Philippe Baillarguet, cellar master at Château Ausone, produces this Saint-Émilion Grand Cru from 2 plots covering just over 90 ares on clay-limestone soils fairly typical of the appellation . Merlot dominates the cuvée but not as outrageously as it can in the Right Bank. It represents 70% of the cuvée, with 30% Cabernet Franc, from vines over 40 years old.
The harvest is done by hand and then they are carefully sorted before vinification in temperature-controlled stainless steel vats and aging for 16 to 18 months in new barrels at 60%, the rest of a wine .
The result is a full and fleshy Saint-Émilion Grand Cru , complex and persistent , with dominant fruit and good aging potential, good vintages of more than 10 years. The 2010, with pure fruit and very blackcurrant, caught the attention of Bernard Burtschy.