Pronounced nose intensity with charr wood, toast, leather, forest floor, spices, black fruits. Medium+ acidity and medium tannin. Tannin is integrated. Still drinking very well depending on provenance and storage condition.
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Medium/deep garnet, pale rim. Lovely pure-fruited nose, floral notes, some exotic spice. Hint of chocolate. Medium/full bodied, cassis fruit, touch of tobacco, spice notes, soft tannins, fresh acidity, long harmonious finish. Outstanding, drinking well, no need to hurry.
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1989 Bordeaux Horizontal - London (Piccolino, Exchange Square): Very luxe. Nose has a mushroom duxelles umami character with an exotic star anise character. Palate is so rich and long with cassis and subtle Christmas spices. With time in the glass there is a subtle rhubarb coulis character to the nose. Mine and the table's wine of the night.
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silky, elegant, charming and complex. this is in a great spot right now even though it can still be stored for some more years with improvement imo. great cabernet driven spice and darkish fruit, tannins, acidity and tertiary aromas perfectly blended togther. mushrooms and sous-bois with hints of cigar box and a intact and performing fruit core.
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-informal dinner, no detailed notes taken - Accesible and intense nose with great cabernet spice, leather, wet forest and signs of mushrooms. Yes this Mouton is in a good spot today. - On the palate silky in all means, balance of intensitiy of the fruit and acidity. Tannis are till there and giving a velvety structure to the fruity core which is ever evolving but as well not super complex to rate it higher. - 94-95p
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Good fill level excellent ruby red color; Light Is Asian spice on the nose,Soft leather, dried flower petals, Exotic spice, very soft silky entry, just a little flabby low ish on acidity, Dry Fine resolving tanninps. Nice medium finish drinks like a less than stellar moton Rothschild.In Seattle with rib roast.
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Incredibly fresh on the nose with camphor notes. Youthful as in no clear signs this is beyond primary. No obvious give aways of Pauillacness such as graphite, pencil lead etc...Solid if not outright awesome
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Mouton vs Lynch-Bages 1989, 1986, 1966 and 1961 vintages (A collector's home): Decanted for 2 hours, served single blind in a flight of 4 wines. Wine A, My 1st ranked wine, groups 2nd. Lovely nose, espresso, coffee grinds, herbs mixed with bright red fruit and blood orange elements. Rich, medium weight palate (the lightest weight wine of the flight), rounder and riper than others, multi-layered sweet fruit. A toss up between this and wine D for me, I ranked this slightly ahead because it seemed more ready to go although less complex.
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It seems it has been 8 years since I last posted a note on the 1989 Mouton. This is still a ravishing, bold wine, its oak fully integrated, its nose bursting with pencil, sandalwood, wood smoke, and blackberry. I love the aromatic volume here, though it’s missing just a bit of the minty, eucalyptus element I recall. The palate is no less vivid (the above complemented by Périgord truffle) transitioning to a persistent finish. From magnum, this seems in good form, having found a stage of excellent drinkability yet promising a long life ahead.
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In a perfectly appropriate spot to drink. A more or less classic Mouton, though the volume on the fruit was turned down a bit, it has a wonderful soft elegance, forward graphite, plum, dark berry, and middle-aged tertiary development, including worn leather and bay leaf. There's some cedar and tobacco that comes through towards the mid-palate and beyond. Not an OMG Mouton, but a fine one still.
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Opened and left in magnum needed abt 3 hours to evolve and open up. Beautiful sois bois and smelly bouquet, balanced and rounded on the palate. Unfortunately my last bottle
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Father’s Day 2023 - my first, so what better occasion to try my hand at a first growth. Happened to be surfing Chambers’ website about three seconds after they added just a single ‘89 Mouton from a private collection, and at a relatively decent price due to a rip in the label the stars were aligned. Thrilling to be sure.
I deliberated for weeks on how to open this bottle. Decant? Audouze? How long do I stand up the bottle? How does the 12.5% ABV factor into the equation? I didn’t have a decanter worthy of the bottle and I didn’t want to wreck the wine, but, after pouring through the Wine Berserkers threads, I’m not sure I necessarily believe in the science of slow-oxing. With three hours to go before dinner, it was time to just go for it.
Opened with a Durand - moist, fully soaked cork. Poured a small taste. Vegetal and wet leaves on the nose. Light flashes of acidity after about 15 minutes in the glass but largely one-dimensional. I decided to wait and check in periodically, leaving the bottle standing in a cool place in my apartment for as long as it takes.
An hour in - we are still in 1D. Not a good sign? Or is no sign one hour in no sign at all?
Three hours in - the nose is starting to evolve. Pyrazines, mushroom, cedar. Palate improving but muted, perhaps too old and too tired to awaken.
5 hours in - finally in a much better place and I’m officially relieved this is not a huge disappointment. Mushrooms and toasted almonds on the nose, dark fruits on the palate.
And then about 45 minutes after that this ‘89 Mouton revealed itself in all its mature glory with freshness, complexity and a finish that I will be chasing for decades to come.
Ripe blueberries. Pepper, dark fruit, cilantro finish that quite intensely goes on and on - it just waves over the palate with fruit and spice for minutes. Flashes of minerality as if gravel was seeping through the palate the same way it would pour through my hands. Black cherry. Ripe plum. Mocha. Mushroom and toasted wood on the nose. Finish bursting with a mouthful of cilantro and spice.
Does one score on the best glass? The best sip? The bottle and experience as a whole?
The best sips were transcendental and 97-98 pts for me. Yet they needed to be earned and were not reflective of the entire bottle.
Still, this 34 year old was authentic and true to itself. I was quite pleased when the toasted notes started showing as I read they were part of Mouton’s style at the time, and the stunning ripe fruit after all these years seems representative of the hot 1989 vintage that led to Mouton’s earliest harvest of the century.
95 pts.
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Jason's belated Birthday: Animalistic, meaty, feral nose to start with which blew away with air. The palate beautifully balanced, classic claret style. No real fireworks but impeccable structure and balance.
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Amazing Bordeaux To Mark A Special Birthday (Noizé, London): Wow. This is wonderful and so exotic. There's a broad mixed fruit backbone of real pedigree. On top of this there are all the elements of a virgin mary with some Worcester Sauce, tomato and crunchy celery. Palate lasts for ever and has beautifully fine tannins with some herbal richness. A spot of soy umami richness. My wine of the night and wine of the year to date.
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Intensity medium(-). Blueberry, blackberry, tomato leaf, pepper, fungus. Acidity medium. Tannins medium(+). Finish medium. Much to our disappointment, this bottle did not perform as we would have hoped. Hence, no rating.
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WSET 2 tasting group get together (Utrecht, NL): [Not tasted blind as it was my bottle] Unfortunately bordering on flawed. The cork was completely soaked. This bottle showed only tertiary notes (leather, forest floor, mushroom), some green bell pepper, hints of blackberry and black currant.
Disappointed…
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Good not great. I haven’t had this wine since broadly tasting this vintage >25 years ago, where it was apparent the first growths of the Medoc inexplicably whiffed in a year where the weather was great and other regions (Graves and Pomerol) made excellent wines
I’ve been hearing how well certain 89s have rounded into form so I pulled the cork on one of 2 bottles I have left. Excellent color and nose with classic dark red fruits, lead pencil, and spices…which deserves a higher score than the overall wine. the palate is fresh and balanced, but doesn’t have the depth or harmony of the best Moutons.
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Cork intact. Retasted after 48 hours. Super seductive with dark fruit, tobacco, cigar, good acidity, tannins beautifully integrated, round, enormous length. Heaven. Lack of power makes higher score not applicable.
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I'm a sucker for Moutons and this wine after less than an hour was showing how far wrong early judgments of it by Parker and Tanzer were. A smorgasbord of flavors, tobacco, grilled meats, leather, blackberries, black cherries, dried herbs, sweet Oak, cedar, graphite, touches of strawberries. Almost too much for the senses to handle. Near silky smooth.
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My second Mouton after a bottle of the 1981 vintage. Bottle bought at an auction a couple of months ago and opened 30 minutes before drinking (no decant). The cork was entirely soaked. Very ethereal and complex medium-bodied wine. Very Pauillac. Now, would I think this is a great wine if it wasn't Mouton Rothschild? I mean, I had other 1989s Pauillac (PLC, Duhart Milon) that were in my mind as interesting as this. But perhaps my palate is not distinguished enough to appreciate all the subtelties of a wine of such pedigree.
Good but I would not call it a success for Mouton, nor for the vintage. It has a decent structure, with a bit of rusticity and slightly angular tanins. Good length, medium bodied, not much fruitiness nor freshness. The wine itself is pretty nice, but there is nothing really special in it. I mean, one can have the same level of pleasure with hundreds of ordinary wines from the area. Just a good ordinary claret at the wrong price point.
Popped and poured, cork soaked through and sheared off. I took a sample and let it stand in a cool place for a couple of hours. It started out slowly and awkwardly. My initial fear was that this may be drying out. But no, after a while it began to show its class. Some would argue that, like the 1990, this is a Mouton without ambition, against some epic 1989s made at Haut Brion /LMHB, Lafite of course, Palmer, Petrus, etc. Suckling famously rated it 99 (I think) and Parker 89 (I think). Both turned out to be wrong. Parker was more wrong than Suckling, imo. It is in interesting that in such a warm vintage this is barely more than medium-bodied, commendably 12.5% abv. As if, in the transition from the Baron’s passing, his now also late daughter, Philippine, deliberately went for a more elegant style, at the risk of being condemned with a low Parker score. But with the passage of time this has evolved into a glorious wine. It does not have the power of the Moutons from the legendary 82, 86 and 96 vintages, but has so much class and finesse. It has a glorious, pure, red-fruited compote and (appropriately for this time of year) a Christmassy spicy entry, with classic Pauillac cedar and lead pencil, allied to a smoky late autumn bonfire note, which combined is such a turn on. One distinguished wine pages forumite famously dismissed this as a luncheon claret. On this showing that is just so far off base. It is definitely on the lean side but arguably no worse for that; but, at the same time, it is effortlessly seamless, classy and harmonious; clearly first growth pedigree, and easily 95 pts.
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Annual BYO Pre-Dinner (mostly mature Bordeauxs): From magnum. Shunned by the critics on release, this vintage turns out to be one of the best vintages for current consumption and probably among the top 10 vintages in the past 50 years before the Chateau’s hot streak begun with the 2009 vintage. This was drinking so easily, I could have finished the mag alone. 94/95 pts
TN: Intense, young, dark berries, herbs, minerality, some tobacco. On the palate this is well balanced, with a telltale graphite minerality, a sweet, ripe dark fruit core, some leather, whiffs of tobacco and some faint toasty notes. Medium+ precision. Beautiful roundness, with round, velvety tannins, a well integrated medium acidity, a creamy texture. Well balanced and with a long but not overly complex finish.
Decanting: This should be good to go with 2 hours in the decanter.
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From Magnum, not decanted. Barnyard to the fore, surprisingly light berry fruit at first, but adding plum and blue berries quickly. Nice leather and scorched earth dimensions along with mineral notes of graphite and pencil shavings. Intense and masculine with a dark soul to it, supported by a high octane palate. Still brutally young with mouthcoating tannin and plenty of acidity and absolutely to rush to open any magnums here – but if you do, would go for at least a 3-4h decant.
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Along side the 89 H-B and Margaux, this was third but that's only because the other two were perfect/near-perfect. This has incredible, pure, complex fruit and now-refined structure. Terrific.
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Fabulous as always. PNP, perfect ! Do not recommend decant. Delicious Drank with my 91 yr old father at Reve in Lafayette, Ca. Wonderful dinner and wine of course !
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Un des nez les plus terreux jusqu’à présent, au nez et en bouche belle matière, très bien équilibré niveau tannins/acidité/fruits, sous-bois dominant mais bien intégré, pas dans les meilleurs mais bien fait.
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It is funny because I was thinking that Parker always underrated this wine. He always gave it high 80’s to 90. I always had it mid-90’s. This is the best version of this wine that I have had. Great balance, elegant and full of life. This doesn’t have the muscle of mouton from a great vintage, but the seamlessness makes up for it. Cedar, lead pencil, iodine slight herbaceous tones, with lovely red current and cherries. Really stunning. Oh, btw, what makes elite wine different from great wine? Absence of edges. This wine as zero edges. Just incredible harmony
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Second of the case, opened not many days after the first. An exceptional wine with long life ahead of it. Don’t be shy to drink now - but give it at least 3, and perhaps 5, hours of air. And relish from them on.
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I loved the the beautiful open nose on this wine. The wine is medium bodied which seemed out of sinc with the nose. Still a very nice wine. Drink now-2030.
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Bordal au Bavard (Mouton, L'Evangile, Roc de Cambes) (Le Bavard, Carouge): Ouvert 1 heure avant dégustation, a pris du temps pour s'épanouir. Robe grenat moyen. Dès le 1er nez, on sent la classe, boîte à cigares, une touche de cassis, un peu plus "mentholé" que dans mes souvenirs. En bouche, fin et aristocratique, manque peut-être un peu de matière mais garde une belle tenue. A boire avec de la réserve.
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if you were to rate this wine on its bouquet alone, it would be a "100" - the wine itself is a lot more subdued and still needs to be coaxed out of its shell - this should get better and better and could well be sensational in ten years!
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First of a new case. Top of the cork was a little mouldy but it came out in one piece. Nose muted initially - but 2 hours in the decanter and this wine comes alive. From then on it was a joy to drink, improving with more time. Don’t be afraid to decant much earlier. I think this wine easily has another 10 or even 20 years ahead of it.
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Very little sediment. Still dark purple and restrained. Began to open after a couple of hours. At 32 years still youthful and powerful. Hard to know what the drinking window is but I predict it will be good over the next couple of decades.
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A Tour de Force 'Best Bottle' Tasting (Republique, Los Angeles): Not flawed, just not very generous, I am afraid. Both green and volatile, with a little barnyard as well. Maybe this turns in the years ahead, but hard to be confident based on this bottle.
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Part of the ‘89 bordeaux tasting with the boys. Wine #1. Tasted blind. A little green and simple on the nose and though less green on the palate, this was pretty simplistic, one dimensional, had a short finish and though technically nothing ‘wrong’, it was wildly overwhelmed by the other wines in the table. I suspect on its own and in a vacuum I would’ve enjoyed this more but not in this company. Definitely approaching the end of drinking window for me and on a graceful decline with not a whole lot of fruit or intensity or stuffing left. Last place of the 6 wines on the table that night.
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Delicious! No decant. Drank over 3 hrs. Enjoyed with a Wagu cap at Strip Steak LV. Noticeably better than my previous bottle! Much more fruit flavor and complexity. Drinking so finely now, hard to hold off!
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[Magnum] Classic nose, forest floor, damp earth, coffee grounds, and lead pencil above lush and ripe red fruit. Nose is terrific, signature Mouton with the lead pencil and super opulent fruit. Palate is maybe thinning out a touch and doesn’t deliver as much power and energy as it once did. Intoxicating nose, one of my favorites. A lovely sweetness to the red fruit. Rich but developing a softer silkier feel as the tannin integrates and yields to the ripeness.
