Tasting Notes
Robert Parker 92
Served blind at the Southwold 2009 tasting. The Chapelle d’Ausone ’09 has a very powerful, very alcoholic bouquet that is heady and is lacking the finesse of its peers. The palate is medium-bodied with succulent tannins. Quite beefy and structured ” there is a lot of extraction here and it needs more composure and sophistication on the finish. Trying too hard perhaps? I think this just needs five or six years to “calm downâ€. Tasted January 2013.
Vinous 91
Bright ruby. Cool, complex aromas of cassis, licorice, Thai basil, fresh herbs, gingerbread and coconutty oak. Bright and firm, even a bit youthfully ungiving, but juicy and penetrating, with an exhilarating note of Asian spices. Very tight and firm on the long, vibrant back end. A second wine with a very strong personality of its own.