1,273.00
2024
1x6L
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£2,516.00

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Captivating with a gorgeous wild perfume, the Ausone 2024 boasts an array of sauvage flowers and berry fruits. The fruit on the palate is pure and seductive, unfolding in waves of intricate flavourand complex minerality from its superb limestone terroir. Notes of pure cassis, mulberry, raspberry, and griotte are complemented by graphite, garrigue, bergamot, and sandalwood. Floral notes of peonies and iris add to its intrigue. Vibrant and pure, this possesses a velvety texture nuanced with sweet, exotic spice and hints of camphor mingled with pencil shavings, followed by a prolonged and reverberating finish provided by the superb tannic architecture. A wine of nerve and energy. Wonderful.

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We have created a system where every case is independent, thereby ensuring a trail of ownership and peace of mind for every customer.

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Justerinis ensures that every case of wine stored with Cellarers (Wines) Ltd has a unique identifier and customer’s name, almost unheard of in the industry as it is expensive to administer. These details are printed and placed on every case which is logged and recorded under your account name and kept in the world’s most renowned storage facility, Octavian Corsham.

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Critic Reviews

95-97/100

Lisa Perrotti-Brown,

The Wine Independent

Deep garnet-purple colored. Soars out of the glass with fragrant notes of black cherries, black raspberries, violets, and sassafras, with touches of forest floor and fragrant soils. The medium-bodied palate is wonderfully silky with seamless freshness supporting the delicate red berry and floral layers, finishing long and perfumed. Stunning.

drinking window 2027 - 2047

date of review 05/2025

93-95/100

Neal Martin,

Vinous

The 2024 Ausone was picked between September 30 and October 5. It aged for 20 months in new French oak from 5 cooperages with malo in barrel as usual. There is slightly less Merlot in the blend due to mildew and <em>coulure</em> during the season. It has a very pure nose with black cherry, wild strawberry and a touch of cracked black pepper in the background. It just misses some of the profound complexity that a top Ausone can deliver. The palate is lovely, though, one of the most velvety 2024s that I tasted out of barrel. This is very harmonious with a focused and sustained finish. Whilst it doesn't quite have the horsepower or sheer ambition of a top-drawer Ausone, this is a success for the vintage simply because it is endowed with greater substance and persistence. There's presence here.

drinking window 2029 - 2055

date of review 05/2025

96/100

Jane Anson,

Inside Bordeaux

Deep ruby in colour, this delivers texture and flavoursome sappy fruits, clear winemaking skill that maintains estate signature. You feel the tightrope walk of minerality and fruit, and as in 2021 Ausone is at the very top of what was possible in the vintage. Cassis bud, peony, violet, cloves, jasmine flowers, chamomile, subtle complexity and layers that expand and build through the palate. The successful construction of this wine highlights what was so challeging to fully achieve with so many others in the vintage. Harvest 30 September 5 October, Philippe Baillarguet cellar master. 100% new oak.

drinking window 2032 - 2046

date of review 04/2025

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This product may contain sulphites. Full allergen information is available upon request, please call our Customer Relations Team on +44 (0)20 7484 6430.