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The 1989 Mouton has a savory, almost green, character with tobacco, cedar, and sous bois taking front stage to a fruit core of blackberry and raspberry. Wild strawberry on the palate is framed by supple tannins, everything still fresh and pure. Atypical 1989 but you get that Mouton profile, particularly of the heavy oak influence common in this period.
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A new year eve wine for 2020, a tough 2020! A typical mature BDX wine, but still had a lot of energies to go, just like us, should look ahead optimistically under this Corona Virus period. A dark opaque purple color, complex aroma and silky palate, minutes long after taste...still structured well and stayed young. A wine for celebration!
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Cork is in excellent condition. Decanted for 1 hr. before tasting.. Drank over 3 1/2 hrs. Delicious. Tannins are ultra fine. Aromas leaped from the glass. Plethora of aroma’s; pencil, smoky wood, cinnamon, moss, plum, roses...Started fading at the 2 hr mark in the decanter. Next bottle decant just to remove sediment and return to the bottle for consumption. Can go for another 5 yrs more with minimal improvement, in my opinion. Nice lengthy finale. Very enjoyable at this age.
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Decanted 2 hours. Elegant, balanced Bordeaux that shows ripe, dark fruits along with classic mature Bordeaux secondaries and is drinking well right now and unlikely to improve any further. Really enjoyed this tonight. A-
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My sense was is that more modest scores for this wine are because of what it is not versus what it is. It is not a typical beast. It is not classic mouton. It is not an over the top fruit bomb from 1989.
This wine is sexy. It had great perfumed feminine nose with red currents, black plums, cedar, lead pencil, tobacco Leaf, green peppercorns, the complexity goes on and on.
Tasted side by side with the 1988. It is much more fresh and expressive than the 88.
Anyone who doesn’t love this wine then send it my way!
Disappointing for a First Growth. The issue here is the over-riding sensation of greenness on the nose and palate. The spicy cassis is fresh and straddles the line between sweet and tart, and you also find strong notes of cedar and tobacco. But the intensity of the herbal and pepper notes in the finish really stand out. Lovers of those characteristics will enjoy this more than I did.
An excellent wine that is still drinking well. The oak is starting to mellow and nice flavors of black cherry and currant with what seemed like a light touch of tobcco. A long balanced finish with a little spicy herbs. Still has quite a bit of life left in it.
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Posting an old note drank in 2012, light medium red with bricking, cedar box nose with black fruits, earth, complex, medium bodied, just lovely, long, powerful, balanced, intriguing
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Great bottles to have on Mother's Day with tge family. Steaks, potatoes, asparagus and Bordeaux. Opened both bottj3s at the same time to see how each oxidized and opened in thecsame air. Each bote decanted for 2 hours, too. One was ready yo go soonercso we started there with the appetizers of brie, summer sausage, melin and prosciutto. Sevind bottle was ready to go with diner an hour later. The best thing about well crafted wines is that the wine speaks for itself, no need for flowery verbiage, just content smiles and nods that say it all. Amazing nose, perfect balance of acidity and floral notes, all the typical mouth feels and unctuousness of a premier cru Left Bank Bordeaux. Merci Beaucoup!
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Good fill, but cork was depressed and for the first time ever I lost the cork into the bottle , it just slipped in at the softest touch (was using screw part of Durant)... color fine , minimal sediment but unfortunately some funk on the nose initially but blew off after 20 minutes or so, the initial tightness opened up and the nose revealing hints of blue fruit, anis, leather, on palate light to mid weight, secondary fruit, some black pepper, tobacco on finish, some pencil shaving, short finish. Overall very nice Bordeaux but not the greatest mouton.
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With all that's going on right now, it felt like the right time to revisit the very wine that started it all for me.
Mold cap under the capsule, which was a good sign, but the cork was saturated all the way to the top - a less good sign. Decanted for an hour before service, which was necessary to let some bottle funk blow off, if nothing else. In the glass, a lovely auburn-tinted dark ruby, overall still quite youthful in appearance. On the nose, cedar, tobacco, a hint of mint, and more of that barnyard that never quite went away. On the palate, really opulent and unctuous in texture, almost in Sauternes territory in that respect. Black currants and cedar lead the way for the flavor profile, with potpourri and a bit of oak on a somewhat oxidized finish.
Certainly not what I remember from 2001, but then again, you can never really go home, just visit once in a while. Perhaps that's for the best. Thankfully, we'll have a couple more tries later on...
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Mid-weight palate. Lots of blackberries/cassis. Lovely acid and quite firm tannin (which built over the glass). A touch of black pepper and finishes with anise.
Wonderfully balanced, aristocratic bordeaux.
I would say this is in its secondary (not tertiary) phase.
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It’s been a few years since I tried this wine. In my memory I thought this would have been a big wine, very vanilla driven. Glad to revisit this again after 5 years. Not only it has toned down a lot, it also added a lot more complexity.
I was really impressed with the palate, very broad and very complex, multi-layers of sophistication, great length. Certainly it has improved tremendously compared to the last bottle I had 5 years ago. Kudos to Mouton! more tasting note in finewines.com.sg
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Pitted against an '86 which wasn't a clean bottle. This particular example was frustratingly youthful and had a lot of blackberry fruit and vanilla aromatic notes, but hadn't rounded out into the meaty opulence that '89 Mouton delivers nicely. Normally these are pretty bombastic and fleshy, but this was tense and dark, which weighs in favour of its cold dark cellar, but which made for a less accessible wine at the expense of development. Still really love this wine.
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Bordeaux 1989 - 30years on in large formats (Luzern): From Double Magnum. This wine made no apologies for being very showy. The nose was the most captivating with and overtly farmyard side to it and lots of oak spices. Hello here I am, lots of toast, smoke but also tons of dark fruit to carry the obvious oak treatment and extraction. Plush palate but not Napaesque, stayed both on the volume and freshness very much in Bordeaux territory. A great showing. For me among the WOTN with Latour, Haut Brion, VCC.
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Bordal chez Albert (Vega, Ausone, Haut-Brion, Mouton...) (Chermignon): Aveugle. Belle couleur rubis foncé, brillante. A mis du temps, 1 heure, avant de s’ouvrir sur des arômes qu’on associe souvent à un Mouton à maturité, boîte à cigares, havane, cassis. La bouche est caressante, le vin est de constitution moyenne, complexe, avec des tanins polis. 93+
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Dark, concentrated black cherry in color. Lustrous. Nose: initial nose on decant had beautiful wet tobacco, graphite and dark fruits. Expressive right out of the bottle. Two hour decant. Nose gives signature mint enveloping cassis, black licorice, graphite and cedar notes. On the palate, an amazing depth and purity of black fruit. Great balance of youthful acidity and polished tannins. At 4 hours also shows ripe red fruits. Incredibly clean wine. This is a powerful Mouton. At 30 years it is spry. A 50+ year wine for sure.
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This stuff is what dreams are made of. Still pretty youthful, showing almost no bottle aging characteristics. The structure is impressive with high acidity and still moderately ample and grippy tannins. Long and layered finish, just right to wrap up another day in paradise.
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Top 89 Bordeaux (Noizé, London): Rich and quite dense. Very showy and sexy when double decanted 4hrs ago, now merely rich, it the palate has put on weight. Good blackcurrant core. Lots of wine here. Just so harmonious.a bit more open and obvious, but hey... *****
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Not blind suprisingly strong, typical Mouton nose. In the middle of Primary and tertiary Aromas. Black currant meets eucalyptus. Second bottle very similar. same case. 96
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Very aromatic, good and long lasting palette. Dark ruby color. First phase is black fruit forward. Cedarwood and mushroom that reflect raintree forest character. Cassis and leather notes sometimes. Hint of cocolate and coffee towards the end. 2 hours decanting will reach its peak.
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Bordal chez PG (100% Bordeaux) (Collex-Bossy (Genève)): Une des robes les plus légères de la soirée, presque rubis, encore brillant. Au nez, les arômes se dégagent plus lentement, il leur faut une heure pour émerger complètement, tabac blond, fruits rouges, coco. En bouche, le vin joue la finesse, la persistance, la complexité et une belle harmonie. Très jolie finale, longue et soyeuse. Tiendra encore 10 ans sans problème.
Very elegant and graceful, beautiful first growth finesse but not the power or density I had anticipated from such a famous vintage. However, bouquet is exquisite and the wine is deceptively long and fine.
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This wine is drinking beautifully now. On the nose, gravel, shaved pencil, earthiness, tar, and dark berries, on the palate, very left bank with strong minerals, gravel, soil, yet elegantly balanced with chewy gentle tannin and good acidity. I enjoy this vintage of Mouton as there was a elegant touch on the palate to the long finish. Good to drink now.
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Epicé, cuir, sous-bois. Grande longueur. Décanté une heure. Beaucoup de dépôts, mais tient vraiment bien la route après 30 ans. Bien meilleure impression que lors de ma dernière dégustation il y a quelques semaines.
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For Clare's B-day. Brought by Nathan. Slow ox'ed but not sure for how long. From memory. Cigar box, cedar, pencil shavings, cassis, red berries, herbs, and a bit of earth, and still some mild tannins in elegant frame. Lively in the mouth with excellent acids. This was really beautiful and drinking so well.
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Decanted for 2 hours. Slight brick tones, but still a dark red color. Aroma was ethereal with trademark Mouton exotic (truffle, damp earth) and lots of pencil lead/Cabernet in Pauillac. Some brown sugar and tertiary notes. Flavor was flawless with lots of black berry and dark cherry flavors, Cabernet spice and rusticity. Virtually no tannin grip. This wine is in it’s prime! We drank from a Magnum that had a slight leak. So, I’m sure any bottles out there without any leakers will be prime!
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A game of two halves. The first bottle was Brett Central- pretty funky and barnyardy on the nose but superb on the palate. The second was sublime. Stunning dark fruit and sous bois nose with refined tannins and a gorgeous silky finish. Simply, simply lovely.
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High IN fill. Black berries, tobacco, graphite, and most complex nose -- regal; structured and youthful, tannic finish, balanced and long. Complex finish. A very youthful bottle -- holding even more promise.
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Le ménisque commence à brunir, il accuse son âge. Nez très puissant de bois grillé, goudron, réglisse, humus, et quelque chose de frais comme du fenouil (?) L'impression se confirme en bouche mais la puissance est un peu étouffée.
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Just below the neck fill. Decanted for about an hour, back in the bottle and slow ox at the restaurant for another hour. Almost no sediment. Similar notes to MC below. I think this bottle could have used a little more air. The wine was a little thin in the mid palate at first, but really gained body during the meal. The last glass was the best. Beautiful mature Bordeaux.
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Intense and fiery aromas with deliciously mature tobacco, delicious blackcurrant and light mint. Really classic and great aroma.
Concentrated yet delightful silky mouthfeel. Beautiful fruity blackberries and blackcurrants. Lightly sweetened tobacco. Mature great tannins. Long slightly creamy finish. Great balanced Mouton. Maybe the little x factor is lacking, but well preserved, this is a great wine. 96 points.
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Alias/Classic Imports label on the front. Just below base neck and cork saturated to the top. Decanted 2.5 hours. Nice, mature, classic Bordeaux. This had good fruit, minerals, some earth, and nice balance. Not a wow wine, but good with food. Not worth the current price IMO, but should be around for some time. A-
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Bordeaux 1989 (@ Monarh): Complex bouquet with earth, coffee and mocha. On the palate chocolate, beautiful dark berries, autumn impressions, some sweetness, juicy acidity and still powerful robust tannin. Still a future until at least 2022.
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Goudron, réglisse, bois grillé, faisandé, terre... grande complexité. En bouche, très viril, peu tannique, équilibré. Grande longueur. J’avais prélevé deux verres avec Coravin un an avant, sans conséquence, visiblement.
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Private barbecue (@Private location): Complex and quiet intense nose with Tobacco, leather, pencil shavings, cassis , spices and a little floral perfume. Still very closed and not fully developed. On the palate a perfect, but still undeveloped tannin structure. Silky texture, lots of complex flavors, spices, red and dark fruit. Very good balance, lots of pressure and tension. Already great to drink, but it screams to me with every sip: Let me sleep at least for another decade! Great experience though! Great potential: 95++
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Medium ruby-black with light brown hues; lovely Mouton nose off the bat with dark pipe tobacco, exotic spices, dried cassis, some underbrush and smoke, leather chair; silky and smooth on the palate, medium fine tannins like espresso sediment, i balance, excellent structure without being overbearing. Qute long. This is hitting its prime right about now and will go for a long time. At the Royce at the Langham w/Yarom, Ron, Arnie, Larry, Terry. after a couple hours turned a little austere, not helped much by comparing with Abreu and Grange.
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Beautifully aged Mouton with amazing wet forest soil and leathery notes in the nose and soft but very precise red fruit notes on the palate. Very elegant body and a beautiful structure. Medium Long finish. Needs some air (60min) to open up completely.
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Complex and intense bouquet which unwound itself right from the start. Tobacco, leather, pencil shavings, cassis , spices and a little floral perfume was some of the salient nuances. It’s was also rather smoky for the 1st 2hrs which I enjoyed throughly The palate however took its own sweet time (3hrs) to show its nice cassis, liquorice and tobacco with a ultra Long finish. The nose had a very distinct quality to it and was clearly a cut above the rest I had but while the palate was good, it’s just lack that special touch that one would expect from a 1st growth. Overall, while this bottle was not the best example I believe as the cork was soaked right through but still it gave me a very enjoyable and memorable experience just not the hedonistic kind that one would expect at this price point. Let’s just say that this wine wooed me but did not wowed me.
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This has a super red fruited entry with some leanness on the palate. Similar to the bottle we had a few weeks ago it lacks the complexity and heft of the best 1989s but it is a delightful bottle of claret if you are rich enough to drink it on a regular basis. Paul described it as a good luncheon claret which is a little unfair in my opinion. My seventh equal wine of the night at our vertical.
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Superb. Opened 3 hrs ahead but only a 30 min decant. Lovely fragrance and balance. Still has nice structure underlying moderately open fruit. Everything on its place. An outstanding example. Worthy of its pedigree. With its structure and acidity it should easily weather another 10-15+ years.
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Decanted for 30 mins before serving and enjoy over a 3 hour dinner. 89 Mouton is drinking beautifully with cassis, tea leaf, tobacco, cedar and blood. Palate has round fruit with softened and silky tannins. The first growth class and texture are well refected. A classic Paulliac that has the balance between power and finesse. It is drinking well with many years left. The wine is 1 point above last time as decanting really helps in bringing the best out of this. 93-94
I have received 2-3 comments on instagram saying this is a weird mouton vintage which I absolutely disagree. I think I have tried enough vintages of mouton to say this is a good classic mouton (let alone the legendary vintages like 82,86). This is perhaps the most underrated Mouton vintage, showing much better than 95 and 96 at this point which are supposed to be the good (or better) vintages for Mouton after 89. Happy to seek out for it again. But in terms of qpr, for a 89 bordeaux, lynch bages and palmer are more competitive choices.
