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100 Robert Parker
The 2020 Mouton Rothschild is a striking wine and one that I regretted not purchasing en primeur as soon as it landed in my glass. Offering up complex aromas of minty cassis, pencil shavings, loamy soil, cigar wrapper, espresso roast and violets, it's medium to full-bodied, broad and layered, with terrific concentrated, beautifully refined tannins and a long, penetrating finish. Checking in at 12.8% alcohol, its incipient complexity, ineffable sense of completeness and exquisite balance mark it out as the purists' choice among the trio of 2018, 2019 and 2020. In this vintage, the lots that made it into the blend were largely confined to the core gravel terroirs that represent Mouton's heart, meaning that there's a little less to go around. This was the first vintage overseen by Mouton's new technical director, Jean-Emmanuel Danjoy, and he has begun with a flying start.
100 Robert Parker
The 2020 Mouton Rothschild is a striking wine and one that I regretted not purchasing en primeur as soon as it landed in my glass. Offering up complex aromas of minty cassis, pencil shavings, loamy soil, cigar wrapper, espresso roast and violets, it's medium to full-bodied, broad and layered, with terrific concentrated, beautifully refined tannins and a long, penetrating finish. Checking in at 12.8% alcohol, its incipient complexity, ineffable sense of completeness and exquisite balance mark it out as the purists' choice among the trio of 2018, 2019 and 2020. In this vintage, the lots that made it into the blend were largely confined to the core gravel terroirs that represent Mouton's heart, meaning that there's a little less to go around. This was the first vintage overseen by Mouton's new technical director, Jean-Emmanuel Danjoy, and he has begun with a flying start.
98 Vinous
The 2020 Mouton Rothschild is sensual, delicate and polished. Bright floral notes lead into a core of sweet red cherry, cedar, mint, anise and blood orange. In 2020, the Mouton is a wine of unreal elegance and finesse. I can't wait to taste it from bottle, as I think there may be much more to it than it’s showing today. Technical director Jean-Emmanuel Danjoy noted that the 2020 was slow to extract because of its low alcohol (13.1%) compared with recent vintages.
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Château Mouton Rothschild
Unique parmi les Premiers Grands Crus bordelais, le Château Mouton Rothschild est le seul à avoir décroché sa place convoitée dans le fameux classement de 1855 après sa parution. En 1973, la pression exercée par le Baron Philippe de Rothschild pour que le château accède à ce statut ultime, a porté ses fruits. Si les vins règnent en maître en haut du classement des crus classés, leur opulence et leur accessibilité, conjuguées à leurs notes de cassis et à leurs tanins puissants, sont restées fidèles à leur style d’assemblage de haut niveau. Au moment de leur accession au rang de Premier Grand Cru Classé, le Baron Philippe a parfaitement résumé leur profil : « Premier je suis. Second je fus. Mouton ne change », autrement dit, le style reste identique. Pendant plusieurs années, le domaine fut dirigé par sa fille et amatrice d’art, la Baronne Philippine, jusqu’à sa disparition en 2014. Grâce à son implication, des artistes emblématiques, parmi lesquels Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Keith Haring et Georges Braque, ont signé les étiquettes de nombreux millésimes. Hormis l’illustre fer de lance du domaine, Mouton Rothschild, et du second vin, Le Petit Mouton, le vin blanc ultra qualitatif élaboré à plus petite échelle, Aile d’Argent, est particulièrement séducteur.