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Château Mouton-Rothschild 1986

Château Mouton-Rothschild, Bordeaux, France

Château Mouton-Rothschild
Bordeaux France
  • 98
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  • 27 Pros of
    27 recommend
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1282 98
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  • Country ranking ?

    398

  • Producer ranking ?

    16

  • Decanting time

    4h

  • When to drink

    now to 2025

  • Food Pairing

    Noisettes of venison with sauce grand veneur

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Parker 100 points/ After stumbling over some wines I thought were high class Bordeaux, I nailed this wine in one of the blind tastings for this article. In most tastings where a great Bordeaux is inserted with California Cabernets, the Bordeaux comes across as drier, more austere, and not nearly as rich and concentrated (California wines are inevitably fruitier and more massive). To put it mildly, the 1986 Mouton-Rothschild held its own (and t...

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The Story

Château Mouton Rothschild A Premier Cru Classé in 1973, Château Mouton Rothschild, owned by Baroness Philippine de Rothschild, consists of 205 acres of vines near Pauillac, in the Médoc, North West of the city of Bordeaux. This Premier Cru benefits from exceptionally good natural conditions, both in the quality of the soil, the position of its vines and their exposure to the sun. It is regarded today as one of the world's greatest wine. 


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Wine Information

Climatic conditions at the Château / A mild and wet January was followed by cold and dry weather in February and March.
The vegetation cycle began later than average, on 30 April, but soon caught up during a very fine summer.
Flowering took place very evenly around 18 June. Mid-veraison was recorded on 21 August.
Ideal weather conditions meant that by harvest time the grapes were very ripe, forming small bunches with highly concentrated fla...

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Average Bottle Price

2015 2014 2013 2011 2010 2005
746€ +20.1% 621€ -23.2% 809€ -5.4% 855€ +8.2% 790€ +146.1% 321€

This data comes from the FINE Auction Index, a composite of average prices for wines sold at commercial auctions in 20 countries. The average prices from each year have been collected since 1990. This chart plots the index value of the average price of the wines.

Tasting note

color

Medium and Dark

ending

Long

flavors

Blackcurrant, Mint, Plum, Coffee, Mushrooms and Leather

nose

Open, Complex and Refined

recommend

Yes

taste

Well-structured, Perfectly balanced, Full-bodied, Firm, Elegant and Full

Written Notes

1986 was staggeringly so. 'WOW,' was the first thing that came to mind. Its amazing concentration was the second. Huge, thick and lip-smacking, this '86 elevated this flight to another level. Since this wine was served blind, there were a lot of '82 guesses occurring, and Jefery liked its 'vanilla.' As good as the previous four wines were, this bottle of 1986 Mouton made me want to downgrade all of them! This is another Mouton that will be amongst the 20th Century's Top Ten, and maybe even Top Five Moutons

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  • 99p
The bottle was in a superb condition. Bright, lovely deep and dark colour. Surprisingly open, oaky, spicy and flavourful nose. Prosperous, well-balanced, intense and multifaceted wine. As good and big as expected. A real joy now, but the good intensity of fruit and heavy structure makes me think this will be much more breathtaking in future. Real smash hit!
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  • 96p

Ruby. Coffee, anise, blueberries, some spices, some leather, detailed but on the rich and ripe side. Fresh acidity, ripe tannins, dark fruity, anise, some spices, bit woody finish. Two hours in decanter. Not enough! 96

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Although decanted four hours before service, the wine needed a long time to open up, eventually displaying a complex aroma reminiscent of elderberries and blackcurrants, slight earthy notes, Indian sandalwood, fine Cuban tobacco, cigar box, graphite and pencil shavings. On the palate the massive structure did not prevent elegance and persistence to go hand in hand. Very aromatic, repeating the flavours of the nose, ripe, silky but still somehow youthful tannins, fine acidity and deeply impressing length. An almost perfect drinking experience. 100/100

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1986 Chateau Mouton-Rothschild, Bordeaux, France D1,5h, G2 (Gothenburg, Sweden, Okt 2012) Starts of as quite a backward and dark nose with mushroomy notes. Takes on a completely different character after 30 min in the glass with delicous, pure, liqueur like cassis fruit, pencil shavings, mint and tobacco. Full bodied and very tannic palate with lush, sweet, dark plummy fruit with sweet black currant notes, coffee, leather, mint and pipe tobacco. It’s a interesting wrestling match on the palate between the massive tannins and big fruit. Luckily this wine is in perfect balance and the fruit sings on the very long finish. Far from mature! Drink 2018-2036 98p.
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Origin

Pauillac, Bordeaux

Vintage Quality

Excellent

Value For Money

Good

Investment potential

Very Good

Fake factory

None

Glass time

2h

Inside Information

Vinous (Stephen Tanzer) 95 points 

(8% cabernet sauvignon, 1% merlot, 8% cabernet franc and 2% petit verdot; pH 3.54; IPT 66; 12.5% alcohol; 9% new oak; an 8% selection): Very deep, saturated ruby with only a hint of garnet at the rim. Ripe red and black fruits, mint, vanilla, minerals and delicate black pepper on the captivating nose. Very rich, big and deep, with a luscious texture and ripe flavors similar to the aromas. Finishes smoothly tannic and very long, with building sweetness. This gorgeous Mouton, though massively built, also reflects the long hang time of the berries, which led to a perfect polymerization of its tannins and a fleshy structure. Still very much an infant: I wouldn't touch a bottle for at least another ten years. I also like the fact that, although it's very sweet and creamy, strong acidity (note the lower-than-usual pH) is keeping it vibrant. This vintage is the first in which Mouton vinified its young vines separately and only used those vats judged to be of grand cru quality. Following a slowdown in physiological ripening during August, the late harvest (October 2-16) permitted a longer growing curve. Tourbier noted that "petit verdot needs its head in the sun and its feet in the water, and as it had been initially planted on one of the highest, coolest sites at Mouton, a mistake on our part, it rarely ripened enough to be included in the grand vin, and this explains why we hardly used it in the older vintages."- Ian D'Agata (8/211)

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