La Chapelle d'Ausone - 2011 - La Chapelle d'Ausone - 750 ml.

The second wine of Ausone. This is another wine with a strong match-sticky notes of reduction here, but with time I can sense the fresh and dark fruit that lies behind it. The fruit character on the palate is polished, savoury, rich, and dark, the tannins really rather firm and cottony, but the acidity is fine. Rich and stylish. Again, a difficult wine to judge with that reduction but the substance and elements beneath are good.