2009 Château Mouton Rothschild, Pauillac, Bordeaux

2009 Château Mouton Rothschild, Pauillac, Bordeaux

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2009 Château Mouton Rothschild, Pauillac, Bordeaux

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Description

The 2009 Château Mouton Rothschild has a totally amazing concentration on the nose. Spicy, warm and decadent blackcurrant aromas award this the "green jacket" for the most seductive nose of the week. It has a beguiling richness and weight in the mouth, which is almost viscous but not even vaguely cloying. Sensational in every way, this château is just going from strength to strength, and this fabulous wine could easily surpass their recent triumphs (2008/2006/2005) and even the legends of the past (1945/1959/1961). A multilayered, magnificent Mouton!

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Jane Anson99/100

Hold +3 years or double decant, then carafe for 5 hours.

Interesting to taste this vintage alongside the 2015, as the two have much in common - both generous, opulent and seductive, with tannins that are abundant but deceptively supple. Signature Mouton, muscular architecture, delivering cocoa bean, cedar, crème de cassis, fresh mint, liquorice, crayon, orange zest and pomegranate, celebrating a still-youthful expression of the juicy blackberry and cassis fruits, and a testament to this exceptional vintage. This was drunk over dinner and certainly tasted wonderful, but it has decades ahead of it and will just keep on getting better—100% new oak, Philippe Dhalluin, director.

Drink 2025 - 2045

Jane Anson, JaneAnson.com (June 2023)

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Neal Martin, Vinous97/100

The 2009 Mouton-Rothschild has a more refined bouquet compared to the 2009 Latour, with scents of blackberry, graphite, undergrowth and hints of pressed rose petals. The palate is medium-bodied with a rounded entry. The intense black fruit is laced with pencil shaving and white pepper notes (indeed, the tip of the tongue tingles after the wine has exited.) This is a multi-dimensional First Growth with a very persistent finish. Mouton-Rothschild? Bingo.

Drink 2022 - 2055

Neal Martin, Vinous.com (March 2019)

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Antonio Galloni, Vinous98+/100

The blend is 88% Cabernet Sauvignon and 12% Merlot. Harvest occurred between September 23 and October 6 in a year marked by dry weather, higher-than-average temperatures and generous sunshine.

The 2009 Mouton Rothschild is exceptionally beautiful. A huge, powerful wine, the 2009 possesses stunning richness and radiance, with plenty of underlying structure to support that exuberance. Smoke, grilled herbs, tobacco and incense give 2009 much of its exotic, captivating personality. Seamless and opulent, yet with terrific freshness, the 2009 will surely thrill those fortunate enough to have owned it for several decades, in a word: dazzling.

Drink 2024 - 2059

Antonio Galloni, Vinous.com (May 2016)

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Ian D'Agata, Vinous96+/100

A blend of 88% Cabernet Sauvignon and 12% Merlot; 13.1% alcohol; pH 3.8.

Deep ruby. Flamboyant, super-ripe aromas of spicy blackcurrant, strawberry jam, smoky plum, vanilla, exotic wood and minerals scream Mouton (this would rate 100 points for its nose!). Rich, lush and powerful, with impressive fullness and volume to its ripe strawberry, raspberry, blackcurrant, sweet spice and cedar flavours. I picked up a hint of pomegranate at the end. The slightly chewy tannins are less fine-grained tannins at this stage than I expected, but this is a monumental and extraordinarily long wine that must be among the four or five best ever made at this estate.

(Le Petit Mouton de Mouton-Rothschild, which I rated 86-89, will give pleasure while your Mouton matures in the cellar. Its pretty nose is dominated by cabernet franc notes of violet, cocoa and white pepper, and an intriguing earthy note on the back complicates its plum and blackberry flavours. With moderate generosity of texture, it displays a slightly aggressive mouth feel.)

Ian D'Agata, Vinous.com (May 2010)

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Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW99/100

Deep garnet-coloured, the 2009 Mouton Rothschild gives up bold, earthy notions of underbrush, tilled soil and fungi over a core of crème de cassis, plum preserves and Indian spices with a waft of camphor. Full-bodied with a firm, velvety tannin texture and packed with black fruit preserves and exotic spice layers, it has seamless freshness and a very long, decadently fruited finish.

Drink 2020 - 2060

Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW, Wine Advocate (March 2019)

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Wine Advocate99/100

The 2009 Mouton-Rothschild is as concentrated as the 2010, but it presents itself in a more consumer-friendly, seductive style. Opulently textured and full-bodied with gorgeous levels of crème de cassis, melted liquorice, espresso roast and chocolate, it possesses high but sweet, velvety tannins, a massive body, and fabulous purity and length. This could turn out to be a candidate for perfection in another 8-10 years. It will drink well for 30-50 years but will always be much more approachable and charming than its 2010 counterpart.

