1970 Chateau Mouton-Rothschild Bordeaux - 750ml

1970 Chateau Mouton-Rothschild Bordeaux - 750ml

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1970 Chateau Mouton-Rothschild Bordeaux

Château Mouton Rothschild is located in the commune of Pauillac, in the Medoc, 30 miles (50km) northwest of the city of Bordeaux. The grand vin is among the most highly rated and priced wines in the world, and is generally regarded as the most exuberant and powerful of all Bordeaux. It was famously added to the First Growths set out in the 1855 Classification in 1973.

The château started life as Brane-Mouton, and was among the best in Bordeaux through the 18th and early 19th Centuries, although there was a dip in quality and price in the 1840s. The Rothschild family bought (and renamed) the property in 1853 and quickly restored its reputation, but not in time for the 1855 Classification of Médoc wines, in which Mouton was only ranked a second growth wine.  Where as Lafite, Latour, Margaux and Haut-Brion attained Premier Cru Classé status.

Baron Philippe de Rothschild took control in 1922 and introduced château bottling in 1924, requiring the construction of the iconic barrel hall. At the end of World War II he also instigated the commissioning of a different artist each year to design the label. But his crowning achievement was the promotion of Mouton in 1973 to first growth status – the first change to the 1855 order.

Mouton Rothschild makes up to 350,000 bottles of wine a year, including the second wine Le Petit Mouton, which was established in 1993. It is made with grapes from selected younger vines, vinified in the same Mouton vats and aged in oak barrels. Around a hectare of white grapes was planted in the early 1980s to make the very rare Aile d'Argent Bordeaux Blanc.


Product Details

Varietal Bordeaux Blend
Vintage 1970
Rating 93 RP
Bottle Size 750 ml
Bottle Quantity 1
Country France
Region Bordeaux
Location Pauillac
Producer Mouton-Rothschild
Color Red
Wine Type Table

Winery Details

Varietal Bordeaux Blend
Vintage 1970
Rating 93 RP
Bottle Size 750 ml
Bottle Quantity 1
Country France
Region Bordeaux
Location Pauillac
Producer Mouton-Rothschild
Color Red
Wine Type Table

Robert Parker

Rating 93 RP - I have had a remarkable number of opportunities to taste this wine. One of the most frustratingly irregular wines I have ever encountered the 1970 Mouton can range from pure nectar to a wine that is angular austere and frightfully hard and tannic. This bottle (one of the Reserve du Chateau bottlings that was mistakenly released by the estate and labeled with the letters R.C. rather than a number) was impossible to assess when decanted given its hard tough impenetrable style. Nearly eight hours later the wine had opened magnificently to reveal a classic bouquet of sweet cassis tobacco minerals and exotic spice aromas. Opulent full-bodied thick and juicy the extraordinary evolution of this particular bottle would make a persuasive argument for long-term decanting. After being perplexed throughout much of this wine's evolution I was reassured by this bottle. No doubt Mouton's high Cabernet Sauvignon content causes this wine to go through a tight hard ungenerous stage and the 1970 requires 5-7 more years of cellaring. RP

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