mouth-coating tannins provide backbone and noteworthy aging potential to this extremely elegant

saturated dark ruby

This will require the better part of a decade to fully resolve the slightly rustic tannic spine

with subtle aromas of violets

Ausone Vintage:2016 mouth-coating tannins provide backbone andThe 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