Drink 2022 - 2065

Robert M. Parker, Jr., Wine Advocate (December 2014)

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Jancis Robinson MW18+/20

Tasted blind

Dark purplish crimson. Even more intense nose than the previous wine of this pair tasted blind (Promontory 2019)! More savoury, drier and more tannic. But with masses of potential. Less evolved – still tightly wound, in fact. But the long finish suggests real potential. 

Drink 2026 - 2038

Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com (May 2024)

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James Suckling98/100

With a ton of ripe blackcurrant and some bitter chocolate, this is a rich and rather opulent wine that still retains a delightful freshness and has a long, positively dry finish.

Drink or hold

James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com (February 2019)

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Decanter96/100

Mouton was making great wine before 2004, but that year, Philippe Dhalluin, the perfectionist technical director, came on board, and the wines became more consistent. The success in 2009 of Armailhac and Clerc-Milon, the two other classed growths in the stable, indicates how well the Mouton group has been performing, but Mouton remains supreme.

Stephen Brook: New oak dominates the nose, but there’s ample cassis fruit. Suave attack, juicy and succulent, velvety despite the tannins, which are firm but ripe. This is hedonistic stuff with good structure and acidity. Excellent finish, with flair and persistence. Gorgeous!

Alun Griffiths MW: Firm, full, ripe black fruit and graphite nose. Excellent ripe fruit palate with fine but abundant tannins, balanced acidity and oak subdued into the wine. Potentially very fine, with a long finish.

Steven Spurrier: Fine, concentrated cassis nose with very good depth. Intense vineyard ripeness gives a lissom texture to the palate, yet the fruit purity is so forceful; it dominates yet is still lifted, fragrant and elegant. Great wine.

Stephen Brook, Alun Griffiths MW, Steven Spurrier, Decanter.com

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Jeb Dunnuck100/100

Pure perfection and reminding me slightly of 1982, the 2009 Château Mouton Rothschild boasts an opaque ruby hue as well as an incredibly perfumed, sexy, seductive style in its ripe currant and cassis fruits as well as new saddle leather, spicy oak, smoke tobacco, and graphite-driven aromas and flavours. Complex, full-bodied, and beautifully concentrated, with sweet tannins, this masterpiece is already impossible to resist yet won't hit full maturity for another decade and will evolve for 50-60 years if well stored.

Drink 2033 - 2069

Jeb Dunnuck, JebDunnuck.com (May 2023)

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Stephen Tanzer97+/100

Opaque, almost impenetrable purple-ruby. Closed nose hints at ripe dark plum, cassis, violet, coffee, minerals and ink. Opulent blackcurrant flavours, minerals, and herbs are pure and clean, with harmonious acidity lifting and extending them to the long, rich, suave finish. This wine has improved considerably since the Primeurs. In fact, this is even more true of the 2010, which makes me think that Mouton may now require extra patience and leeway when it's tasted during the spring following the harvest—another stellar wine for this property.

Stephen Tanzer, Vinous.com (July 2012)

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About this WINE

Château Mouton Rothschild

Château Mouton Rothschild

Classified as a First Growth, Château Mouton Rothschild has a long and storied history; wine has been made here since Roman times. The property spans 82 hectares of vines in Pauillac, planted with the classic varieties of the region, Cabernet Sauvignon being predominant.

The estate has been in the Baron Philippe de Rothschild family since 1853, but it wasn’t until the arrival of Baron Philippe de Rothschild in 1922 that its fortunes were transformed. Baron Philippe was a dynamic figure who revolutionised the estate and was the first to introduce château-bottling in 1924. He also introduced the concept of commissioning an artist to design each new vintage’s label. Some of the most notable contributors include Salvador Dalí, Henry Moore, Marc Chagall, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Anish Kapoor and Peter Doig.

His daughter Baroness Philippine continued to help raise the estate to new heights with numerous endeavours, including the inauguration of a new vat house in 2013. Today, her three children, Camille and Philippe Sereys de Rothschild and Julien de Beaumarchais de Rothschild, continue the efforts of their predecessors.

Following the retirement in 2020 of Philippe Dhalluin, the winemaking team is now headed up by Jean-Emmanuel Danjoy. With his team, he oversees over 83 hectares of vines, planted with Cabernet Sauvignon (78%), Merlot (18%), Cabernet Franc (3%), and Petit Verdot (1%). The average age of the vines is around 50 years.