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Bordeaux BYOB #14: fully mature but still alert and powerful fruit. Cedar, grass, pencil lead, cigarr, black currant, coffee and hints of mushrooms on the nose. Some meaty notes. Elegant and rich body, fine tuned and sophisticated, nice acidity, huge complex wine. Perfect to drink now but will develop beautifully for 5+ years. 96p, votes 8. My contribution to this BYOB.
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On the nose: Typical Bourdeaux, stable, leather, soil, cigarrbox, cedar. On the palate: Leather, cigarr, soil, stable, very nice balanced acidity. The fruit is still very living and the wine is in harmony. Medium + finish
Always a pleasure to try this kind of wines
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Deep red-violet, albeit fairly transparent, if that makes any sense. Macerated rose and violet petals with red fruits on the nose. Thin-bodied, slightly sour notes of raspberry and a general touch of umami in the finish. Quite delicious, especially the finish, which gives a sense of satisfaction meriting the high score.
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Co-hosted a wine dinner with the famous Riddy Roberts Enjoyed a line up of 88 & 89 First Growths. This Mouton showed best - After 3 hour decant displayed terrific Ruby hue, great legs, mouth filling cherry, and damp forest floor. Finish lasted 40+ seconds.
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Beautiful leather bound book color upon decanting. As decanted presented with aromas of leather & cedar. Decanted 1 Hour. Outstanding legs. Balanced concentration producing a smooth flavorful polished wine. Flavor of heavy cherries. Great finish with balanced tannins. This wine is ready to be consumed. Decant and enjoy.
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No formal notes. Served (as always, blind) next to the Mouton 1990. The nose here is even better and more delicious and classic. Great streaks of cedar wood, tobacco leafs, fine cigar wrapper leafs, truffles, Pauillac gravel, earth, leather, dark berries, black currant and black currant leafs with a fine dose of ethereal barnyard/stable or the extra lovely spice. The nose of the 1990 is sure a fine one, but this is much better. The palate is simply superb. Silky, yet powerful, with great clean fruit, opening up to show a very fine spectrum of layers and layers of fruits & berries, secondary, more mature notes, with lots of Perigord truffles, earth, dark fruits, cigar box, mushrooms, wet and decaying leafs, tobacco, some fine chocolate. A very complex and extraordinary Mouton, with superb balance. Perhaps the best I have had even? Anyway, a simply great Mouton entering a very fine drinking window. Still room for improvement, but amazing where is it right now.
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Consistent with past notes. A particularly ripe and juicy bottle tonight, perfect at an old NYC steakhouse. Opulent and hedonistic drinking, but still has nuanced Mouton character... lead pencil and damp leather.
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Garnet core, quite a fade at the rim; notes of terracotta, warm spice, evolved mature cedar & cigar and heady berried fruits. Quite exotic; very smooth palate, lovely textural tannins. A complex and flavoursome mouthful and I'd say peaking now, no need to wait longer. A little drying on the finish and in light of this I'd drink sooner rather than later
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Decanted for 3 hours and seemed to plateau near the end of this time frame. Still very structured with moderate tannin. Palate wise dominated by eucalyptus, wet cedar, lead, damp soil, menthol, aged leather, and baked blackberry. Has plenty of time but secondary notes currently dominate. I would start drinking.
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Classy classic. Great array of aromes on the nose, from dark fruit to old leather, wet forest floor and overripe lillies. On the palate there are hardly any tannins. Tiny bit austere, marking this to be no voloptuous wine but a classic. Russian ballet rather than modern dance. Very enjoyable, a real treat and an honour to drink this, considering the grapes formed when Europe was still divided and matured after the Berlin wall had fallen.
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Pretty much agree with the notes from DCWINO on May 10th. Youthful color and beautiful aromas of cassis, cedar, and dark chocolate. The palate was rich and elegant with silky tannins and a sweet, fruit-candy roll-up finish. My only complaint was that the bottle was empty and didn't get a second glass!
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Mouton Rothschild Vertical Dinner (Vaucluse): Lead pencil and tobacco leaf. Rich and meaty. Palate is in line with past experiences with dense and rich dark berry and currant juice, textured with good classic Bordeaux earth. My gateway drug - consistently love this...
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Much richer than the 90 or 88 in next glass. More fruit and the nose would indicate a younger wine. Rich and expressive. Best in the flight of 90, 89 and 88.
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Mouton dinner with Philippe Dhalluin and Bernard Burtschy (Taberna del Alabardero, Washington D.C.): Youthful expressive nose displaying bright red fruit and cassis, very floral, sweet spices, dark milk chocolate, cedar and peppery mineral. Beautifully integrated palate, medium concentration, silky and polished, bright acidity and silky tannins and a long harmonious finish. I actually like the 89, for the harmony and balance. It is not an impressive but a classy Mouton.
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This has evolved beautifully. Solid, nearly opaque dark ready, browning near the rim. Excellent viscosity. The nose showed a bit of metallic funk to begin, but it quickly blew off to reveal nice mulberry and plum fruit with graphite and minerals. Some menthol. The tannins are resolved, leaving a smooth, sexy wine in their wake. The flavors are pretty, fine and hint at sweetness as well. Seamless in the mouth as it glides across the palate. Slightly dry on the finish, but should keep for at least a few years. That said, this wine has peaked and should be enjoyed in the near term. 4-13-16-8: 91/100.
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From magnum and served against over 20 other high end wines at Chez Moi. This stole the show and was voted clear WOTN. A very pleasant surprise as I thought Mouton underperformed in 1989. Insider secret, buy this wine.
Classic aromas of mature Bordeaux, cigar box, forest floor, dried black cherry that carried through on the palate. Not faded, but instead rich and well balanced with wonderful spices and nuance throughout. A wow wine. Was decanted for sediment and back into bottle for about 2 hours prior to serving. Special stuff.
A classical Bordeaux, a lot of cassis, leather, earthy, cedarbox, middleweight body, fine tannins, and good acidity strurcture, for me in his drinking window, long finish with spicy notes, some mints in the aftertaste
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It's been a few years since I tried this wine. In my memory I thought this would have been a big wine, very vanilla driven. Glad to revisit this again after 5 years. Not only it has toned down a lot, it also added a lot more complexity.
I was really impressed with the palate, very broad and very complex, multi-layers of sophistication, great length. Certainly it has improved tremendously compared to the last bottle I had 5 years ago. Kudos to Mouton!
Check out my other tasting notes here: finewines.com.sg
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Dinner with Zachys crew (Blacksalt, Washington DC): Youthful expressive nose displaying cassis, strong lead pencil, bitter chocolate, cedar and earth. Excellent concentration, cassis and lead pencil driven palate impression, good acidity and mineral presence, and a long cassis and cedar driven finish. It displays excellent concentration but a bit masculine and not terribly complex. This is a very solid Mouton.
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Detta är verkligen en klassisk elegant Bordeaux. Ljuvlig doft med mörk elegant frukt, svampskog, piptobak, blyerts. Otroligt ren och snygg med fin syra och silkiga tanniner med väldigt långt slut
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Such a great wine! Medium to dark garnet. Cedar, ink, graphite, spice, coffee and red berry fruit on the nose. Medium to full-bodied, perfectly balanced and complex with a long aftertaste. At a great stage to drink right now but can keep further. Exotic and elegant. A wow wine.
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One of the best first growths I have ever tasted - which naturally and by default means one the finest wines in general I have had the pleasure to drink.
We did not decant but the wine was ready to go from the start. The aroma was rich, sweet, sexy and seductive and it did evolve in our glasses throughout the evening. We had this wine along two lauded vintages of Chateau Montrose, 1989 and 1990. These wines though also remarkable were more austere, sterner while Mouton was as they say 'exotic'. At the peak of its maturity it offers notes of chocolate, coffee, earth, spices, menthol, rare wood, cedar, decaying forest flora. Actually I cannot describe this wine, it was just so intoxicating.
On the palate it was quite full bodied with velvety texture, supple tanins, sweet, flavorful, long. A perfect wine... We hit the bull's eye with this wine! Actually for me preferable to the two more highly praised vintages of Montrose with the caveat that the 1990 Montrose has not yet reached its peak.
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Drank 3 bottles for special dinner 1989 Mouton, 1987 Lafite, and 2007 Qintessa. Mouton smoothest, strong earthy tobacco nose and taste. Probably several years past its prime; Lafite could even get better - more complexity. Quintessa outstanding fruit - hold another 5 years to balance out.
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Small pour from a bottle that had been decanted for 30 minutes. Mature profile but still fresh with good vigour. The nose showed leather, tobacco, olive and a hint of cassis. The palate was a touch younger tasting than I expected following the nose, full, bright berry notes with cocoa, cigar and an olive brine. Lovely wine.
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wow had this one a few years ago and it was too young had these wines since primieur demented drank beatifully full of fruit no acidity ,wonder if i should hold the rest or just drink
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Decanted an hour, and enjoyed over the next hour wit dinner. Similar to my last note - classic Bordeaux. Maybe a touch thin, but I still really enjoy it with food. Only nit is there is a slight dryness on the finish. Not worth the current price, but certainly is a very good Bordeaux for my palate. Drink now. A-
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PNP. Bu seul après le repas. Un vin de finesse, avec encore un peu de tannins et d'acidité donc pourrait être gardé quelques années, mais super en ce moment - pour moi l'éponyme d'un vieux Bordeaux de classe. On est principalement en tertiaire (cuir, champignons, mousse) avec une robe brique claire, mais il persiste du fruit derrière. Un bel équilibre, une belle longueur. Très beau.
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First Growths at Capital Grille (Capitalle Grille, Mpls, MN): Very dark red/purple color. This had gotten a couple hours of air. Drank 1 glass over 90 minutes plus. This bottle just wasn;t as forthcoming as we'd have liked. Still good, but still pretty enveloped in wood and firm tannin. The nose is in good shape, red fruits and pencil lead on top the wood. The palate is more dark and brooding with the wood still gripping this tightly.
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Base neck. Classic Bordeaux. Decanted 45 minutes, and drank very well with food. Maybe a touch thin, and possible more air would have helped, but very enjoyable. A-
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Tasters Guild International; New York City Guild (NYC): Drank at 1989 bordeaux tasting at Tasters Guild in NYC. Wonderfully expressive nose of lead pencil, cedar and earth--best nose of any wine this evening. Still some sweet black cherries on the palate, with lots of cedar, leather, and soil. Some funky barnyard elements here too, with great depth & concentration & richness. A delicious, rich, densely concentrated and fleshy wine that is in excellent form. Hugely satisfying this nite.
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BYO Dinner (Tocqueville): Similar notes to last time, the lead pencil and damp earth is just awesome. Another really strong showing here, too young if one complaint but just so hedonistic right now. Juicy red cedar-laden fruit. Served this blind to a room of fairly impressive tasters, appellation and vintage were called and one real pro nailed it. Love this every time.
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Classic Mouton nose of lead pencil, red cedar, damp leather, damp soil, and some powerful black currant. Exactly what one should hope for out of this, showing great construction and a satisfying bit of development while retaining power and potential. So dense and flavorful. Tannins have actually totally integrated as well with only a bit of grip. Fruit is still a little sappy and syrupy. A beautiful showing, hard not to love right now but can be revisited in a few more years for hopefully even better results.
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Verticale du Château Mouton Rothschild: Un nez de viande et de fruit rouge (cassis). La bouche est ronde et grasse, ce qui m'évoque le 1989, même si c'est celui qui parait le plus jeune. Elle offre une belle fraicheur, avec concentration et élégance. Un vin assez gourmand, d'une belle concentration, fruité et fin à la fois. Délicieux. 94 pts
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Wow, ce vin fut magnifique! Un nez envoutant et raccoleur, tout ce qui me rappelle la raison pour laquelle j'aime les bordeaux avec de l'âge. Épices fines, tabac, mûres et tannins très agréables en bouche. Ce vin peut encore évoluer, mais il est présentement en très bonne forme.
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1989 vs. 1990 Bordeaux (Vaucluse): 89 vs 90 tasting. The 90 was flawed so no comparison but the 89 was a beautiful wine. A very elegant nose with deep saturated cherry flavors.
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Deep ruby in colour. Medium+ acidity and medium tannin. Earth, pencil lead, cedar and black fruits. Tasted during Chinese steamboat. First mouton I ever tried. First love.
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Medium-light crimson color, with mature bricking throughout. Nose of cotton candy and lemon juice to start. Two hours in the decanter allows this to evolve a dark, oily aroma of shoe polish. The palate has the monolithic smoothness common to mature Mouton Rothschild, with neverending black fruit expressed in seamless totality. However, this is less dense and persistent than the 1985, and does not contain multitudes like the endlessly amorphous 1982. Tannins are resolved; this is optimally mature. I'd enjoy this over the next five years.
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Big nose of cigar smoke, coffee, chocolate, pencil, and capsicum right out of the gate. A small quibble is a touch too much toast on the oak, which is a shame as it steals a bit of the nose, doesn't it? The green notes quieted down after a bit and some more fruit came to the fore but the coffee & Cuban cigar notes remained dominant. Lots of muscle and swagger, even for Mouton. But lurking... there's some delicious mineral-tinged lavender and plump currant fruit. It's a faint suggestion of what you can find in the 82 but it's there. If you turned those notes up and turned the capsicum down, you'd really have a star. Do other bottles show it more? Will it be more apparent in 5 years?
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Drank from an imperial. Nose had leather, tobacco, soil, graphite and sous bois. Palate was smooth and silky with some fruit left. A very balanced and mature bordeaux.
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2015 New York Wine Experience Trip; 10/19/2015-10/27/2015 (New York City, NY): Back when this wine was released, there were some critics who got it right, and some who were embarrassingly wrong. Now hitting its stride, the '89 Mouton (a blend of 78% Cabernet Sauvignon, 14% Cabernet Franc and 8% Merlot) is an evolved, complex wine laden with plum, leather, cigar box, sage, pickling spice, truffle and cocoa. Full-bodied and with surprisingly good acidity (considering the vintage), it has seamless alcohol and still has a fair amount of sweet tannins. The mid-palate presence is impressive and the finish is very long. Stunning stuff, this is one which should drink well over the next 2-3 decades. Drink now-2040.
1989 Vintage Blind Tasting Event - Wine #2 - This had more layers than the other wines from my notes with peppers, barnyard and dark fruits. Was expansive on the palate with back end tannins and a long finish. The layers showed is quality but this also was in the middle of the pack for me blind.
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Clean and clear with medium garnet colour, developing.
On the nose it's medium+ intense w/aromas of: dark plums, ceder, tobacco, medicine cabin, oak, liquorice, meat, red pepper and some herbs. Developing
on the palate it has medium acidity, tannins and % and medium+ body and flavour intensity w/aromas of: tobacco, ceder, dark plums, red pepper, tobacco, oak, medicine cabin, much like the nose. Long aftertaste.
very well balanced, complex and insanely concentrated, very much more intese than expected when 12.5%. Incredible long finish and this has potential for many more years, difficult to believe that it was 26 years old. only thing i missed was a bit more acidity, but still outstanding world class quality, 95p
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Left Bank, Right Bank, Left Side, Left Coast — 1989 Vintage Blind Tasting Event — Wine 2 (3 Liter): Reticent bouquet from the outset, but so much stuffing on the palate. Could not get a handle on it in the glass it was served in, found the largest Bordeaux glass available and BOOM!...it came to life, showing the finest elements of Pauillac terroir. Knew it was the Mouton. Not my WOTN (tied for third), but certainly the best made.
