Ausone Vintage:2002 crushed flowers

crushed flowers

Highlights how sure and confident was the winemaking at Haut-Bailly ten years on from Bob Wilmers arrival

Upon my arrival at the Bodega in May 2010

A creature of its vintage

Ausone Vintage:2002 crushed flowersThe 1990 Ausone is a vintage that I have tasted half a dozen times, waxing lyrical when I first tasted it way back in 2000, but then my sentiments cooling off with each encounter. It has an exotic bouquet that articulates the growing season more than the terroir camphor and eucalyptus, quite heady and showy (some might say vulgar but that would be too pejorative.) There is a smear of chocolate on the entry, moderate acidity, fleshy and ripe but