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Château Mouton Rothschild Premier Grand Cru Classé Pauillac 2017

Reviews

98 -James Suckling -

Extremely perfumed Mouton with currants and crushed berries. Hints of roses and other flowers. Tight and extremely refined with ultra-fine tannins and cool yet rich currant character. The center palate offers sweet cherries and hints of oak. Lightly sweet and sour. Fresh, balsamic note. It firms up at the end. Solid. A blend of 90% cabernet sauvignon, 9% merlot and 1% petit verdot. Try after 2025.

97 -Wine Spectator -

A brick house Cabernet, featuring a thick sheath of warm ganache and smoldering tobacco over a core of well-steeped black currant, black fig and blackberry compote flavors. Cuts a wide and deep trench as it moves along, with loamy, tannic grip for ballast. Retains a well-buried inner purity that should blossom as this mellows in the cellar. Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Petit Verdot. Best from 2025 through 2040.

96+ -Robert Parker's Wine Advocate -

The 2017 Mouton Rothschild is a blend of 90% Cabernet Sauvignon, 9% Merlot and 1% Cabernet Franc. Deep garnet-purple in color, it slowly unfurls to reveal notes of warm black plums, baked black cherries, kirsch and freshly crushed blackcurrants with hints of candied violets, cinnamon toast, Ceylon tea and pencil shavings. Medium-bodied, the palate is charged with amazing energy, featuring dynamic black and red fruits and loads of baking spice and mineral sparks, framed by ripe, fine-grained tannins and finishing long and fragrant. Given the intensity of fruit and structure, while this is a relatively elegant Mouton that will be approachable early on, I don’t see it as being short lived. It should give pleasure for a good 40+ years.

96 -Jeb Dunnuck -

The top 2017 Chateau Mouton Rothschild checks in as 90% Cabernet Sauvignon, 9% Merlot, and 1% Petit Verdot that spent 18 months in new barrels. This rock star of a wine offers stunning notes of chocolately blackcurrants, toasted spice, and espresso roast, as well as loads of classic Pauillac lead pencil shavings and graphite nuances. It's another wine that starts out slowly yet builds incrementally on the palate with full-bodied richness, ripe, polished tannin, no hard edges, and a stunning sense of purity and elegance. Give bottles upwards of a decade and it will evolve for 30 years or more.

96 -Decanter -

95 -Wine Enthusiast -

93+ -Vinous -

The 2017 Mouton Rothschild is a powerful, brooding wine that very much reflects the high percentage of Cabernet Sauvignon in the blend. Not in the mood to show much, the 2017 is also very much closed in on itself. Time in the glass brings out hints of black cherry jam, wild flowers and spice, but that's about it. Readers will have to be patient with the 2017, but I am not sure Mouton will ever be an elegant wine in this vintage. Time will tell.

Technical Details

Blend 90% Cabernet Sauvignon, 9% Merlot, 1% Petit Verdot
Winemaker Philippe Dhalluin
Country France
Region Bordeaux
Sub Region Left Bank
Appellation Pauillac
Vineyard Estate Vineyards of Château Mouton Rothschild
Farming Method Sustainable Practices
Oak 100% new French oak
Fermentation Separated by parcel and gravity-fed into temperature-controlled oak vats for alcoholic fermentation. Malolactic fermentation completed in tank
Aging / Cooperage 18 to 22 months in 100% new French oak
Alcohol 13.5%

Château Mouton Rothschild Premier Grand Cru Classé Pauillac 2017

Name: Château Mouton Rothschild Premier Grand Cru Classé Pauillac 2017
Brand: First Bottle
SKU: 1015012
Price: 529.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Bordeaux Blends | Bordeaux

JS98, WS97, WA96+, JD96, DC96, WE95, VN93+

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Mouton Rothschild has the most extraordinary history of any Bordeaux estate, and arguably the most storied single act of ambition in the region's annals: purchased in 1853 by Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild, classified as a Second Growth in the 1855 system he considered beneath it, and elevated to First Growth only in 1973, the sole estate ever to be promoted within the classification. Baron Philippe de Rothschild's celebrated campaign to achieve that recognition spanned four decades, and his daughter Philippine, and now her children Philippe Sereys de Rothschild, Camille Sereys de Rothschild, and Julien de Beaumarchais de Rothschild, have continued to build upon a legacy that includes 82 hectares of Pauillac's finest gravelly terroir, the collection of artist labels commissioned annually since 1945 from Picasso, Miró, Warhol, Dalí, Bacon, and many others, and some of the most flamboyant and age-worthy red wines on earth.

The 2017, a blend of 90% Cabernet Sauvignon, 9% Merlot, and 1% Petit Verdot, aged 18 months in 100% new French oak, is one of the finest wines of a vintage in which Mouton's proximity to the Gironde estuary protected it from the April frosts that damaged much of the Left Bank. James Suckling awarded 98, Wine Spectator 97, Wine Advocate 96+, Jeb Dunnuck 96, Decanter 96, Wine Enthusiast 95, and Vinous 93+. Chocolatey blackcurrants, toasted spice, espresso roast, lead pencil shavings, and graphite build slowly on the palate with full-bodied richness, ripe and polished tannins, and a stunning sense of purity and elegance that will reward patience of at least a decade and evolve for 30 years or more. A First Growth at this quality level and pricing is genuinely exceptional. Grab yours before it's gone.

About The Producer

Chateau Mouton Rothschild, a Premier Cru Classé from the Bordeaux region and one of the world's greatest wines, is owned by Baroness Philippine de Rothschild. The estate includes 205 acres of vines at Pauillac planted with Cabernet Sauvignon (77%), Merlot (11%), Cabernet Franc (10%) and Petit Verdot (2%). In 1853, Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild bought Chateau Brane-Mouton. In 1922, his great-grandson Baron Philippe de Rothschild (1902-1988) decided to take the future of the estate into his own hands. His 65 years at Mouton bear witness to the strength of his personality, his spirit of enterprise and his sense of innovation. In 1922, he was the first to introduce chateau bottling. In 1926, he built the famous Grand Chai, the majestic 100-meter first year cellar, which has become a major attraction for visitors to Mouton. 1945 marked the start of a fascinating collection of works of art, created every year for the Mouton label by famous painters. In 1973, after a twenty-year battle, Baron Philippe obtained a revision of the 1855 classification and Mouton was officially recognized as a First Growth. In 1988, Baroness Philippine de Rothschild succeeded her father Baron Philippe. She has become the guarantor of the quality of an illustrious wine whose motto proudly proclaims, "First I am, second I was, I Mouton do not change."

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