Brought about 12 ounces home to evaluate the following day. It is still a big wine, somewhat dense, showing considerable greenness. It paired stunningly with a well seasoned (fresh rosemary, basil, and cilantro) charcoal grilled beef patty.
In this format, the wine probably has ten to twelve years of life ahead of it. 93-94.
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Base neck fill. Decanted about 90 minutes, this was just spot on what you would want from a Bordeaux. Lead pencil, cool fruit, structure in the background at this point, this wine was great with food and also a nice way to wind down the evening. Should hold for a while. Wish I had more. A-/A
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Mature red. Nose shows dark espresso and horse saddle. Lots of herbal notes. Nice length and balance. Smooth tannins. This was a very mature bottle but still a great wine.
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Great color, tarry berried nose, full of life, 60+ second finish, drank with a prime rib, went wonderfully, had in the company with a La Mission and a Margaux. A totally great dinner.
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Big and round, with a pile of cassis and a backbone of iron, with inflections of red meat. Not the tremendous depth of the 96 but a big, solid wine with low alcohol and just enough raciness to keep it all balanced and classic. All fruit and cedar and iron. Delicious
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Imbibed in Provence. Deep robe and garnet rim. This wine evolved and improved in the glass over the course of a couple of hours. First dip into the glass and we got a whiff of lead pencil and tobacco leaf. Quite reserved on the palate, and expectations of more stuffing were high. All that said, it came around and just took a tad longer. Hints of cassis, cedar, tobacco and a touch of umami. Quite rounded and medium bodied. Overall, this bottle could be characterised as exuding elegance over power.
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First Growths, Yquem, 100+Madeira (John V.'s): Really a nice wine, but outclassed by the company it was in. Ruby in color with slight browning. The nose has a nice Bordeaux funk with some dried red cherries. A little bit of cedar with some pencil lead. This is consistent with the other Mouton's on the table if a bit past prime. There is a nice complexity here although it is a bit soft on the palate. Still some fruit left and the tannins seem resolved. Nice balance. These should be drunk up soon.
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Dinner at Otto e Mezzo (Otto e Mezzo, Alexandra House, Central, Hong Kong): Decanted for around 3 hours. Beautiful bright-jewelled translucent dark ruby red colour. Nose is Wow!.....low bass notes of black Puh Ehr tea, chinese dried mushrooms, forest floor, cedar trees, graphite, pencil shavings....hedonistic.....very First Growth and resonates inside your sinuses then just keeps opening up more and more. Brilliant. Palate is still quite tannic and young, very structured but with super graphite linearity, a fugue on pencil sharpenings and a purity of black berry and currant fruits. Brooding, growling, hibernating resonance......this needs another 5-10 years to really open up. You drink this for the nose at the moment. Lovely.
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The wine had only two hours in the carafe, so in the start the tannins were still a bit severe (I thought it was a super-2004), but in the glass the development continued. Lots of black fruit in the bouquet supported by the delicate cedarwood hallmark of Mouton. Full bodied, very vigorous, noticable tannins and everything in the right place. This wine still has the power to continue for a decade. With more air up to 97 point? A big surprise from Loek during a perfect dinner in De Bokkedoorns.
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Beautiful wine, though the '89 Mission Haut Brion slightly beat this out for wine of the night for me. Dark, rich with absolutely no signs of age, this took quite awhile to open up. There was the rich tobacco and dark fruit on the finish, some leather. A nice richness.
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Pretty dope wine here. Fresh and lively, with cedar, dusty red fruit. I wish I could re-taste this today and experience it another time. And like with the 88 Vieux Telegraph we had alongside it, there was no obvious age or age-like characteristics here. Just really alive and drinking great.
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Quite dark red. Beautiful nose, coffee bean, black currant, bell pepper, mushrooms and house dust. Delicious earthy dark fruit and mineral flavours. The finish is long and still fairly tannic.
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A Comparative Bordeaux blends tasting (France, NZ, US etc) with Peter: A profound nose of dark cherries, cassis, blackcurrant, cedar and graphite, a clear marker for this wine's class. Also notes of spice, dry underbrush and tobacco leaf, showing some development. A lovely palate, very complex and detailed. Still seeming quite primary, there is excellent structure and acidity here. The wine has a freshness, intensity, elegance and a leaner style I really like. It has beautifully integrated tannins. Superb. Everyone recognised this as a First Growth Bordeaux. In its optimal drinking window now, I thought. Cabernet Sauvignon 78%, Cabernet Franc 14% and Merlot 8%.
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95-97: stunning Mouton -- tannins have eased, but the acid and fruit are still there, making me think this wine has much life and some improvement before peaking. Finish went on and on, and balance was impeccable. Outstanding.
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Bordeaux dinner - first growths, blancs and d'Yquem. Bottle, fill and cork all good -(label water damaged). Excellent and one of the best tonight. Beautiful aromatics with blackberry, earth etc.. This was breathing for about 4 hours before dinner. Should last a few more decades, but superb now.
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VHS/TS, decanted 2 hours. Dark red for its age, with a wonderful nose of forest floor, red fruits, lead pencil. Balanced wine, showing very nice fruit, but pure Bordeaux, with only a slight drying note on the finish to keep it from great for me. A-
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The Sampler London Kensington (The Sampler London Kensington): Half bottle. Nose of forest floor, cedar, leather, leafy, blackcurrant, eucalyptus, cigar box. Palate of cedar, cigar box, blackcurrant leaf, earth, cherry, tobacco, leather. Wonderful.
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This bottle was perfectly stored, the cork was moldy and super spongy. after an hour in the decanter the room started to smell of violets, earth spice, raspberry, blackberry, and pencil shavings. This Mouton is feminine and delicate, and differs hugely from the exotic, muscular Mouton produced nowadays. It offers a graceful palate, charming and multilayered with great complexity. The intensity is lighter than I expected. This wine is in a lovely place right now! 95 points
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Decanted for two hours and could have gone much longer. Forward nose of dark fruit, leather, herbs and a mineral quality. More dark fruit and a bit of smoke on the palate. Big and robust, this still seemed tight. Nice grip on the long finish. Needs a few years.
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A private dinner at a friend's (Amsterdam): Paired with Mouton 1978. Wonderfully rich and warm style, typically Mouton, attractive, initially the wine feels rather light mid-palate but this fills out nicely in the glass, the tannins stick out a bit initially but they soften with aeration as the wine comes together, good flavour intensity; very good length.
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Cornucopia - Christmas Wimps (La Trompette, Chiswick): Youthful, pure cedary blackcurrant fruit, note of vanilla. Classy and composed on the palate, with very refined tannins, more cedar and blackcurrant but no huge complexity or interest, at least at this stage. ***1/2.
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Very similar to 2 years ago and again opened on our anniversary- 10/1/89. Garnet with minimal brick at the edge. It actually improved over the hour it was open. Soft sexy texture on the palate, it has notes of cassis, blackberry, pencil, spicebox, tobacco, and coffee. Lingers very nicely. It would be pretty easy to overpower this with intense food -- keep it simple! And don't wait too long.
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I have consumed four bottles of the 1989 Château Mouton-Rothschild in the last twelve months, and all of them have been to varying degrees disappointing. At this tasting, while it was certainly a more enjoyable wine than the 1989 Lafite, and the best bottle I have yet encountered, with boisterous aromas of blackcurrant and plum sauce, it lacked the flavor authority, length and complexity of a great vintage of Mouton. Mouton did not introduce a second wine until 1993, so perhaps lack of selection explains it?
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Top of shoulder. Cork is wet. Dark red, mahogany edge. Dark fruit, tea, leather, cassis, flowers. Red fruit, green olives, pencil shavings. Well concentrated and steely. Light to medium body and a little dry. Long finish! In a beautiful spot but no need to hurry.
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This Wine of Chateau MOUTON Rothschild 1989 from the "Year of Mauerfall" breaking down the Wall of east and West Germany ... by the way ;-)
is in it´s own way a surprise !
at the BEGINNING:
colour: not very thick but ruby couloured and simple "old School Wine" nose: not very obsessiv like the taste: from the beginning very noble, simple but noble !
taste round, like the very aromatic apple peal , sitting in a meadow of ripe apple trees ... and the smell of falling down ripe apples...
After 1 hour : the SMELL is getting more intensive ! addings of: tabacco, sandle wood, under brush in the woods, EARTHY and some very round spices of a basket of lush fruits - very sexy and ELLEGANT ! ° ° °
You won´t get enought !
After half a day -... and so good Jazzy VINYL Music Duke Ellington / Count Basie / or even Haitink 10 Mahler´s Symphonies .. This Wine should never stopp to pour out of this wonderful bottle !
96 Points of 100 Points tastable !
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Bordeaux 1989 Horizontal Tasting (Zurich): Clear intensive red. Nose of Black Tea, Coffee and herbs with hints of dark berries and leather. The wine has nice notes of graphite and a wonderful fruit (blue berries, plum) and chocolate. All is very elegant and balanced. No hurry to drink this beauty. Drink - 2030.
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Deep dark-red to purple. Lighter edges, but still dense and vital! Dark Black and Blue Berries. Mostly Cabernet driven Aromas of Black Currants and some Black Cherry. Eukalypt, some Sweetness and present secondary characteristics as Leather, Tabacco, Dark Chocolate and Moss. Intense Nose! Exciting and complex! Flavors of Black Currants with some bitter sweetness. Caramel, some Ginger and Leather. Finishes medium-long with vibrant acidity, round tannins and a play of Herbs and Spices. Feels slightly thin in the mouth, but very balanced and integrated, with a lot of power on the back palate! The wine was best after 4+ hours in the decanter. A solid Mouton from an average vintage or, in other words, a fantastic wine! Complex and Cabernet Sauvignon- focused with an immense nose, but with very elegant flavors. Good to drink now or to cellar for 5 to 10 (?) more years, as it still has a solid backbone of acidity and tannins. See more at cellartv.wordpress.com
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Stunning quality. This is sitting in a perfect place right now....balanced, elegant, complex, sexy. Wave upon wave of mint, dry soil, cherries, dark fruit. Super fine tannins and cut through with a fresh finish. Stunning.
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Mouton Vertical for my 35th B-day. 78-84-85-88-89. Opened 2.5 hours before serving. Paired with Risotto with Tartufo nero Pregiato. Deadly combination definitely a more modern cab based mouton compared to the 78. Nice dark shinny color. Lovely nose goes down so smooth seems like time slows down a bit when sampling this fine juice.
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Drank at our wine/food party last night. Brought over by a friend. Perfect cork. Decanted for 2 hours before serving. Really heavenly bouquet, awesome floral/fruit scents; then a very nice pure fruit/cassis on the tongue. Perhaps the wine of the evening along with '70 Forts de Latour.
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Like the 1988 Mouton alongside it, this had a funky nose that I could not fully enjoy. But again the palate came through to salvage the wine...in fact this one has quite a lovely palate presence. Fairly good fruit with some hints of Chinese plum sauce. The wine is good, but not great.
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Bordeaux Søskenparsmaking (Moss, Norway): Dyp rød med lett bruning i kanten. Flott, innsmigrende, eksotisk nese av plommer og syrefriske bær. Frisk, og saftig frukt med en elegant letthet og en flott syrestruktur. Lette tørre tanniner i avslutningen. Klassisk.
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La Commanderie de Bordeaux à Vancouver - 1988, 1989, 1990 Red Bordeaux (CinCin Restaurant): Medium red colour. There was a good dose of sulfur at first on the nose here but that eventually blew off and left a nice sweet and sour funk that I enjoyed while others at the table didn’t. There were also aromas of earth, spice and red fruits. On the palate this had classic flavours of plum, cassis and spice with firm tannins and lots of acidity. This well stored bottle was drinking quite youthfully and I think it needs another 5 years at least before all its potential is revealed. Excellent. 92+
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AHA - A dinner with Mouton (Washington DC - Mellon Auditorium): A little acidic for me - especially by comparison with the 86 and 03. Maybe its current state but I don't know that it has the ability to smooth out. Time will tell and a retaste in 5 years time will be interesting.
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Tart red berries and red apple with sour cherry character and peach - as well as liquorice, pencil shavings, lilacs, smoke and leather. Fullbodied and rather refreshing palate with mid-grippy tannins. Strawberries, currants and cranberries. Graphite, florality, bitter herbs, mustard seeds, liquorice, gunpowder and gravel. Long. Not as serious as it intends to be.
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Purchased in Nice, when opened the cork was wet to the top so was a little nervous considering I paid 400 Euro. Opened and left for 2 hours than decantered for 45 minutes. Was a garnet colour with a classic savory nose.However seemed to lack the full fruit I was expecting as still seemed to have high acid without any richness or enough fruit flavour. This wine is a lady, elegant and refined but lacked the punch to knock me out.
For a Chateau Mouton Rothschild , I was expecting better , so will keep searching for the Holy Grail.
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In forma davvero strepitosa, al naso inizialmente caffè e ribes scuro, poi frutta rossa polposa, tabacco dolce, ricco, pieno. Il tannino dolce e succoso, la bocca impressionante per ampiezza, molto lunga. Sembra quasi Haut Brion più che mouton.
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TN: End of year dinner; "Bring something good." (Beacon Restaurant): This was largely considered a dog for the vintage on release and it's never particularly impressed me the four or five times I've had it over the years and tonight it's showing as usual. It's rustic, high acid and chunky in style with an extracted feel to it, but without any richness or enough fruit to fully back it up. Red cherry and red currants on the palate with a touch of herb and earth as well as mint and coffee from the oak that still needs to integrate further. It's showing a bit better than the Ausone, but like the Ausone, given the vintage, Château and price, one expects a lot more. B+/A-.
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What an elegant and lovely Mouton! Tobacco, walnut, chocolate, roasted coffee, typical fruit of cassis, exotic spices. Even a bit of blueberry in the mouth. Ginger. Absolutely gorgeous chewy tannins. Not a power house but so elegant and Mouton like. A top wine!
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a stunningly youthful wine with plenty of life ahead. Give it some decent air and it will open up and reward greatly. Typical Mouton, what can I say. Not quite the 82, but still very very good.
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Purchased on release ($63!), le Cache storage, low neck fill, cork wet near to the top, and decanted just before serving. The color was a surprisingly intact garnet to the rim. It has a classic nose: earth, pencil shavings, some tobacco, spice, and coffee. On the palate the tannins are resolved, the fruit and earthy flavors compete for attention and then linger nicely. Needed more flesh/fruit/depth to score higher. Still it was great to have a wine from our wedding year on our anniversary.
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Cork broke during extraction causing tense moments, but bottle turns out OK. Surprisingly young and vibrant, lots of red fruit and very solky tannins, normally I prefer wine fuller body and minerals but this was rather pleasing in a way. Decanted in bottle for an hour before poring, and drank over 2 hours, sould have paced slower as it was still developing when we drank the last drop. It was the best bottle out of 4 opened that night, two 96 Angelus, and 95 lafite .
