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Chapelle d'Ausone Second vin 2005

  • Red fruit
  • Gastronomic wine
  • Color: Red
  • 13.50% 
  • 3L
  • Intensity
  • Classic

Distinction et élégance définissent ce vin libournais que nous vous recommandons de conserver en cave quelques années. More info

  • Quantity: 2 Magnums
  • Level: 2 into-neck
  • Label: 2 good appearance
  • Origin: Private individual
  • Recoverable VAT: No
  • Country/Region: Bordeaux
  • Appellation/Wine: Saint-Émilion Grand Cru
  • Classification: Second vin
  • Producer/Owner: Alain et Catherine Vauthier
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Chapelle d'Ausone Second vin serve at a temperature of 16°C. It will pair perfectly with the following dishes: Civet de marcassin, Grive aux raisins, Filet de boeuf rôti.

Peak: Drink until 2030

  • Vintage score: 19/20
  • Lot presentation
    Chapelle d'Ausone Second vin

    The wine

    The Chapelle d'Ausone shareswith the first wine of the domain a legendary finesse. Less concentrated, La Chapelle d'Ausone is among the most dinstinguous wines of the Libourne region. To be tasted after 5 to 10 years.

    Information about domain 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.

    Detailed characteristics

    • Quantity: 2 Magnums
    • Level: 2 into-neck
    • Label: 2 good appearance
    • Origin: Private individual
    • Type of cellar: Air-conditioned underground cellar
    • Recoverable VAT: No
    • Original Wooden Case / Original Case: No
    • French customs seal: yes
    • Alcohol percentage: 13.50 %
    • Country/Region: Bordeaux
    • Appellation/Wine: Saint-Émilion Grand Cru
    • Classification: Second vin
    • Producer/Owner: Alain et Catherine Vauthier
    • Vintage: 2005
    • Color: Red
    • Peak: Drink until 2030
    • Service temperature: 16°
    • Viticulture: Conventional 
    • Intensity: Classic
    • Dominant aroma: Red fruit
    • Tasting occasion: Gastronomic wine
    • Grape variety: 50% Merlot, 50% Cabernet franc

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