Château Ausone 2006

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WineMine Description

MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 882; underperforming the average for the sub-region in 2006 which is 889. The average score for Château Ausone is 921, making this a below average effort for the producer.

When people talk about wines from Château Ausone they use words like Fruit, Black, Freshness, Ripe, Sweet, Tannins, Purple, Intense, Oak, Dark, Fruits, Tannin, Acidity, Deep, Flowers. The 2006 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 2006 but no other wine from Château Ausone: Tenacious, Honed, Backbone, Stony, Damson, Bramble, Racy, Classy. The wine has significantly lower levels of alcohol than this producer normally outputs (12.5% vs 12.83%); it has broadly similar levels of alcohol for the region in 2006 (12.5% vs 13.01%). The wine has been ready to drink for 3 years (since 2013) and should be consumed within the next 14 years (by 2030). It normally takes wines from Château Ausone around 11 years to be ready to start drinking, and 26 further years to decline.

It represents good value compared to Château Lafite Rothschild 2005, Château Lafleur 2009, Château Lafite Rothschild 2007, Château Lagrange (St Julien) 2010; but better value alternatives would be Château Léoville-Las Cases 2012, Château Léoville-Las Cases 2011, Château Léoville-Las Cases 2009, Château Cos d’Estournel 2010, Château Lynch-Bages 2012.

Date	Currency	Price
2016-01-16	gbp	902
2016-01-04	gbp	480