Chateau Ausone 1976
Chateau Ausone 1976
In Bond, excludes duty and VAT · 1x75cl
In bond price shown. Duty and VAT quoted on enquiry · 1x75cl
6 bottles available
From one of our suppliers. Usually ready 6 to 8 weeks after your order is confirmed.
UK duty is charged on a wine's alcohol strength (ABV). Until we have confirmed the ABV of this wine we cannot take a duty-paid order, so a duty-paid basket is sent to us as an enquiry. We reply with a delivered price including duty and VAT. Nothing is charged until you accept it.
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One bottle of Chateau Ausone 1976, offered In Bond from one of our suppliers, usually ready 6 to 8 weeks after your order is confirmed. Price per bottle, In Bond UK.
Duty and VAT are payable only if you later withdraw the wine from bond. Transfers between bonded accounts are arranged by our team after purchase.
Price per bottle £370.00 In Bond, excludes duty and VATIn bond price. Duty and VAT quoted on enquiry
6 available, 1x75cl
Offered in bond. Duty and VAT are not included and become payable only if the wine is withdrawn from bond. Transfers between bonded accounts are arranged by our team after purchase.
UK duty is charged on a wine's alcohol strength (ABV). Until we have confirmed the ABV of this wine we cannot take a duty-paid order, so a duty-paid basket is sent to us as an enquiry. We reply with a delivered price including duty and VAT.
This wine comes from one of our suppliers and is usually ready 6 to 8 weeks after your order is confirmed.
Offered subject to availability. We confirm every wine with the supplier before your order is finalised, and contact you the same working day if anything has changed.
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- Format
- 1x75cl
- Vintage
- 1976
- Producer
- Chateau Ausone
- Origin
- Saint-Émilion, France
- Type
- Red
- Duty status
- In Bond
- Availability
- From our supplier, 6 to 8 weeks
What the critics say
93 VMVinous, Neal Martin, 01-03-2018
The 1976 Ausone has always been held up as one of the few successes of the decade for the estate. Bottles are now not easy to find. I remember the one example opened at The Arches possessing engaging Moroccan spice and boot polish on the nose, quite ripe with gamey Damon fruit. The palate is balanced and demonstrates much more ripeness than other vintages from the 1970s with firm tannic structure, piquant red fruit tinged with brown sugar towards the sustained finish. I suspect that in 2018 bottles will be more variable but those of sound provenance will continue to offer pleasure. Tasted at a private dinner in London.
Drink 2018 to 2032
92 WAWine Advocate, Robert Parker, 01-01-2003
Considerable amber at the edge is evident in this dark garnet-colored wine. With a big nose of sweet maple syrup intermixed with foresty notes, plum, fig, and currants, it is sweeter and riper than its more famous sibling, the 1975. In the mouth, the wine shows some hard edges and angularity, which is so typical of Ausone, but there is a lot of character and a concentrated, medium-bodied mid-palate. The finish is paradoxically both sweet and sour, with ripeness and glycerin, but at the same time, high tannin. Seemingly at a plateau of maturity, this wine could easily hang at this level for decades. Anticipated maturity: Now-2020. Last tasted, 1/02.
Drink 2003 to 2020
Scores supplied through Liv-ex
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