Ausone Vintage:2002 Highlights how sure and confident

Highlights how sure and confident was the winemaking at Haut-Bailly ten years on from Bob Wilmers arrival

Not much has changed since then

One day the Lazzarito may challenge the Rocche as Viettis signature Barolo

crushed flowers

flowers and heather honey

Ausone Vintage:2002 Highlights how sure and confidentThe 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