Ausone's 1949 was the lightest wine in this particular flight, with a medium garnet color revealing considerable rust at the edge. Some attractive mineral and black fruit aromas emerge from what is otherwise an austere, lean, light to medium-bodied, high acid wine - a textbook Ausone - if that is what readers find enticing.The notes for this wine are taken from the description of Series II - Flight C of the 1995 tasting conducted in Munich by Helga and Hardy Rodenstock. Many years after the tasting from which this note derives allegations were made concerning the authenticity of old and rare bottles of wine sold by Hardy Rodenstock to collectors around the world. The matter has been the subject of numerous articles, litigation and at least one book. Mr. Parker believes that the wines served to him at this tasting were authentic so this note and the others from that specific tasting continue to be posted on eRobertParker.com.

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