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Wine for sale: Château Ausone

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Château Ausone

It is said that a wine always resembles its owner. This is certainly true at Ausone, where the excellence of the wines is reflected in the rigorous, inexhaustible care applied at every stage of their production by Alain Vauthier, who was co-director of the property for many years and became the owner in 1997. The origin of this wine's name has never been established, but there is every reason to believe that it was named in honour of the Latin poet Ausone, a former inhabitant of the region and a great wine lover. With just seven hectares, Ausone is the only human-scale Bordeaux Premier Cru Classé; some of its plots benefit from the presence of an underlying porous rock, in close contact with the vines' shallow roots, which absorbs any excess water and then restores it during hot, dry summers. It was for this reason that Ausone escaped unharmed from the frost in 1956 that destroyed 80% of the Gironde's vines; and as a result, is one of the rare Bordeaux vineyards to contain vines that are more than half a century old. After a period of middling quality, due to some confusion as to the wine's direction, the arrival of Alain Vauthier in 1974 signalled a return to excellence. As for Chapelle d'Ausone, it is usually of very high quality, and must be included in the unfortunately short list of great second wines.

2022
220
3 days 11 hours
2021
600(starting price)
10 days 11 hours
2020
322(current price)
2014
390
2022
890
10 days 11 hours
2021
1,000(starting price)
2021
780
3 days 11 hours
2021
1,200(starting price)
2020
750
3 days 11 hours
2020
1,500(starting price)
3 days 11 hours
2020
1,410(starting price)
10 days 11 hours
2020
1,350(starting price)
3 days 11 hours
2020
2,333(starting price)
2019
680
3 days 11 hours
2019
2,760(starting price)
2012
1,200
3 days 10 hours
2011
900(starting price)
2006
480
3 days 9 hours
1997
240(current price)
1996
2,280
1996
2,280
10 days 8 hours
1994
230(starting price)
3 days 9 hours
1982
450(starting price)
10 days 7 hours
1981
234(starting price)
10 days 7 hours
1981
234(starting price)
10 days 7 hours
1981
702(starting price)
10 days 7 hours
1981
421(starting price)
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