Chateau Ausone 2022

✦ The Landscape & Terroir
Bordeaux is a landscape of rivers, gravel, clay and restrained maritime light. The Gironde and its tributaries moderate the climate, while the soils shape the wine’s structure and longevity. In Saint-Émilion, Bordeaux, France, limestone slopes and clay gives the wine its frame, depth and sense of place.

✦ The Wine & Varieties
2022 Chateau Ausone is made from Merlot and Cabernet Franc. For Hong Kong collectors new to European fine wine, this is a way to understand place through structure: fruit gives pleasure, but terroir gives the wine its shape and memory.

✦ Winemaking Philosophy
The wine reflects small historic estate farming. The cellar work is not about making the loudest wine, but about preserving proportion, texture and the identity of the vineyard. Ageing: French oak ageing.

✦ Taste Profile
Expect dark fruit, refined tannins, cedar spice and a long structured finish that opens slowly in the glass. It is a wine to serve with care, open with time and enjoy as it moves from fruit toward detail.

✦ Why It Matters
2022 Chateau Ausone matters because it carries limestone intensity and rare precision. It belongs in a cellar not only as a luxury bottle, but as a reference point for how origin, vintage and human judgement can meet in one glass.

✦ Key Facts
Grapes: Merlot and Cabernet Franc
Region: Saint-Émilion, Bordeaux, France
Soil: limestone slopes and clay
Farming method: small historic estate farming
Ageing: French oak ageing
Serving temperature: 16–18°C
Ageing potential: 25–50+ years