Each year since 1945, a famous artist has created an original artwork for the label of Château Mouton Rothschild, with complete freedom as to the design.
The owners of Château Mouton Rothschild, Philippe Sereys de Rothschild, Camille Sereys de Rothschild and Julien de Beaumarchais de Rothschild, commissioned the label for the 2018 vintage from the Chinese artist and writer X...
A Premier Cru Classé, Château Mouton-Rothschild is today regarded as one of the world's greatest wines. The château is owned by Baroness Philippine de Rothschild and consists of 205 acres of vines near Pauillac, in the Médoc, to the north west of the city of Bordeaux. This Premier Cru benefits from exceptionally good natural conditions: the quality of the soil, the position of its vines and their exposure to the sun.
The Château Mouton-Roth...
Nowadays, Château Mouton-Rothschild’s acreage covers around eighty hectares. Eighty per cent of the land is planted with Cabernet Sauvignon vines, ten per cent with Cabernet Franc, eight per cent with Merlot and two per cent with Petit Verdot. At the Château alone between 250 000 and 300 000 bottles of wine are produced annually with the Mouton harvest reaching around 40 to 45 hectolitres per hectare. Then, there is the second wine, ‘Petit Mou...
The cellars at Mouton Rothschild comprise a bottle cellar, a reserve and the second-year cellar. The former contains about 120,000 bottles from exchanges between Mouton Rothschild and the greatest Bordeaux châteaux. Recorked every 25 to 30 years, these wines accompany the meals served at the château. The reserve contains wines preserved for posterity: 24 bottles, 6 magnums and 3 jeroboams of Mouton Rothschild, the oldest bottle dating back to ...
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