2016 Chateau Mouton Rothschild Pauillac 750 ml

• Merlot
• 2016
• France
• Pauillac

• The Story

  With four perfect 100-point scores from major critics, the 2016 Mouton ranks among the greatest Bordeaux of all time and the most collectible Mouton Rothschilds ever. From a history-making vintage—one that will take its place among classics like 1961, 1982, and 1986—this bottle will anchor a cellar until the end of the century.

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

  • ABV 13.50%
  • 1.5 hours
  • Now - 2080
  • 83% Merlot
    15% Cabernet Sauvignon
    1% Cabernet Franc
    1% Petit Verdot
  • Serving temperature - 60°
  • Cork
• Wine Access Tasting Note

  The brooding purple color practically radiates muscularity. Opulent aromas of blackcurrant, Black Forest cherry, dark chocolate, espresso, and toast are immediately apparent. Time and air raise nuanced notions of star anise, blackberry liqueur, crushed violets, mint, and graphite. On entry, the obvious power speaks to the style of Mouton and the outstanding vintage. Loaded with finely pixelated tannins, which hold up layers of black fruit, cocoa, baking spice, toasty oak, and herbal hints on broad shoulders. This is a big, mouthfilling wine that somehow doesn't sacrifice the elegance and finesse of classic Pauillac. Decant and enjoy now for its raw youthfulness, or lay it down for 50 years or more. Drink now–2080.

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

  100 pts

  Antonio Galloni

  A towering, thrilling wine, the 2016 Mouton Rothschild is unbelievably beautiful today. Aromatics, fruit density and vertical structure all come together. In the glass, the 2016 is remarkably vivid and powerful, and yet a gentler, more feminine side emerges with time in the glass. The intense, mineral, savory profile recalls the 1986, but the 2016 has more grace, inner sweetness and sophistication than that wine. Even so, the 2016 is going to need at least a number of years in bottle before it starts drinking well, although it won't be the bruiser the 1986 remains to this day. This is breathtaking wine from Mouton, Tecnical Director Philippe Dhalluin and his team.

  100 pts

  Wine Advocate

  Composed of 83% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Merlot, 1% Cabernet Franc and 1% Petit Verdot, the 2016 Mouton Rothschild has an opaque garnet-purple color. WOW—the nose explodes from the glass with powerful blackcurrant cordial, black raspberries, blueberry pie and melted chocolate notions, plus suggestions of aniseed, camphor, lifted kirsch and the faintest waft of a subtle floral perfume in the background. Full-bodied, concentrated, bold and totally seductive in the mouth, it has very fine-grained, silt-like tannins, while jam-packed with tightly wound fruit layers, finishing in this wonderful array of mineral sparks. Magic.

  100 pts

  Jeb Dunnuck

  Along with the Château Lafite, the 2016 Château Mouton Rothschild is the wine of the vintage from the Médoc and is a truly profound, magical, blockbuster wine in every sense. It’s based on 83% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Merlot, and the rest Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot, raised in new French oak. Boasting a saturated purple color as well as an extraordinary bouquet of thick black fruits, lead pencil shavings, new saddle leather, and burning embers, with just a hint of its oak upbringing, this beauty hits the palate with a mammoth amount of fruit and texture yet stays fresh, pure, and light on its feet, with a thrilling sense of minerality as well as building tannins on the finish. It’s one of the most profound young wines I’ve ever tasted, and while it will probably keep for three-quarters of a decade, it offers pleasure even today. Bravo!

  100 pts

  James Suckling

  Dark ruby, purple color. Aromas of blackcurrants, black truffle, crushed stone, licorice and hints of tar. Full-bodied, deep and vertical on the palate, drawing you in and down. The structure is very tannic and powerful, yet the tannins are folded into the wine. One of the most powerful Moutons ever for me. Try after 2027.