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Decanted 1 1/2 hours. Nose holds currant, dark cherry and deep incense and perfume. Violet. Toastiness. Some cedar. Exotic spices. Fennel. Aromas continually fire out of the glass. Such a complex, exotic nose. Finish lasts for over a minute. Gorgeous, haunting wine of incredible complexity.
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Great Class ! 1989 was a warm year but nothing cooked in this bottle. Refined tannins , good acidity and a luscious body. Lovely ! This wine will easily hold another 10 years but great right now !
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Deep portlike, hint of age, bright, nose of classic syrah!!! with complexity and layers of spice and organic trends, some forest floor. Superb entrance, all in balance spice and fruit, epic, ? Hermitage, vey long. Wine of the year for me
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Decanted for two hours. See previous notes. Top shoulder fill with seepage, I actually saw a drip and decided to pop open. Down to just one bottle, from a different provenance. After two days of Syrahs from Washington and California (which I love!), this statuesque beauty was a coming home of sorts. The mid-palate is very evident. I am noticing the floral quality even more, while the cassis seems somewhat muted. Eventhough the bottle was not in the finest of conditions, there was no lack-ability. Nothing vacuous at all and a lot of strength left. I still feel like this could use another year or two, with the wine just coming out of it's shell. I was saddened and happy to open her. This was a time where I had to remind myself that every wine is made to consume at some point. Drink 2012 -.
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Magnum Madness (New York, NY): Magnum. Rich and robust dark, ripe fruit. Wonderful fresh aromas with great fruit and spice. Long life ahead, 94-95 point potential for me.
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Tobacco, earth, spice, cassis, plums and forest aromatics started off the wine. Some tannins remain to be resolved in this traditionally made wine. The wine ends with a juicy mouthful of cassis, spice and blackberry. fruit.
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Blind '89's for a Monday.... (My house): Dark garnet, slight brick rim color. WHAT A NOSE!!! No funk, like the '89 Clerc Milon, deep deep spice box, dusty cedar, leather, smoked underbrush stems, dried berries, some coffee later on. Beautiful florals and seductive spices on the nose, that kept getting better and better, even as the bottle was last drained! Silky smooth in the mouth, yet still powerful....very complexed with the same flavors as the nose, as well as some mint, dried herbs....well balanced wine, still with room to grow. I knew this had to be the Mouton.....killer wine! My #1.
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(Had this the day after the '82 Mouton as a comparative and just because)
Base neck level and no seepage. Decanted for three hours with a triple. Lovely dark garnet in colour with a chrystal rim. What a seductive and mesmerizing nose! Leather, cassis, fresh cut cedar, red cherries, tea, lily’s, and sweet tobacco. The leather, cherries and tobacco are quite evident on the finish - with a little spice. What a finish! This went on for about two minutes. The tannins are soft and plump. They are not stringent at all and really show the strength of this enticing Pauillac. Incredible layers that that are judicious and not too forceful. This is my second '89 Mouton and I am blown away. Not up to the '86 (which I rate at a perfect 100), however, a tad better than the '82 (in my humble opinion and I prefer the '89 vintage - overall). Having this the day after the '82 really shows how diverse and similar this awe-inspiring terroir can be. This is my second favorite of the '89 First-Growths (Haut-Brion 100 pts, Latour 96 pts, Lafite and Margaux 95 pts ea.) I truly do not understand the split reaction to this wine. There's a long life ahead and it could still use a couple more years. Only two more left in my collection. Drink 2012 -.
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Opened 2h in advance. First nose was shy and seducive, with cherry and licorice but after the 2nd serving typical Cabernet mokka and barnyard came out. In mouth beautifull with good power in the palate. Slight bitterness at the end. Best red of the evening. 92+
Should get a short decant before drinking.
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Encore jeune, surprenant d'ailleurs après le Figeac 88 ! On se fait malgré tout une idée de ce vin avant de le boire, je voulais être renversé mais il ne m'a pas convaincu autant que le Figeac malgré son grand potentiel. Une belle structure pour un grand millésime à Pauillac.
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New Year's Eve 2009 (Chicago IL): Unfortunately mildly corked. Mature aromas of red currant and plum with cigar box notes still come through. Medium bodied and fully ready to drink.
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I had little expectations for the wine, and therefore was pleasantly surprised. This was a classic Pauillac, with cigar smoke, fruit, a hint of medicine, mint, lead pencil and lots of coffee. Finish was acidic with round tannins.
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Wino Guys Weekend (WGW) #3; 9/11/2009-9/12/2009: Medium-ruby colour. Classic Medoc aromas of cedar, pencil lead, cigar box, and leather joined by notes of wet leaves, potpourri, and spice. Medium-full bodied, delicious, silky in texture with notes of wet leaves, cigar, and cedar. Long finish, ~40-45s, with delicate fruit, leather, sandalwood, and cigar box. Outstanding and a real treat to enjoy. This wine can go for many, many more years but is drinking well now.
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Single decanted 90 minutes prior service. The cork was saturated and gave an acacia smell like a young cali cab. Brick hue but clear rim and aromatics fooled blind tasters as to its age. Classic pauillac ose of pencil lead, cedar and some yeasty bread-notes with a high note of camphor. It has a rich palate with smooth tannins that linger. It was a dark fruit flavor that coalesced to a bright cherry by the last of the glass.
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The fill was top shoulder; opened (but not decanted) about 1 hour prior to service. An exotic bouquet of lavender, cedary dark fruits, truffle, campfire and fennel. Medium bodied, with beautiful concentration of fruit -- but very light on her feet -- with a velvety mid-palate, lush texture, and well delineated finish. Did not improve (daresay it even faded a bit) with extended airing in the glass, but it is drinking perfectly at present. What a treat! Drank side by side with the '88 Mouton, which is a younger wine in just about every respect.
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From different storage from my last bottle. Opaque red, by the color it's nowhere near a 20 years old wine. strong nose of smoky tobacco, plum, black fruits. Very very long finish
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Lots of pedigree, fully developed, and as ready as one can be. No disappointments here, aristocracy in the glass. Excellent compliment to veal chop grilled on wood coal BBQ with cast iron grill.
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Coffee, licorice, cedar, cassis, tar, and molasses fill your nose with pleasure. This full bodied wine has nice weight and density as well as good texture. But the black fruit filled finish falls short, especially for a First Growth in a strong vintage. This wine will continue drinking well for at least another decade.
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Having had this Sunday night, I thought it would be a killer way to start and set the tone for the rest of the evening. This was a better bottle than Sunday. The nose was funky at first, I believe the term was dog crap and coffee!!! Little VA funkiness but blew off revealing that coffee mocha and vibrant fruits, blackberry and vanilla with some dark tea notes. Well structured, elegant, has the bones to go much further. Would rate this low 90's
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Blind Night (Apiary): Interesting. When this was revealed it made perfect sense. Everything here seemed in such perfect proportion that you knew it didn't come from a second-tier vintage, but the flavors were more advanced than the structure suggested it should be. So it turns out to be a Mouton that's often called out as an underachiever. Maybe it won't be a 50-year-wine but as it sat in the glass it turned into what many Moutons are not - first-growth complexity. Last sip was packed with cigar smoke and graphite and sunk into the palate with a truly sophisticated grace.
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Tasted blind together with Latour, Pichon Baron and Poyferré. The majority of the tasters placed this last. Some reductive aromas that took a long time to blow off otherwise a nice cherries and some oak. Very mature, not very complex. Could this have been an off bottle? Hard to tell - but this wine doesn't have a very high market price.
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Youthful dark red color. Immediate nose of vanilla, caramel, creme de cassis with noticeable alcohol. Big wine with full-bodied texture but yet elegant in a Mouton way. I always found Mouton to be very deliciously made with style. After a couple of hours, the Merlot dominated with the coffee crushed , espresso like and it stayed that way for the rest of the bottle. To me this is a very nice bottle of Mouton which I've enjoyed a lot. Too bad we took to much time opening the 1979 Latour which left us too little time for the wines.
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I had high expectations for this wine, but it was even better than I could have hoped! The fill was into the neck; pulled the cork (but did not decant) about 2 hours before dinner. A pretty ruby-red color, turning towards garnet at the rim. A glorious bouquet of ripe red and black fruits, fennel, leather lilly and spice. Just as impressive in the mouth, with good structure, a velvety mid-palate (off the charts!) but with good structure and a very focused finish. This bottle was drinking perfectly, but will surely last for many years to come.
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This year (1989) marks a very important event for Germany - the reunification in 1989, which is also the topic of the label (made by Georg Baselitz) " drüben sein jetzt hier". The wine has a magnificent bouquet of great depth and richness; rich red to the rim without any signs of aging, however, the wine itself was somewhat disappointing: lovely integrated attack but it lacked the complexity and length of a first growth - it may be over its best time and I think it will not anymore improve, but decline. Decanted 6 hours.
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Very earthy nose, with time this dissipated and allowed a floral note to emerge. There was some fruit notes buried deeply in this wine but lacked complexity. Structured and a little square. Solid above average wine. Drink or hold.
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WOW! Spectacular nose, just took me to another place! Leather, cedar, red fruits, graphite, perfect balance, nice tannins and structure just left me speechless. There was some much nuances and complexity on the finish I had a hard time putting my glass down.
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Holiday Party (Jeff): Ruby color. Perfumed raspberry nose. Tastes of blackberry, blackcurrant, bell pepper and earth. Medium to full-bodied. Good balance and acidity. Nicely integrated oak and tannins. Good complexity with a very elegant finish.
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decanted about 4 hours. proving once again that there are no great wines, just great bottles, i thoroughly enjoyed this. seemingly fully mature, with solid notes of leather, strong black tea, tobacco. also, there was a good story behind the history of the bottle acquisition.
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Had with dinner at Cottonwood in Truckee, CA. Decanted about an hour head of time. This was a fantastic bottle of wine start to finish. Super deep red color. Not hint of age. A wonderful nose with cranberry and rasberry. Super smooth tannins. Totally delightful.
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rich red to the rim without any signs of aging - magnificent bouquet of great depth and richness - the wine itself was a little disappointing: lovely integrated attack but it seemed to lack the complexity and length of a first growth - it may well improve with time - leave
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I had a chance to enjoy a glass of this great wine over the weekend. Impeccable balance, with a nose so evocative I could hardly stop smelling it. Coffee, cassis, fall leaves, menthol, warm leather, touch of graphite, the list goes on and on. Dry and full on the palate with silky texture and a long, caressing finish. The best Bordeaux I have ever tasted.
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Flickinger Wines customer Appreciation Tasting (The Racquet Club, Chicago): Deep garnet color. Opens with a great earthy quality, Otis referred to it as peat...but there's also plenty of fruit underneath, along with pencil lead and floral tones. This is a muscular wine, full bodied and incredibly well-balanced, yet there are sill some tannins and oak to integrate. Deep, lush red fruit flavors, along with spice and oak. The finish lasts well over a minute. Still on the young side at the moment, will be absolutely stunning at its peak. 96+.
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The problem with a wine of this magnitude is that you expect too much of it based on its reputation and cult status. We tasted it blind along Leoville Barton 1989 and Tronquoy Lalande 1989, three wines of different class and prices. Probably not surprising, that Mouton shined through and most of the tasters guessed it right - it stood out with a very intense nose of cofee, mocha as well as red fruits. Later it showed some more vanilla on the nose. The palate was very fresh and full of fruit for this age of wine, however, at a later stage during the dinner I thought that the oak flavours started to dominate the others. Went beautifully with lamb stewed in red wine (basic NZ pinot noir by the way:). It is a very complex wine indeed. However, if you have to choose for lamb - Tronquoy Lalande 1989 was not bad at all, although much more mature and past its best - but for a fraction of the price.
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Drank with wine-loving friends in Geneva with dinner. Decanted for an hour beforehand. Still deep in colour, with a cigar-box and dark fruits bouquet. Enjoyable if not spectacular mouthful with a long dry finish. Whilst I love this, it's still not bowling me over like I hoped a first growth would. Suspect a good bottle will be fine for a few years yet.
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Wonderful, rich Mouton nose, warm, deep and exotic, blackberry, tobacco, cedar, well-integrated oak, gravel, meat, harmonious; lovely ripe and juicy sweetness; relatively light weight, slightly edgy tannins; excellent finish, long and fragrant. Fully evolved, time in hand. Now - 2020.
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Well I finally opened my oldest and most expensive bottle for no real occasion, just to drink! Decanted for an hour and a half. Great Pauillac nose, backwards fruit on the palate, lots of cedar and oak and dark fruit throughout, incredibly long finish. Have to say I was a tiny bit disappointed, it wasn't as expressive as the last time I tried this. Crazy price for what you get, but ah, and experience you don't forget.
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Looked great in the glass. Bright,deep red with lots of legs Most complex and elegant nose-spice and blackcurrants.Smooth entry with fruit and balanced tannins. Very nice mouthful but a little short with tannin predominating.Group opinion is that we are not sure it is quite ready yet-but what a magnificent nose! [Geoff's birthday lunch[byow]-The Forest Dorridge]
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Balanced and complete wine. Medium bodied and not as rich as the 1982 Gruaud Larose we had with it, but all the elements are in harmony. Great elegance and length. The balance is such that it will easily live another ten years.
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1-08 tasted with 1981 Caymus Grace and 1980 Dunn Howell. The Mouton was politically correct with all the elements there, and so well behaved it was overshadowed by the 2 California wines. It was quite good, but not that distinctive for a first growth from a reputedly stellar vintage. Good to drink now a years to come.
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Enjoyed this with Kevin to celebrate successfully delivering the Closing the Gap program. Definitely ready to be consumed, and already getting a little light around the edges while in the glass. Medium bodied, multi-layered, flavors of chocolate and red fruit. I only had one bottle, but if I had more I'd be drinking it now.
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Tasted at a Commanderie de Bordeaux dinner, Lacroix at the Rittenhouse, Dec 2007. This was one of the "bin ends" that was available during the reception. Sound appearance, with a dark purplish ruby-red core, with just a hint of amber at the edges. Pretty and extroverted bouquet, offering up notes of violet, ripe dark fruits, and spice. Medium-bodied on the palate, with good structure and a crisp finish. Not as lush as the '85 Mouton. This wine would have been much better if paired with food, but still a treat to taste and experience.
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This is beautiful Mouton. Wonderful scents of lead pencil, cassis, mild wood and original Mouton perfume. Very elegance in the beginning and getting more fruits..good acid, well-round, bigger body..lovely and long finished.
Impress !!
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Lunch at Chez Bruce (Chez Bruce, London): Lunch with D Wainwright @ Chez Bruce 3rd of89 Claret flight. dark purple color with a lightening around the edges. spicy blackberries on the nose, some grassy veg smell.most developed of the three clarets. med weight, med finish, nice drink,has many years left on it
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Had before the Roger Waters concert at West Palm Wines in Tampa with Jim, Kate, Mark and of course Amanda. I'm not sure why I didn't think this wine was going to be great (maybe the lukewarm Parker reviews?), but it certainly held its own against some ferocious competition, a 1990 Gaja Sori Tildin Barbaresco that was showing spectacularly that night. Really drinkable now, but should certainly still improve if one is fortunate enough to have the patience.
