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Wine for sale: Chateau 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.

2014
300
2014
450
2008
100 (current price)
2021
800
2020
780
2017
1,100
2014
360 (current price)
2013
420
1999
370 (starting price)
1999
350 (starting price)
1998
1,800
1998
450 (starting price)
1997
230 (starting price)
1996
2,400
1996
2,400
1995
324 (current price)
1993
396 (starting price)
1990
270 (current price)
1989
280 (current price)
1989
270 (current price)
1983
243 (current price)
1970
420 (starting price)
1951
488 (current price)
1951
224 (current price)
1951
448 (starting price)
Price estimate for Chateau Ausone