Ausone other_regions This is quite an elegant

This is quite an elegant wine with lovely harmony and strikingly good balance

This is also lovely though it too needs to add depth

well-detailed and relatively sleek medium-bodied flavors that display focused power on the sneaky long and markedly firm finale

even tannins

earthy black fruit with good acidity

Ausone other_regions This is quite an elegantThe 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