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Absolutely wonderful bottle, consumed along with a 1990 Gaja Sori Tildin and a 1995 Griotte-Chambertin from Rene Leclerc, prior to attending the Roger Waters concert in Tampa. Lots of that great Bordeaux earthiness, along with a healthy dose of that ripe, plummy, almost California-like fruit that is so characteristic of Mouton. The most voloptuous and hedonistic of First Growths comes through again. Bravo!
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(at The Modern – NYC) Medium / deep garnet. Gorgeous nose of plum, tobacco and cinnamon. Ripe and inviting. Merely OK on the palate – good, typical cassis flavors with some mineral. Not great depth or finish. Not up to expectations. (90)
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HDH Comparative Bordeaux Tasting 1989 & 1990 (Casino Club): Full red color. Huge aroma of coffee black fruit and graphite. Big black pencil lead and black fruit with a ton of structure and a long finish. May be great in the future. 93-94 pts.
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Bordeaux on the Hudson (Peter Pratt's Inn): This wine certainly lacked the WOW factor of some of the others, but it was quite a pleasant and friendly wine. The nose was quite pretty with ample cassis mingled with graphite, cedar and a bit of toast. The nose is much more impressive that the mouth on this one though. On it's own it would have seemed more impressive, but in the company of some classic wines, it seemed a bit simple. It doesn't fall apart and the fruit is sweet and ripe and it has a nice balance to it. While broad it just is not very deep. Still, it had a long finish, is nicely made and is quite enjoyable.
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HDH Pre-Auction Tasting Highlights (Chicago IL): Wine tasting. leathery character to start with fairly mature fruit. Fairly structured and acidic still today, dominating the primary and secondary character of the wine today. Moderate finish shows slightly more fruit, but is also slightly dried out.
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NobleRottersSydney - First Growth Night (Guillaume at Bennelong): This wine’s bouquet still has some primary fruit notes to offer – there’s more than a dash of rich cassis aroma among the accompanying smoke and tobacco nose. Very rich indeed after the preceding Chevals [89 & 88]. The palate is big too; an arch of ripe flavour stretches in an even sweep from front to back. Here the development takes centre-stage, and the aromatic fruitiness subsides beneath the strong chalky tannins and muscular acidity. Wonderfully balanced, with a long even finish, this is a classy wine which drinks beautifully now, but will happily take more cellaring. Was the early runner for wine-of-the-night, and only lost a few supporters along the way.
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Out of magnum, which was purchased at auction in the early 90's. Decanted for an hour, then slowly drunk by four of us over a long dinner. This wine is pleasant, but certainly not awe inspiring. It really softened up quickly, with a very nice "mature claret" type of personality. The color was dark, the tannis were low, and the fruit was nice but reserved. Interestingly, I enjoyed its softness, and lower level of tannin, characteristics that seem at odds with most of the TN's I've read on this wine. All in all, a bottle in good shape, but a wine that is a solid 89/90. For shock and awe, we'll need to find something else this Labor Day weekend!
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Tasted side-by-side with the ’83 -- these were almost identical. If anything I thought the ’83 was a slightly darker color and had slightly more concentration. Both offered a big barnyard (in a positive sense) on the nose. Very Exciting.
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This was a classic Mouton that showed cedar, cassis, and lead pencil. Riper and richer fruit than the 1983; medium body; long finish. The depth and minerality of this wine were just superb.
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Minneapolis Dinner and Tasting - Chateauneuf, Bordeaux, and Burgundy (mainly) (J.P.'s in Minneapolis): Same bottle as Siggy's TN... Tasted side by side with the '83 Mouton, the '89 showed deeper / denser / darker fruit and more tannin - clearly younger than the '83 - yet there were still a number of similarities between these two wines. Cedar, graphite and cassis / prune. This is a rather powerful but still generous, classically styled Bordeaux that will live and develop for many more years... Thanks, Diane!
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Nice wine. Has elements of youth with its fruit and elements of maturity with a smooth mouthfeel. Definitely has some secondary nuances, but I was too busy at the party to note them.
Xmas dinner at our house with kobe-gyu.
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Great rich black cherry, cedar, and briar. 94 pts. 5/05 Full coffee red. Full psicy (oaky?) red fruit. Full ripe tannic red current with telltale graphite notes. Not quite the same complexity. Nice acidity. 93 pts. NYWE 05 10/05
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Dark garnet colour. Aromas of nail polish, mustard, currant, cigar/smoke; a bit musty. Medium-bodied, with cedar, red delicious apple. Austere. Short finish with red fruit. Fleshes out a little with more time, but ultimately, a disappointing bottle.
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A 98 point dinner at Steve Cramer's (West Seattle, WA, USA): The nose shows a whiff of vanillin and then the lead pencil and leather. The palate shows a nice, medium weight claret that is fairly well resolved. This is certainly a nice wine, but given the producer and vintage it is disappointing. Certainly this is nothing like the 1986 or 1982.
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Slightly animalistic refined nose. Quite meat and rich on the palate. But not really sufficiently together on finish. Soft tannins with lovely structure. Very Good Indeed.
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Dark reddish in the glass. Scents of forest floor, coffee, and roasted almonds. Nicely cream-like on the tongue, well structured and harmoniously integrated. The wine was medium bodied and there was a pleasant and tasty, vanilla-oak character. Good definition and balance on the medium long aftertaste. My guess was Lafite.
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Garnet red. Aromas of pencil lead, barnyard, berries, and dark fruit. Medium-full bodied with peppery red fruit, and good structure. Delicious finish. Fabulous wine.
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A nose of graphite, green pepper and some slight barnyard which may have blown off with more decanting. It did not follow through to the palate. Like drinking silk this was so smooth. Notes of black currant, berry and some meatiness. Well integrated and a long finish. Oh what it could be with a better nose. 94-95 points.
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This was the best showing yet for this wine, which I have had many bottles. Wonderful nose of cedar, smokey oak, blackcurrents, classic Paulliac profile. Good complexity, reminds me of the 85 with more going on
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Tasted at vertical Mouton dinner at the Belgian Lion. Dark ruby with red rim (in contrast to Parker's 2/28/97 tasting). I completely disagree with Parker in the sense that this wine is not evolved on the nose. Perhaps it has gone to sleep since his 1997 tasting. The nose is closed ant the palate shows massive oak, currants, vanilla and earth flavors. Tannins are huge and the wine has a long, tannic finish. Needs time.
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Hi-Time Tasting, 1990 Mondavi Reserve, 1990 Opus, 1989 and 1990 Chateau Mouton, lovely, rich tobacco nose with hints of leather and cedar, medium/big body, elegant, stylish in the mouth, nice, medium/long finish. 3 way tie for #1.
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Tasted at blind horizontal 1989 Bordeaux tasting at Vintage Wines, Ltd. Deep ruby, red rim. Moderately intense oak, vanilla and currants on nose. Full body, big extract, yet elegant on palate. Massive but supple tannins, long finish. Personal and group ranking 3rd out of 8 top growths.
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3/27/2024 - paulst Likes this wine: 95 Points
Cedar; brickish brown; some blackberry and cherry; elegant and silky finish.
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3/25/2024 - Sean Tay wrote: 95 Points
Pronounced nose intensity with charr wood, toast, leather, forest floor, spices, black fruits. Medium+ acidity and medium tannin. Tannin is integrated. Still drinking very well depending on provenance and storage condition.
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3/18/2024 - merlotsmile Likes this wine: 92 Points
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2/22/2024 - Paul D wrote: 95 Points
Medium/deep garnet, pale rim. Lovely pure-fruited nose, floral notes, some exotic spice. Hint of chocolate. Medium/full bodied, cassis fruit, touch of tobacco, spice notes, soft tannins, fresh acidity, long harmonious finish. Outstanding, drinking well, no need to hurry.
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2/22/2024 - Vinumming & Ahhing Likes this wine: 96 Points
1989 Bordeaux Horizontal - London (Piccolino, Exchange Square): Very luxe. Nose has a mushroom duxelles umami character with an exotic star anise character. Palate is so rich and long with cassis and subtle Christmas spices. With time in the glass there is a subtle rhubarb coulis character to the nose. Mine and the table's wine of the night.
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1/20/2024 - Caseyfoster120 Likes this wine: 94 Points
Delicious, taste the terroir, a bit of a musty taste given the age, but flavorful and great! Selannes with filet.
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1/11/2024 - La Sprezzatura wrote: 95 Points
silky, elegant, charming and complex. this is in a great spot right now even though it can still be stored for some more years with improvement imo.
great cabernet driven spice and darkish fruit, tannins, acidity and tertiary aromas perfectly blended togther. mushrooms and sous-bois with hints of cigar box and a intact and performing fruit core.
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1/11/2024 - J_H Likes this wine: 94 Points
-informal dinner, no detailed notes taken
- Accesible and intense nose with great cabernet spice, leather, wet forest and signs of mushrooms. Yes this Mouton is in a good spot today.
- On the palate silky in all means, balance of intensitiy of the fruit and acidity. Tannis are till there and giving a velvety structure to the fruity core which is ever evolving but as well not super complex to rate it higher.
- 94-95p
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12/25/2023 - paulst Likes this wine: 94 Points
Cedar and some tobacco; lean and balanced with moderate cassis and fruit. Moderate finish.
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12/23/2023 - peternelson wrote: 92 Points
Good fill level excellent ruby red color; Light Is Asian spice on the nose,Soft leather, dried flower petals, Exotic spice, very soft silky entry, just a little flabby low ish on acidity, Dry Fine resolving tanninps. Nice medium finish drinks like a less than stellar moton Rothschild.In Seattle with rib roast.
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11/25/2023 - palfr2 wrote:
Incredibly fresh on the nose with camphor notes. Youthful as in no clear signs this is beyond primary. No obvious give aways of Pauillacness such as graphite, pencil lead etc...Solid if not outright awesome
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11/19/2023 - llink wrote: 95 Points
Mouton vs Lynch-Bages 1989, 1986, 1966 and 1961 vintages (A collector's home): Decanted for 2 hours, served single blind in a flight of 4 wines. Wine A, My 1st ranked wine, groups 2nd. Lovely nose, espresso, coffee grinds, herbs mixed with bright red fruit and blood orange elements. Rich, medium weight palate (the lightest weight wine of the flight), rounder and riper than others, multi-layered sweet fruit. A toss up between this and wine D for me, I ranked this slightly ahead because it seemed more ready to go although less complex.
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11/19/2023 - englishman's claret wrote: 96 Points
It seems it has been 8 years since I last posted a note on the 1989 Mouton. This is still a ravishing, bold wine, its oak fully integrated, its nose bursting with pencil, sandalwood, wood smoke, and blackberry. I love the aromatic volume here, though it’s missing just a bit of the minty, eucalyptus element I recall. The palate is no less vivid (the above complemented by Périgord truffle) transitioning to a persistent finish. From magnum, this seems in good form, having found a stage of excellent drinkability yet promising a long life ahead.
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11/11/2023 - misterstarre Likes this wine: 94 Points
In a perfectly appropriate spot to drink. A more or less classic Mouton, though the volume on the fruit was turned down a bit, it has a wonderful soft elegance, forward graphite, plum, dark berry, and middle-aged tertiary development, including worn leather and bay leaf. There's some cedar and tobacco that comes through towards the mid-palate and beyond. Not an OMG Mouton, but a fine one still.
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11/5/2023 - aquacongas wrote: 94 Points
blind
I guessed Lynch Bages 1989. The roasted aromas are in the background. Still fresh with some secondary and tertiary aromas. 94
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10/15/2023 - Rysling Likes this wine: 100 Points
Definitely at peak, still a lot of life but I certainly can't imagine improvement. Great menthol and soft tannins, a perfect wine.
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9/20/2023 - steinersing wrote: 94 Points
Again attractive - the fruit now a little more in the background. Transforming to a more mature stage.
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9/12/2023 - LB88 wrote: 94 Points
Opened and left in magnum needed abt 3 hours to evolve and open up. Beautiful sois bois and smelly bouquet, balanced and rounded on the palate. Unfortunately my last bottle
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6/18/2023 - Teddyfreezeout Likes this wine: 95 Points
Father’s Day 2023 - my first, so what better occasion to try my hand at a first growth. Happened to be surfing Chambers’ website about three seconds after they added just a single ‘89 Mouton from a private collection, and at a relatively decent price due to a rip in the label the stars were aligned. Thrilling to be sure.
I deliberated for weeks on how to open this bottle. Decant? Audouze? How long do I stand up the bottle? How does the 12.5% ABV factor into the equation? I didn’t have a decanter worthy of the bottle and I didn’t want to wreck the wine, but, after pouring through the Wine Berserkers threads, I’m not sure I necessarily believe in the science of slow-oxing. With three hours to go before dinner, it was time to just go for it.
Opened with a Durand - moist, fully soaked cork. Poured a small taste. Vegetal and wet leaves on the nose. Light flashes of acidity after about 15 minutes in the glass but largely one-dimensional. I decided to wait and check in periodically, leaving the bottle standing in a cool place in my apartment for as long as it takes.
An hour in - we are still in 1D. Not a good sign? Or is no sign one hour in no sign at all?
Three hours in - the nose is starting to evolve. Pyrazines, mushroom, cedar. Palate improving but muted, perhaps too old and too tired to awaken.
5 hours in - finally in a much better place and I’m officially relieved this is not a huge disappointment. Mushrooms and toasted almonds on the nose, dark fruits on the palate.
And then about 45 minutes after that this ‘89 Mouton revealed itself in all its mature glory with freshness, complexity and a finish that I will be chasing for decades to come.
Ripe blueberries. Pepper, dark fruit, cilantro finish that quite intensely goes on and on - it just waves over the palate with fruit and spice for minutes. Flashes of minerality as if gravel was seeping through the palate the same way it would pour through my hands. Black cherry. Ripe plum. Mocha. Mushroom and toasted wood on the nose. Finish bursting with a mouthful of cilantro and spice.
Does one score on the best glass? The best sip? The bottle and experience as a whole?
The best sips were transcendental and 97-98 pts for me. Yet they needed to be earned and were not reflective of the entire bottle.
Still, this 34 year old was authentic and true to itself. I was quite pleased when the toasted notes started showing as I read they were part of Mouton’s style at the time, and the stunning ripe fruit after all these years seems representative of the hot 1989 vintage that led to Mouton’s earliest harvest of the century.
95 pts.
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6/3/2023 - steinersing wrote: 95 Points
very attractive Mouton in its peak drinking window. Just the right level of evolution now with impressive underlying freshness.
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5/20/2023 - Dibbs Likes this wine: 95 Points
Jason's belated Birthday: Animalistic, meaty, feral nose to start with which blew away with air. The palate beautifully balanced, classic claret style. No real fireworks but impeccable structure and balance.
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5/19/2023 - pclin wrote: 95 Points
A very good showing against stiff competition. 95+ points. Single blind.
