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Auction: SFW03 - An Evening of Exceptional Wines
Lot: 40

Château Ausone 2000
Saint-Emilion, 1er Grand Cru Classé (A)

98+/100 points Robert Parker, The Wine Advocate #189 June 2010

Lying in a private temperature-controlled cellar in Singapore
12 bottles duty paid in original wooden case

Tasting Note: "Two bottles were badly corked, which is certainly a scary situation for a wine where only 1,000 or so cases were produced. However, a third bottle was magical and just short of perfection. Its saturated purple color was followed by a surprisingly more evolved and open wine than I had written in my tasting note in 2003, where I predicted maturity between 2020 and 2075. This wine displays wonderful, sweet tannin and a big, sweet kiss of truffle, crushed rock, blueberry, blackberry, and licorice. Extremely rich, full-bodied, with astonishing power, precision, and delicacy, this is a sumptuous wine that should age well for 50-60 years, but in the case of the one bottle out of three that was not corked, it seemed far more evolved and forward than I suggested in my write-up in 2003."

Estimate
SG$22,000 to SG$24,000