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• #OPUS ONE 2012 VS CHATEAUX MARGAUX PATCH#

2016 Deep and opaque as you’d expect colour tight to the edge pure blackcurrants real delicacy cassis great ingredients sweet entry lots of fruit but precision and the new oak interwoven great texture and extract really profound delicacy though too – not impenetrable in the least wonderfully silky tannins.Winemaking/Elévage: Fifteen to twenty-five day fermentation and maceration followed by 18 to 22 months in new oak barrels. Average age 45 years planted at 8,500 vines per hectare. Vineyard/Terroir: 84 hectares planted with 77% Cabernet Sauvignon, 12% Merlot, 9% Cabernet Franc and 2% Petit Verdot. Much credit for this goes to Philippe Dhalluin, Mouton’s technical director and his team. Both 20 are great successes for the vintage. The past decade has seen a return to top form here. The first bottle was a closed, backward wine and a little difficult to fathom. Generous friends have opened bottles of the great 1982 which I’ve now had twice. The 1986 for me remains one of the finest Moutons I’ve had which was a wonderfully exotic and expressive wine. In August 2014, Philippine de Rothschild died aged 80.Ĭhâteau Mouton-Rothschild has the ability to produce the most distinctive and flamboyant of all the wines in the Médoc. In 1994 Le Petit Mouton de Mouton Rothschild was created as a second wine for the grand vin.

#OPUS ONE 2012 VS CHATEAUX MARGAUX PATCH#

In 1991 she introduced a white wine Aile d’Argent from a 4 hectare patch of vines in the Mouton vineyard planted with Sauvignon Blanc (57%), Sémillon (42%) and Muscadelle (1%). Since the Baron’s death in 1988 the estate has been run with equal vigor and determination by his daughter Philippine. It heralded an era when great Bordeaux estates began investing in the United States and Latin America. Baron Philippe also established with Robert Mondavi the Opus One venture in the Napa Valley. ‘Premier Je suis, second je fus, Mouton ne change’ became the motto on the wine’s label – ‘First I am, second I was, I Mouton do not change’. Perhaps most remarkably, after a twenty year campaign, Baron Philippe managed to get revision of the original 1855 classification and in 1973 Mouton was promoted to first growth status. From 1945 Baron Philippe commissioned painters to produce art for Mouton’s labels. This was a guarantee of quality and provenance at a time when much fine Bordeaux was sold in barrel and bottled abroad. In 1924 the property became one of the first estates to introduce Château bottling. He had an influence across all Bordeaux and, much later, even across the pond in the United States. His extraordinary efforts, determination and innovation over the next six decades created the legend that is Mouton. In 1922 Baron Philippe de Rothschild took over at Mouton aged just 21. The wine was not actually classified a first growth in 1855 but as the top second growth. Website: Originally Château Brane-Mouton, the estate was bought in 1853 by Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild, of the English branch of the Rothschild family who renamed it Château Mouton-Rothschild.