TASTING CHÂTEAU AUSONE ST.-EMILION 2019 WITH EDOUARD VAUTHIER

Associate Editor Claire Nesbitt chats with Edouard Vauthier of Chateau Ausone about the 2019 vintage in St. Emilion."The quality of the vintage for me was quite fresh and elegant and it has really, really long length and also the terroir was very well represented," Edouard says. "We didn't really extract that much because the skin was still really pretty thick. After that, the aging process was still the same – 20 months in the barrel."Claire says of the Chapelle d'Ausone St.-Emilion 2019: "It's so aromatic, so beautiful... lots of black fruit and flowers. And it's got this almost slightly sweet fruit, almost like a citrusy orange peel character to it at the end that gives it this freshness, which is really lovely."Edouard says the Chateau Ausone St.-Emilion 2019, meanwhile, represents the "best of the best" of what they have in the cellar.