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Pauillac

Pauillac

Pauillac is the aristocrat of the Médoc boasting boasting 75 percent of the region’s First Growths and with Grand Cru Classés representing 84 percent of Pauillac's production.

For a small town, surrounded by so many familiar and regal names, Pauillac imparts a slightly seedy impression. There are no grand hotels or restaurants – with the honourable exception of the establishments owned by Jean-Michel Cazes – rather a small port and yacht harbour, and a dominant petrochemical plant.

Yet outside the town, , there is arguably the greatest concentration of fabulous vineyards throughout all Bordeaux, including three of the five First Growths. Bordering St Estèphe to the north and St Julien to the south, Pauillac has fine, deep gravel soils with important iron and marl deposits, and a subtle, softly-rolling landscape, cut by a series of small streams running into the Gironde. The vineyards are located on two gravel-rich plateaux, one to the northwest of the town of Pauillac and the other to the south, with the vines reaching a greater depth than anywhere else in the Médoc.

Pauillac's first growths each have their own unique characteristics; Lafite Rothschild, tucked in the northern part of Pauillac on the St Estèphe border, produces Pauillac's most aromatically complex and subtly-flavoured wine. Mouton Rothschild's vineyards lie on a well-drained gravel ridge and - with its high percentage of Cabernet Sauvignon - can produce (in its best years) Pauillac's most decadently rich, fleshy and exotic wine.

Latour, arguably Bordeaux's most consistent First Growth, is located in southern Pauillac next to St Julien. Its soil is gravel-rich with superb drainage, and Latour's vines penetrate as far as five metres into the soil. It produces perhaps the most long-lived wines of the Médoc.

Recommended Châteaux
Ch. Lafite-Rothschild, Ch. Latour, Ch. Mouton-Rothschild, Ch. Pichon-Longueville Baron, Ch. Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande, Ch. Lynch-Bages, Ch. Grand-Puy-Lacoste, Ch, Pontet-Canet, Les Forts de Latour, Ch. Haut-Batailley, Ch. Batailley, Ch. Haut-Bages Libéral.

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Cabernet Sauvignon blend

Cabernet Sauvignon blend

Cabernet Sauvignon lends itself particularly well in blends with Merlot. This is actually the archetypal Bordeaux blend, though in different proportions in the sub-regions and sometimes topped up with Cabernet Franc, Malbec, and Petit Verdot.

In the Médoc and Graves the percentage of Cabernet Sauvignon in the blend can range from 95% (Mouton-Rothschild) to as low as 40%. It is particularly suited to the dry, warm, free- draining, gravel-rich soils and is responsible for the redolent cassis characteristics as well as the depth of colour, tannic structure and pronounced acidity of Médoc wines. However 100% Cabernet Sauvignon wines can be slightly hollow-tasting in the middle palate and Merlot with its generous, fleshy fruit flavours acts as a perfect foil by filling in this cavity.

In St-Emilion and Pomerol, the blends are Merlot dominated as Cabernet Sauvignon can struggle to ripen there - when it is included, it adds structure and body to the wine. Sassicaia is the most famous Bordeaux blend in Italy and has spawned many imitations, whereby the blend is now firmly established in the New World and particularly in California and  Australia.

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Not ready

These wines are very young. Whilst they're likely to have lots of intense flavours, their acidity or tannins may make them feel austere. Although it isn't "wrong" to drink these wines now, you are likely to miss out on a lot of complexity by not waiting for them to mature.

Ready - youthful

These wines are likely to have plenty of fruit flavours still and, for red wines, the tannins may well be quite noticeable. For those who prefer younger, fruitier wines, or if serving alongside a robust meal, these will be very enjoyable. If you choose to hold onto these wines, the fruit flavours will evolve into more savoury complexity.

Ready - at best

These wines are likely to have a beautiful balance of fruit, spice and savoury flavours. The acidity and tannins will have softened somewhat, and the wines will show plenty of complexity. For many, this is seen as the ideal time to drink and enjoy these wines. If you choose to hold onto these wines, they will become more savoury but not necessarily more complex.

Ready - mature

These wines are likely to have plenty of complexity, but the fruit flavours will have been almost completely replaced by savoury and spice notes. These wines may have a beautiful texture at this stage of maturity. There is lots to enjoy when drinking wines at this stage. Most of these wines will hold in this window for a few years, though at the very end of this drinking window, wines start to lose complexity and decline.