2015 Chateau Mouton Rothschild Pauillac 750 ml

• Cabernet Sauvignon
• 2015
• France
• Pauillac

• The Story

  Mouton Rothschild stands above all other Pauillac wines of the 2015 vintage. Rippling with strength and intensity, it’s a wine that Jeb Dunnuck praised as “a candidate for perfection,” and no serious Bordeaux cellar should be without it.

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• Wine Facts
  • Fruit Intensity
  • Oak Intensity
  • Body
  • Acidity
  • Tannin

  • ABV 13.50%
  • 2 hours
  • Now - 2052
  • 82% Cabernet Sauvignon
    16% Merlot
    2% Cabernet Franc
  • Serving temperature - 60°
  • Cork
• Wine Access Tasting Note

  Presents an adolescent shade of pure purple-ruby. Remarkably youthful blackberry, black currant, and plum fruit is shaded by a complex crosshatching of cedar, violets, five-spice, tobacco, wild herbs, and hot stones. The wine ripples with strength and intensity, with a satiny texture but iron grip to the finely textured tannins. This muscularity is balanced by an undercurrent of freshness that lifts a complex array of flavors: black fruit, exotic spices, mocha, toast, tobacco, and a touch of graphite. It finishes incredibly long, lingering on savory spice and earth notes in a way that inspires contemplation. Built for the long haul, it is lovely now but will reward a few years or decades in the cellar. Drink 2024–2052.

• Food Pairings
  • Hard Cheese
  • Red Meat
• Critic Reviews

  99 pts

  James Suckling

  Decadent and rich aromas of black cherries and plums with wet earth and sandalwood. Turns to dried mushrooms. Full-bodied, tight and closed with big, polished tannins, yet this is very closed and shy right now. Despite this, underneath it shows such depth and beauty. Tangy acidity. This is a combination of 2005 and 2009. Try it in 2024. 

  99 pts

  Jeb Dunnuck

  The crème de la crème from the northern Médoc is the 2015 Mouton Rothschild and this incredible wine flirts with perfection. Made from 82% Cabernet Sauvignon, 16% Merlot, and 3% Petit Verdot, this inky purple-colored effort offers sensational Cabernet flare in its crème de cassis, graphite, lead pencil shavings, floral, and Asian spice aromas and flavors. It is full-bodied, dense, and incredibly concentrated, yet still has the sexy, opulent, seductive style of the vintage front and center. It will be a candidate for perfection in 10-12 years and is going to be one of the longest-lived wines in the vintage. Hats off to Philippe Dhalluim and his team for this incredible effort that’s a step up over just about every other northern Médoc out there!

  98 pts

  Wine Advocate

  The 2015 Mouton Rothschild is a blend of 82% Cabernet Sauvignon, 16% Merlot and 2% Cabernet Franc aged in 100% new oak with a mid-July 2017 bottling. Deep garnet-purple colored, this Mouton pulls off an incredibly impactful entrance, emerging from the glass with profound notes of blackberry preserves, plum pudding, crème de cassis and grilled meats, featuring perfectly accessorized accents of sandalwood, cinnamon stick and fenugreek with wafts of dried roses, unsmoked cigars and tilled soil. Medium to full-bodied, the palate is completely packed with rich, ripe black fruits sparked with blue and red fruit undertones and an incredible structure of very firm, very ripe tannins, with seamless freshness and an epically long, earth-laced finish. Possessing striking natural beauty framed by impeccable crafting, this 2015 is a total diva and well worth attention. Give it a good 7-8 years in bottle, at least, and drink it over the next 30+ years.