500 cl, 12.50% Alc.

Mouton Rothschild
2000

2000
  • 500 cl, 12.50% Alc.
  • Aging potential: More than 20 years
  • Red

Starting price

ÂŁ 25,400
Bordeaux, France
This wine embodies the pure tradition of the Mouton style. It imposes richness in the spirit of the greatest vintages. The bottle is exceptionally embellished with the little “Augsburg Ram” from a drinking vessel created around 1590 by the German master goldsmith Jakob Schenauer that can be found in the Museum of Wine in Art at Mouton. The bottle plus the wine are splendid collectors’ treasures.
Aging potential: More than 20 years
  • 500 cl, 12.50% Alc.
  • Aging potential: More than 20 years
  • Red
RP 97/100
DEC 96/100
WS 93/100
Robert Parker
Deep garnet colored with a touch of brick, the 2000 Mouton Rothschild (composed of 86% Cabernet Sauvignon and 14% Merlot) boldly bursts from the glass with tantalizing Black Forest cake, dried mulberries, kirsch and blackcurrant pastilles notes plus wafts of iodine, incense, potpourri and cinnamon stick with a hint of cigar boxes. Medium to full-bodied, the palate packs in the muscular fruit, framed by firm, ripe, grainy tannins and seamless freshness, finishing with phenomenal length. This is an incredibly complex and multifaceted wine, and it's drinking deliciously now. This said, I can’t help but feel that it is holding something back, that it still has another layer of opulence and seduction to reveal in its tight-knit fruit and solid structure. I personally can’t wait to see how this beauty will continue to unfold over the years to come. (Reviewed by Lisa Perrotti-Brown)
Decanter
A little more open than the other four Firsts in the vintage, with undergrowth, baked earth and gentle spice alongside the truffles, smoked caramel, spice and bilberry fruits. It shows plenty of the trademark Mouton generosity and ripe tannic structure and is lusciously textured. This came in at 80% 1st wine. It wasn't until Philippe Dhalluin arrived a few years later that production for the 1st wine would be lowered, with significantly more Petit Mouton being made (Lafite and Latour both closer to 50% 1st wine for similar sized estates). That's not to say that you won't be thrilled to open and drink this wine, and it will undoubtedly show that same stubborn unwillingness to fade away that the First Growths all share. 100% new oak.
Wine Spectator
Rounded, fleshy and a bit extracted in feel, with dark plum, blackberry and fig jam flavors that flirt with a pruny edge, picking up lots of warm mocha, singed vanilla bean and ganache notes through the finish. This relies more on easy opulence than on depth or purity on the end

Chateau Mouton Rothshild

History

The name Chateau Mouton Rothschild first appeared after Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild acquired Chateau Brane-Mouton in 1853, two years before the Medoc classification. In 1922, Baron Philippe de Rothschild, Baron Nathaniel’s great-grandson, took over the estate. In 1924, he decided that all wines would henceforth be bottled at the château. This was an entirely new practice in Bordeaux. In 1991, Château Mouton-Rothschild was entrusted to his daughter Philippine, who created the white wine Aile d’Argent, and the red wine Le Petit Mouton de Mouton Rothschild. Each year since 1945, the labels of the bottles have been specially decorated with artwork by leading painters. The Chateau Brane-Mouton remains in family hands until today, and continues the grand tradition of mixing art with wine.

Technology

Beautiful growing conditions with plenty of sun allows grapes to ripen with health and energy. Based on Cabernet Sauvignon with only 14% Merlot, this wine expresses a typical vintage with a ripe, fruit-driven, minerality-touched nose and a complex, well-structured intense mouth. The grapes are hand-picked and placed in open baskets, and then moved to the gravity-feed vat room, where most of the vats are made of oak. Maturation takes place in new oak barrels in the typical MĂ©doc manner, which includes topping-up and fining with egg-white to clarify and stabilise the wine. Attention, tradition and precision is what makes these wines superb.

Bordeaux

Power, strong structure and richness are all words that describe Pauillac wine. Located on the left bank of Bordeaux between Saint-Estephe and Saint-Julien, the area covers about 1200 hectares. It is home to some of the world’s most renowned red wines, and its principal grape is Cabernet Sauvignon. The gravelly soil in this area is perfect for growing vines -- it retains heat, provides good drainage, and goes down for several metres over a clay-limestone base. This helps to produce the richly tannic, powerful and long-lived wines of the area.

The Pauillac appellation is home to three of the five “Premiers Crus Classés du Médoc et de Graves” of the 1855 Médoc Classification -- a ranking of Bordeaux's best wine-producing properties. These are Lafite, Latour and Mouton.

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