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5/17/2023 - Vinumming & Ahhing Likes this wine: 97 Points
Amazing Bordeaux To Mark A Special Birthday (Noizé, London): Wow. This is wonderful and so exotic. There's a broad mixed fruit backbone of real pedigree. On top of this there are all the elements of a virgin mary with some Worcester Sauce, tomato and crunchy celery. Palate lasts for ever and has beautifully fine tannins with some herbal richness. A spot of soy umami richness. My wine of the night and wine of the year to date.
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4/21/2023 - bjbu wrote:
Intensity medium(-). Blueberry, blackberry, tomato leaf, pepper, fungus. Acidity medium. Tannins medium(+). Finish medium. Much to our disappointment, this bottle did not perform as we would have hoped. Hence, no rating.
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4/21/2023 - ThijsV wrote:
WSET 2 tasting group get together (Utrecht, NL): [Not tasted blind as it was my bottle] Unfortunately bordering on flawed. The cork was completely soaked. This bottle showed only tertiary notes (leather, forest floor, mushroom), some green bell pepper, hints of blackberry and black currant.
Disappointed…
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4/15/2023 - Alex Barbera Likes this wine: 95 Points
Klassisch / typische / toll
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4/7/2023 - kr522 wrote: 92 Points
Good not great. I haven’t had this wine since broadly tasting this vintage >25 years ago, where it was apparent the first growths of the Medoc inexplicably whiffed in a year where the weather was great and other regions (Graves and Pomerol) made excellent wines
I’ve been hearing how well certain 89s have rounded into form so I pulled the cork on one of 2 bottles I have left. Excellent color and nose with classic dark red fruits, lead pencil, and spices…which deserves a higher score than the overall wine. the palate is fresh and balanced, but doesn’t have the depth or harmony of the best Moutons.
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3/12/2023 - Collector1855 wrote: 96 Points
Fully mature, earthy nose with farmyard funk that you will only get from a Medoc Cab Sab. Complex and grand aromatics. Mature, drink up.
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1/17/2023 - maaike2 wrote: 95 Points
Cork intact. Retasted after 48 hours. Super seductive with dark fruit, tobacco, cigar, good acidity, tannins beautifully integrated, round, enormous length. Heaven. Lack of power makes higher score not applicable.
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12/31/2022 - mxpbuy Likes this wine: 96 Points
I'm a sucker for Moutons and this wine after less than an hour was showing how far wrong early judgments of it by Parker and Tanzer were. A smorgasbord of flavors, tobacco, grilled meats, leather, blackberries, black cherries, dried herbs, sweet Oak, cedar, graphite, touches of strawberries. Almost too much for the senses to handle. Near silky smooth.
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12/27/2022 - boillatm Likes this wine: 93 Points
My second Mouton after a bottle of the 1981 vintage.
Bottle bought at an auction a couple of months ago and opened 30 minutes before drinking (no decant). The cork was entirely soaked.
Very ethereal and complex medium-bodied wine. Very Pauillac.
Now, would I think this is a great wine if it wasn't Mouton Rothschild? I mean, I had other 1989s Pauillac (PLC, Duhart Milon) that were in my mind as interesting as this. But perhaps my palate is not distinguished enough to appreciate all the subtelties of a wine of such pedigree.
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12/26/2022 - Vinum Deorum wrote: 93 Points
Good but I would not call it a success for Mouton, nor for the vintage. It has a decent structure, with a bit of rusticity and slightly angular tanins. Good length, medium bodied, not much fruitiness nor freshness. The wine itself is pretty nice, but there is nothing really special in it. I mean, one can have the same level of pleasure with hundreds of ordinary wines from the area. Just a good ordinary claret at the wrong price point.
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12/24/2022 - Comte Flaneur wrote: 95 Points
Popped and poured, cork soaked through and sheared off. I took a sample and let it stand in a cool place for a couple of hours. It started out slowly and awkwardly. My initial fear was that this may be drying out. But no, after a while it began to show its class. Some would argue that, like the 1990, this is a Mouton without ambition, against some epic 1989s made at Haut Brion /LMHB, Lafite of course, Palmer, Petrus, etc. Suckling famously rated it 99 (I think) and Parker 89 (I think). Both turned out to be wrong. Parker was more wrong than Suckling, imo. It is in interesting that in such a warm vintage this is barely more than medium-bodied, commendably 12.5% abv. As if, in the transition from the Baron’s passing, his now also late daughter, Philippine, deliberately went for a more elegant style, at the risk of being condemned with a low Parker score. But with the passage of time this has evolved into a glorious wine. It does not have the power of the Moutons from the legendary 82, 86 and 96 vintages, but has so much class and finesse. It has a glorious, pure, red-fruited compote and (appropriately for this time of year) a Christmassy spicy entry, with classic Pauillac cedar and lead pencil, allied to a smoky late autumn bonfire note, which combined is such a turn on. One distinguished wine pages forumite famously dismissed this as a luncheon claret. On this showing that is just so far off base. It is definitely on the lean side but arguably no worse for that; but, at the same time, it is effortlessly seamless, classy and harmonious; clearly first growth pedigree, and easily 95 pts.
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11/5/2022 - paulst Likes this wine: 94 Points
Light and lean; elegant with earth and light cassis and some blackberry; smooth and balanced with resolved tannin; soft elegant finish.
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10/3/2022 - DWStyle Likes this wine: 95 Points
Last bottle of a case and I’m sad to see it go!
To me this is an underrated Mouton vintage . Really enjoyed this wine!
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9/24/2022 - bbq_grandcru Likes this wine: 94 Points
Dark fruit and medium minus body. Interesting purity of fruit expression. Drinking beautifully now with a long life ahead.
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7/17/2022 - Cailles wrote: 95 Points
Annual BYO Pre-Dinner (mostly mature Bordeauxs): From magnum. Shunned by the critics on release, this vintage turns out to be one of the best vintages for current consumption and probably among the top 10 vintages in the past 50 years before the Chateau’s hot streak begun with the 2009 vintage. This was drinking so easily, I could have finished the mag alone. 94/95 pts
TN: Intense, young, dark berries, herbs, minerality, some tobacco. On the palate this is well balanced, with a telltale graphite minerality, a sweet, ripe dark fruit core, some leather, whiffs of tobacco and some faint toasty notes. Medium+ precision. Beautiful roundness, with round, velvety tannins, a well integrated medium acidity, a creamy texture. Well balanced and with a long but not overly complex finish.
Decanting: This should be good to go with 2 hours in the decanter.
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7/1/2022 - sirpat00 wrote: 96 Points
From Magnum, not decanted. Barnyard to the fore, surprisingly light berry fruit at first, but adding plum and blue berries quickly. Nice leather and scorched earth dimensions along with mineral notes of graphite and pencil shavings. Intense and masculine with a dark soul to it, supported by a high octane palate. Still brutally young with mouthcoating tannin and plenty of acidity and absolutely to rush to open any magnums here – but if you do, would go for at least a 3-4h decant.
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6/19/2022 - paulst Likes this wine: 92 Points
Light; earthy; light cherry-blackberry; soft and elegant; smooth long finish.
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6/3/2022 - Nanda wrote: 93 Points
Along side the 89 H-B and Margaux, this was third but that's only because the other two were perfect/near-perfect. This has incredible, pure, complex fruit and now-refined structure. Terrific.
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6/2/2022 - DWStyle Likes this wine: 97 Points
Fabulous as always. PNP, perfect ! Do not recommend decant. Delicious Drank with my 91 yr old father at Reve in Lafayette, Ca. Wonderful dinner and wine of course !
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5/9/2022 - Goodwine4ever wrote: 92 Points
Dégustation de 30 millésimes de Mouton Rothschild
1989
Un des nez les plus terreux jusqu’à présent, au nez et en bouche belle matière, très bien équilibré niveau tannins/acidité/fruits, sous-bois dominant mais bien intégré, pas dans les meilleurs mais bien fait.
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5/2/2022 - beatles wrote: 95 Points
Amazing showing tonight. Dry, vertical, manly, notes of tobacco, leather, red fruit. In complete harmony.
#Sonne
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4/28/2022 - hprphf wrote: 93 Points
Much better than expected, entering its drinking window. Smooth, sweet, Pauillac profile. 93
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4/21/2022 - paulst Likes this wine:
Sweet, earthy, blackberry, thin structure, light, smooth finish
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3/24/2022 - ricknat1 Likes this wine: 95 Points
Very good but will be excellent as the tannins melt away big wine
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1/16/2022 - Wine MOB Likes this wine: 95 Points
It is funny because I was thinking that Parker always underrated this wine. He always gave it high 80’s to 90. I always had it mid-90’s. This is the best version of this wine that I have had. Great balance, elegant and full of life. This doesn’t have the muscle of mouton from a great vintage, but the seamlessness makes up for it. Cedar, lead pencil, iodine slight herbaceous tones, with lovely red current and cherries. Really stunning. Oh, btw, what makes elite wine different from great wine? Absence of edges. This wine as zero edges. Just incredible harmony
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12/25/2021 - AlanM68 Likes this wine: 94 Points
Second of the case, opened not many days after the first. An exceptional wine with long life ahead of it. Don’t be shy to drink now - but give it at least 3, and perhaps 5, hours of air. And relish from them on.
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12/18/2021 - CellarBord Likes this wine: 93 Points
I loved the the beautiful open nose on this wine. The wine is medium bodied which seemed out of sinc with the nose. Still a very nice wine. Drink now-2030.
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12/10/2021 - hprphf wrote: 93 Points
Superb clarity, so sweet, classic. Very good bottle. Simple, ready, complex. 93-94
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12/3/2021 - Ericsson wrote: 93 Points
Bordal au Bavard (Mouton, L'Evangile, Roc de Cambes) (Le Bavard, Carouge): Ouvert 1 heure avant dégustation, a pris du temps pour s'épanouir.
Robe grenat moyen. Dès le 1er nez, on sent la classe, boîte à cigares, une touche de cassis, un peu plus "mentholé" que dans mes souvenirs.
En bouche, fin et aristocratique, manque peut-être un peu de matière mais garde une belle tenue.
A boire avec de la réserve.
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11/21/2021 - hargy Likes this wine: 93 Points
if you were to rate this wine on its bouquet alone, it would be a "100" - the wine itself is a lot more subdued and still needs to be coaxed out of its shell - this should get better and better and could well be sensational in ten years!
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11/19/2021 - fcxj wrote: 92 Points
Plum, cedar aromatics. Retains fairly vivacious fruit on palate.
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10/31/2021 - AlanM68 Likes this wine: 95 Points
First of a new case. Top of the cork was a little mouldy but it came out in one piece. Nose muted initially - but 2 hours in the decanter and this wine comes alive. From then on it was a joy to drink, improving with more time. Don’t be afraid to decant much earlier. I think this wine easily has another 10 or even 20 years ahead of it.
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10/23/2021 - jgh123 Likes this wine: 94 Points
Very little sediment. Still dark purple and restrained. Began to open after a couple of hours. At 32 years still youthful and powerful. Hard to know what the drinking window is but I predict it will be good over the next couple of decades.
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10/8/2021 - JonnyG wrote: 89 Points
A Tour de Force 'Best Bottle' Tasting (Republique, Los Angeles): Not flawed, just not very generous, I am afraid. Both green and volatile, with a little barnyard as well. Maybe this turns in the years ahead, but hard to be confident based on this bottle.
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9/9/2021 - Andyrodriguez87 Likes this wine: 92 Points
Part of the ‘89 bordeaux tasting with the boys. Wine #1. Tasted blind. A little green and simple on the nose and though less green on the palate, this was pretty simplistic, one dimensional, had a short finish and though technically nothing ‘wrong’, it was wildly overwhelmed by the other wines in the table. I suspect on its own and in a vacuum I would’ve enjoyed this more but not in this company. Definitely approaching the end of drinking window for me and on a graceful decline with not a whole lot of fruit or intensity or stuffing left. Last place of the 6 wines on the table that night.
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9/5/2021 - paulst Likes this wine: 95 Points
Earth-blackberry-cherry-licorice; balanced and integrated; smooth; moderate soft finish.
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7/8/2021 - DWStyle Likes this wine: 97 Points
Another delicious bottle. No decant PnP.
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7/3/2021 - DWStyle Likes this wine: 97 Points
Delicious! No decant. Drank over 3 hrs. Enjoyed with a Wagu cap at Strip Steak LV. Noticeably better than my previous bottle! Much more fruit flavor and complexity. Drinking so finely now, hard to hold off!
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4/20/2021 - The Vines That Bind wrote: 93 Points
[Magnum] Classic nose, forest floor, damp earth, coffee grounds, and lead pencil above lush and ripe red fruit. Nose is terrific, signature Mouton with the lead pencil and super opulent fruit. Palate is maybe thinning out a touch and doesn’t deliver as much power and energy as it once did. Intoxicating nose, one of my favorites. A lovely sweetness to the red fruit. Rich but developing a softer silkier feel as the tannin integrates and yields to the ripeness.
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3/26/2021 - rlove wrote: 92 Points
The 1989 Mouton has a savory, almost green, character with tobacco, cedar, and sous bois taking front stage to a fruit core of blackberry and raspberry. Wild strawberry on the palate is framed by supple tannins, everything still fresh and pure. Atypical 1989 but you get that Mouton profile, particularly of the heavy oak influence common in this period.
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2/11/2021 - Thierry_D Likes this wine: 95 Points
Jamais été fan de Mouton mais toujours adoré le 1989 ! Une fois de plus il fut grandiose. Tous les ingrédients d’un vin d’exception!
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12/31/2020 - BLam Likes this wine: 95 Points
A new year eve wine for 2020, a tough 2020! A typical mature BDX wine, but still had a lot of energies to go, just like us, should look ahead optimistically under this Corona Virus period. A dark opaque purple color, complex aroma and silky palate, minutes long after taste...still structured well and stayed young. A wine for celebration!
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12/25/2020 - PLS Napa wrote:
Seemed lighter than it should have been. Not off in nose or flavor, just thin. Rudy K? lol
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11/21/2020 - DWStyle Likes this wine: 95 Points
Cork is in excellent condition. Decanted for 1 hr. before tasting.. Drank over 3 1/2 hrs. Delicious. Tannins are ultra fine. Aromas leaped from the glass. Plethora of aroma’s; pencil, smoky wood, cinnamon, moss, plum, roses...Started fading at the 2 hr mark in the decanter. Next bottle decant just to remove sediment and return to the bottle for consumption. Can go for another 5 yrs more with minimal improvement, in my opinion. Nice lengthy finale. Very enjoyable at this age.
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10/24/2020 - MC wrote:
Decanted 2 hours. Elegant, balanced Bordeaux that shows ripe, dark fruits along with classic mature Bordeaux secondaries and is drinking well right now and unlikely to improve any further. Really enjoyed this tonight. A-
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9/20/2020 - Wine MOB Likes this wine: 95 Points
My sense was is that more modest scores for this wine are because of what it is not versus what it is. It is not a typical beast. It is not classic mouton. It is not an over the top fruit bomb from 1989.
