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AURAGE16
L'Aurage 2016
AURAGE16
L'Aurage 2016

L’Aurage 2016

€47.76

Highly pleasurable Bordeaux made on the edge of Saint-Emilion. Ripe and oaky on paper, but in practice, these wines are delicate, linear and full of back-end lift. Hedonistic stuff, but elegantly so.

Jancisrobinson.com (15/11/2017):

Barrel sample although the blend has been made as they do this quite early on.
“Dark crimson. Dark and charry on the nose with spice and vanilla but the sweet cassis fruit still shines and they are totally entangled, and even a touch floral, and a very strong oak charry toast on the palate. Plenty of spice but you can see the dark fruit. Clearly embryonic but you can see the depth and potential. Drink 2020-2029” (JH)

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90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc hand-harvested at maximum ripeness, vinified in traditional concrete vats, and aged in 80% new French oak barrels.

Domaine de l’Aurage / Louis Mitjavile

For fans of voluptuous but elegant Bordeaux, the name ‘Mitjavile’ has a special kind of aura. Since the seventies, Francois Mitjavile has built a fanatic fanbase for his garagiste-quantity wines from his Right Bank estates Chateau Tertre Roteboeuf, Roc de Cambes, and Domaine de Cambes. And having been raised at the Grand Cru Tertre Roteboeuf, it is no surprise that Francois’ son Louis wanted to make a name for himself as well. This is why in 2007, after an extensive career as a winemaker at other estates, he acquired the small Domaine de l’Aurage in Cotes de Castillon. L’Aurage is situated at a high altitude right at the border of Saint-Emilion, with which it shares its argil-calcaire terroir.

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