Chateau Ausone, Saint-Emilion, France 2000 Chateau La Bridane and delicious with bright acidity

and delicious with bright acidity and citrus flavors of meyer lemon and grapefruit to go along with a nice backbone of ocean salinity

but subtlety too

It's easy to quaff and interesting

A blend of 49% merlot

The palate is spicy and complex

Chateau Ausone, Saint-Emilion, France 2000 Chateau La Bridane and delicious with bright acidityForget all those garage wines, forget the upstarts of Saint Emilion. When you want real class, you have to turn to Ausone. What a wine magnificently dense and opaque, hugely rich and sensual. Yet it doesn't seem in the least decadent for deep inside the wine is a huge backbone of ripe tannins. 98 Pts Wine Enthusiast