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  • Country ranking ?

    118
  • Producer ranking ?

    11
  • Decanting time

    3h
  • When to drink

    from 2025
  • Food Pairing

    Challans duck, beetroot & black garlic and sour plums

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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

Blend: 90% Cabernet Sauvignon, 9% Merlot and 1% Petit Verdot

A heterogeneous vintage, 2017 will remain in the memory of a lot of vintners with very mixed feelings. An early bud break put hopes very high for a good vintage. These hopes were destroyed by a frost period of historical dimensions. On April 20 an 21 as well as on April 27 and 28 the frost destroyed 30 to 50% of the harvest in the Gironde area, though the best terroirs and famous ...

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Vintage 2017

Bordeaux 2017 - A year of contrast 

Life isn’t fair and neither is nature. As the earth gets warmer, flowering gets earlier, and the risk of frost damage becomes greater. Not many winemakers can recall the frosts of 1991 first hand, but their legacy is still haunting. When the meteorologists predicted a cold blast on the nights of the 27th and 28th of April, there was a genuine sense of panic. Most with the means deployed bougies, wind turb...

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Written Notes

Tasted in November 2021. 90% Cabernet Sauvignon + 9% Merlot + 1% Petit Verdot. 13.06% alcohol. Classic nose of Cabernet Sauvignon with tobacco leaves and roasted bacon, elegant and refined on the palate, great complexity and length. It's a great wine that will be mature sooner than f.i. 2019 and 2018. 97-98p.

  • 98p

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.

  • 98p

Compared to the 2014 (and better than 2011 and 2012) by the estate, the 2017 Mouton-Rothschild is a final blend of 90% Cabernet Sauvignon, 9% Merlot, and 1% Petit Verdot, harvested from the 7th to the 29th of September, brought up all in new barrels. This beauty is going to check in behind the sensational 2015 but is unquestionably one of the gems in the vintage. Crème de cassis, graphite, Asian spice, and cedar pencil notes all flow to a rich, full-bodied, deep, layered beauty that has tons of potential. Hitting 13.1% alcohol, it has more texture and depth than most and will need 4-6 years of cellaring. Production is down over 10% due more to the dry summer than any frost damage.

  • 97p

0% Cabernet Sauvignon, 9% Merlot, 1% Petit Verdot, harvested 7–29 September.
Healthy, glowing deep crimson with soft cherry rim. Rocky/smoky cassis lift to the aroma. Fragrant with sober and non-exotic fruit. Serious. Super-fine texture, appears gentle but is very persistent, so fresh and effortless and yet intense and long. Refined and accessible but long term too.

  • 93p

Ruby. Cassis, anise, spices, faint exotic note, blueberries, nuanced, minerals, touch of tobacco nose. Fresh acidity, ripe tannins, juicy, red berries, anise, spices, detailed, intense, layered, bit lighter but nuanced, long. 96-98

  • 97p

The 2017 Mouton Rothschild has one of the highest percentages of Cabernet Sauvignon ever at 90%, with 9% Merlot and 1% Petit Verdot. Very deep purple-black in color, the nose is already singing of crushed black currants, warm blackberries and chocolate-covered cherries with hints of violets, star anise, cinnamon stick and cloves plus wafts of pencil lead and unsmoked cigars. Medium-bodied, wonderfully delicate yet intense in the mouth (gaining some richness in the mid-palate on my second taste two and a half weeks later), it has super fine-grained, smooth tannins and incredible freshness, finishing very long with tons of tightly wound layers. Wow. This vintage is going to be very long-lived in the cellar!  97-99p

Dark purple red with violet hue and black core. Expressive nose with elegant roasting aroma, ripe fruit, blackcurrants, elderberries and blackberries. Balanced spiciness adds to the wine's complexity. On the palate well structured with ripe and polished tannins, complex fruit and hints of minerality, elegant spiciness in the background. A great Mouton in a very classic style. 98

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Origin

Pauillac, Bordeaux

Grapes

9% Merlot
90% Cabernet Sauvignon
1% Petit Verdot

Drinking temperature

17-18C

Inside Information

THE LABEL DESIGN

The owners of Château Mouton Rothschild, Philippe Sereys de Rothschild, Camille Sereys de Rothschild and Julien de Beaumarchais de Rothschild, gave the commission for the label of the 2017 vintage to the French artist Annette Messager, born in 1943. Hailed throughout the world for her creative talents, she takes objects, shapes and words from everyday life to create a world of sometimes joyful, sometimes alarming poetry, marked byher feminist convictions.

Annette Messager's work for Mouton is titled "Hallelujah". In a n approach that is both realistic and symbolic, she combines two sunbstances, milk and wine, which the Bible often associates with each other, hymning the virtues of both.

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