2020 Chateau Ausone Saint Emilion Germany It marries the fruit intensity

It marries the fruit intensity of a warm year with the driving energy of a cool year

This polished

the deep garnet-purple colored 2018 Ormes de Pez comes tearing out of the glass with rambunctious notes of stewed black cherries

Our notes: this is fabulous

and you can feel the tannins from mid-palate through the finish

2020 Chateau Ausone Saint Emilion Germany It marries the fruit intensity99 points, Decanter "This is powerful and blows away much of the competition with its depth and layers. This needs you to pull up a chair, take a beat, and let the flavours unroll. There is so much density to the blueberry, bilberry and smoked raspberry fruits that they start out knitted down, then as the oxygen opens them up the body of the wine widens and becomes fleshier and creamier, adding chocolate and mocha notes. The limestone scrape is there