Is Château Ausone 1999 the wine of the vintage?

Château Ausone is one of Bordeaux's elite producers – comparable to the Médoc greats of Latour and Mouton Rothschild. Ausone’s wines are unsurprisingly amongst the most sought after in the world of which only around 2,000 cases are produced each year.

Ausone's 1999 Bordeaux was one of the truly great wines of a good Bordeaux vintage – a true tour de force – and a rare wine of class and longevity that fully justifies its price premium.

“Dense purple color, a compelling bouquet of licorice, minerals, black and blueberry liqueur, extraordinary delineation, high tannin, superb extract, and phenomenal richness all are the stuff of a legend. This wine seems impossible to have emerged from a vintage like 1999. Proprietor Alain Vauthier produced only 20,000 bottles because he eliminated one-fourth of the tiny crop. The result is out-and-out fabulous.” eRobertparker.com