This wine is sexy. It had great perfumed feminine nose with red currents, black plums, cedar, lead pencil, tobacco Leaf, green peppercorns, the complexity goes on and on.
Tasted side by side with the 1988. It is much more fresh and expressive than the 88.
Anyone who doesn’t love this wine then send it my way!
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9/12/2020 - Jeff Leve wrote: 92 Points
Disappointing for a First Growth. The issue here is the over-riding sensation of greenness on the nose and palate. The spicy cassis is fresh and straddles the line between sweet and tart, and you also find strong notes of cedar and tobacco. But the intensity of the herbal and pepper notes in the finish really stand out. Lovers of those characteristics will enjoy this more than I did.
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9/2/2020 - mrkoors Likes this wine: 94 Points
An excellent wine that is still drinking well. The oak is starting to mellow and nice flavors of black cherry and currant with what seemed like a light touch of tobcco. A long balanced finish with a little spicy herbs. Still has quite a bit of life left in it.
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6/2/2020 - Claret & CdP Gang Likes this wine:
Posting an old note drank in 2012, light medium red with bricking, cedar box nose with black fruits, earth, complex, medium bodied, just lovely, long, powerful, balanced, intriguing
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5/10/2020 - madmaxcmd Likes this wine: 93 Points
Great bottles to have on Mother's Day with tge family. Steaks, potatoes, asparagus and Bordeaux. Opened both bottj3s at the same time to see how each oxidized and opened in thecsame air. Each bote decanted for 2 hours, too. One was ready yo go soonercso we started there with the appetizers of brie, summer sausage, melin and prosciutto. Sevind bottle was ready to go with diner an hour later. The best thing about well crafted wines is that the wine speaks for itself, no need for flowery verbiage, just content smiles and nods that say it all. Amazing nose, perfect balance of acidity and floral notes, all the typical mouth feels and unctuousness of a premier cru Left Bank Bordeaux. Merci Beaucoup!
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4/11/2020 - KV04 Likes this wine: 93 Points
Good fill, but cork was depressed and for the first time ever I lost the cork into the bottle , it just slipped in at the softest touch (was using screw part of Durant)... color fine , minimal sediment but unfortunately some funk on the nose initially but blew off after 20 minutes or so, the initial tightness opened up and the nose revealing hints of blue fruit, anis, leather, on palate light to mid weight, secondary fruit, some black pepper, tobacco on finish, some pencil shaving, short finish. Overall very nice Bordeaux but not the greatest mouton.
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3/18/2020 - jshufelt wrote: 92 Points
With all that's going on right now, it felt like the right time to revisit the very wine that started it all for me.
Mold cap under the capsule, which was a good sign, but the cork was saturated all the way to the top - a less good sign. Decanted for an hour before service, which was necessary to let some bottle funk blow off, if nothing else. In the glass, a lovely auburn-tinted dark ruby, overall still quite youthful in appearance. On the nose, cedar, tobacco, a hint of mint, and more of that barnyard that never quite went away. On the palate, really opulent and unctuous in texture, almost in Sauternes territory in that respect. Black currants and cedar lead the way for the flavor profile, with potpourri and a bit of oak on a somewhat oxidized finish.
Certainly not what I remember from 2001, but then again, you can never really go home, just visit once in a while. Perhaps that's for the best. Thankfully, we'll have a couple more tries later on...
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3/8/2020 - bobdobilina wrote: 96 Points
Clear bright mahogany color.
Big aromatic claret nose. Worn saddle leather, HB pencil, cigar box.
Mid-weight palate. Lots of blackberries/cassis. Lovely acid and quite firm tannin (which built over the glass). A touch of black pepper and finishes with anise.
Wonderfully balanced, aristocratic bordeaux.
I would say this is in its secondary (not tertiary) phase.
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3/5/2020 - Wine by Bok wrote: 95 Points
STUNNING
It’s been a few years since I tried this wine. In my memory I thought this would have been a big wine, very vanilla driven. Glad to revisit this again after 5 years. Not only it has toned down a lot, it also added a lot more complexity.
I was really impressed with the palate, very broad and very complex, multi-layers of sophistication, great length. Certainly it has improved tremendously compared to the last bottle I had 5 years ago. Kudos to Mouton! more tasting note in finewines.com.sg
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2/15/2020 - gpubols wrote:
I thought it was delicious. Mary didn’t like it much.
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1/17/2020 - Bordeaux_Jon Likes this wine: 100 Points
Definitely awesome!
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12/3/2019 - The Vines That Bind wrote: 93 Points
Pitted against an '86 which wasn't a clean bottle. This particular example was frustratingly youthful and had a lot of blackberry fruit and vanilla aromatic notes, but hadn't rounded out into the meaty opulence that '89 Mouton delivers nicely. Normally these are pretty bombastic and fleshy, but this was tense and dark, which weighs in favour of its cold dark cellar, but which made for a less accessible wine at the expense of development. Still really love this wine.
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11/24/2019 - Collector1855 wrote: 98 Points
Bordeaux 1989 - 30years on in large formats (Luzern): From Double Magnum. This wine made no apologies for being very showy. The nose was the most captivating with and overtly farmyard side to it and lots of oak spices. Hello here I am, lots of toast, smoke but also tons of dark fruit to carry the obvious oak treatment and extraction. Plush palate but not Napaesque, stayed both on the volume and freshness very much in Bordeaux territory. A great showing. For me among the WOTN with Latour, Haut Brion, VCC.
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11/8/2019 - Ericsson wrote: 93 Points
Bordal chez Albert (Vega, Ausone, Haut-Brion, Mouton...) (Chermignon): Aveugle. Belle couleur rubis foncé, brillante.
A mis du temps, 1 heure, avant de s’ouvrir sur des arômes qu’on associe souvent à un Mouton à maturité, boîte à cigares, havane, cassis.
La bouche est caressante, le vin est de constitution moyenne, complexe, avec des tanins polis.
93+
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11/7/2019 - unionst Likes this wine: 99 Points
Dark, concentrated black cherry in color. Lustrous.
Nose: initial nose on decant had beautiful wet tobacco, graphite and dark fruits. Expressive right out of the bottle. Two hour decant. Nose gives signature mint enveloping cassis, black licorice, graphite and cedar notes.
On the palate, an amazing depth and purity of black fruit. Great balance of youthful acidity and polished tannins. At 4 hours also shows ripe red fruits. Incredibly clean wine.
This is a powerful Mouton. At 30 years it is spry. A 50+ year wine for sure.
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11/2/2019 - awede Likes this wine: 97 Points
Jeroboam - perfect bottle!
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10/27/2019 - grapenomad wrote: 95 Points
This stuff is what dreams are made of. Still pretty youthful, showing almost no bottle aging characteristics. The structure is impressive with high acidity and still moderately ample and grippy tannins. Long and layered finish, just right to wrap up another day in paradise.
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10/12/2019 - Axelpeter wrote: 94 Points
Carli60) Eukalyptus und feine Minze
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10/10/2019 - SimonG wrote: 95 Points
Top 89 Bordeaux (Noizé, London): Rich and quite dense. Very showy and sexy when double decanted 4hrs ago, now merely rich, it the palate has put on weight. Good blackcurrant core. Lots of wine here. Just so harmonious.a bit more open and obvious, but hey... *****
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8/8/2019 - aquacongas Likes this wine: 96 Points
Not blind
suprisingly strong, typical Mouton nose. In the middle of Primary and tertiary Aromas. Black currant meets eucalyptus. Second bottle very similar. same case. 96
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4/6/2019 - Thanart wrote:
Very aromatic, good and long lasting palette. Dark ruby color. First phase is black fruit forward. Cedarwood and mushroom that reflect raintree forest character. Cassis and leather notes sometimes. Hint of cocolate and coffee towards the end. 2 hours decanting will reach its peak.
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4/5/2019 - Ericsson Likes this wine: 95 Points
Bordal chez PG (100% Bordeaux) (Collex-Bossy (Genève)): Une des robes les plus légères de la soirée, presque rubis, encore brillant. Au nez, les arômes se dégagent plus lentement, il leur faut une heure pour émerger complètement, tabac blond, fruits rouges, coco.
En bouche, le vin joue la finesse, la persistance, la complexité et une belle harmonie.
Très jolie finale, longue et soyeuse.
Tiendra encore 10 ans sans problème.
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3/18/2019 - Chimer Likes this wine: 92 Points
Very elegant and graceful, beautiful first growth finesse but not the power or density I had anticipated from such a famous vintage. However, bouquet is exquisite and the wine is deceptively long and fine.
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3/16/2019 - Ms. Bubblehead Likes this wine:
This wine is drinking beautifully now. On the nose, gravel, shaved pencil, earthiness, tar, and dark berries, on the palate, very left bank with strong minerals, gravel, soil, yet elegantly balanced with chewy gentle tannin and good acidity. I enjoy this vintage of Mouton as there was a elegant touch on the palate to the long finish. Good to drink now.
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3/12/2019 - renatodug wrote: 96 Points
Epicé, cuir, sous-bois. Grande longueur. Décanté une heure. Beaucoup de dépôts, mais tient vraiment bien la route après 30 ans. Bien meilleure impression que lors de ma dernière dégustation il y a quelques semaines.
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3/12/2019 - Ben Christiansen wrote:
Powerful and fresh but old bookcase too
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1/17/2019 - James Kim Likes this wine: 93 Points
For Clare's B-day. Brought by Nathan. Slow ox'ed but not sure for how long. From memory. Cigar box, cedar, pencil shavings, cassis, red berries, herbs, and a bit of earth, and still some mild tannins in elegant frame. Lively in the mouth with excellent acids. This was really beautiful and drinking so well.
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1/1/2019 - Winemaker51 Likes this wine: 97 Points
Decanted for 2 hours. Slight brick tones, but still a dark red color. Aroma was ethereal with trademark Mouton exotic (truffle, damp earth) and lots of pencil lead/Cabernet in Pauillac. Some brown sugar and tertiary notes. Flavor was flawless with lots of black berry and dark cherry flavors, Cabernet spice and rusticity. Virtually no tannin grip. This wine is in it’s prime! We drank from a Magnum that had a slight leak. So, I’m sure any bottles out there without any leakers will be prime!
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12/21/2018 - Ianthemac Likes this wine: 95 Points
A game of two halves. The first bottle was Brett Central- pretty funky and barnyardy on the nose but superb on the palate. The second was sublime. Stunning dark fruit and sous bois nose with refined tannins and a gorgeous silky finish. Simply, simply lovely.
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12/10/2018 - BradE wrote:
A nice bottle, somewhat on the fleshy forward side.
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11/28/2018 - LWI wrote: 97 Points
High IN fill. Black berries, tobacco, graphite, and most complex nose -- regal; structured and youthful, tannic finish, balanced and long. Complex finish. A very youthful bottle -- holding even more promise.
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11/25/2018 - Aleks Che Likes this wine: 97 Points
CHE97
Top! But young! 5-10 years to open
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11/11/2018 - europat55 wrote: 95 Points
Platinum Tasting - First Growths from the 80's (with two 2nd growth ringers) (Andre and Sabine's House, Mountain View, CA): Nose: A-/A Taste: A/A+
My #4, Group's #4. Tasted Blind
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9/9/2018 - renatodug wrote: 90 Points
Le ménisque commence à brunir, il accuse son âge. Nez très puissant de bois grillé, goudron, réglisse, humus, et quelque chose de frais comme du fenouil (?) L'impression se confirme en bouche mais la puissance est un peu étouffée.
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9/1/2018 - nittanyjack Likes this wine:
Just below the neck fill. Decanted for about an hour, back in the bottle and slow ox at the restaurant for another hour. Almost no sediment. Similar notes to MC below. I think this bottle could have used a little more air. The wine was a little thin in the mid palate at first, but really gained body during the meal. The last glass was the best. Beautiful mature Bordeaux.
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8/28/2018 - Andre Brattland wrote: 96 Points
Intense and fiery aromas with deliciously mature tobacco, delicious blackcurrant and light mint. Really classic and great aroma.
Concentrated yet delightful silky mouthfeel. Beautiful fruity blackberries and blackcurrants. Lightly sweetened tobacco. Mature great tannins. Long slightly creamy finish. Great balanced Mouton. Maybe the little x factor is lacking, but well preserved, this is a great wine. 96 points.
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8/19/2018 - fcxj wrote: 88 Points
It's fine, but hardly exciting.
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6/24/2018 - MC wrote:
Alias/Classic Imports label on the front. Just below base neck and cork saturated to the top. Decanted 2.5 hours. Nice, mature, classic Bordeaux. This had good fruit, minerals, some earth, and nice balance. Not a wow wine, but good with food. Not worth the current price IMO, but should be around for some time. A-
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6/16/2018 - Zweder wrote: 95 Points
Bordeaux 1989 (@ Monarh): Complex bouquet with earth, coffee and mocha. On the palate chocolate, beautiful dark berries, autumn impressions, some sweetness, juicy acidity and still powerful robust tannin. Still a future until at least 2022.
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6/16/2018 - renatodug wrote: 92 Points
Goudron, réglisse, bois grillé, faisandé, terre... grande complexité. En bouche, très viril, peu tannique, équilibré. Grande longueur. J’avais prélevé deux verres avec Coravin un an avant, sans conséquence, visiblement.
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6/15/2018 - NoTrollingerPlease Likes this wine: 95 Points
Private barbecue (@Private location): Complex and quiet intense nose with Tobacco, leather, pencil shavings, cassis , spices and a little floral perfume. Still very closed and not fully developed.
On the palate a perfect, but still undeveloped tannin structure. Silky texture, lots of complex flavors, spices, red and dark fruit. Very good balance, lots of pressure and tension. Already great to drink, but it screams to me with every sip: Let me sleep at least for another decade! Great experience though! Great potential: 95++
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5/22/2018 - peternelson wrote: 94 Points
Medium ruby-black with light brown hues; lovely Mouton nose off the bat with dark pipe tobacco, exotic spices, dried cassis, some underbrush and smoke, leather chair; silky and smooth on the palate, medium fine tannins like espresso sediment, i balance, excellent structure without being overbearing. Qute long. This is hitting its prime right about now and will go for a long time. At the Royce at the Langham w/Yarom, Ron, Arnie, Larry, Terry. after a couple hours turned a little austere, not helped much by comparing with Abreu and Grange.
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5/1/2018 - DrZett wrote: 93 Points
Beautifully aged Mouton with amazing wet forest soil and leathery notes in the nose and soft but very precise red fruit notes on the palate. Very elegant body and a beautiful structure. Medium Long finish. Needs some air (60min) to open up completely.
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4/20/2018 - The wine yummy wise Likes this wine: 94 Points
Complex and intense bouquet which unwound itself right from the start. Tobacco, leather, pencil shavings, cassis , spices and a little floral perfume was some of the salient nuances. It’s was also rather smoky for the 1st 2hrs which I enjoyed throughly
The palate however took its own sweet time (3hrs) to show its nice cassis, liquorice and tobacco with a ultra Long finish.
The nose had a very distinct quality to it and was clearly a cut above the rest I had but while the palate was good, it’s just lack that special touch that one would expect from a 1st growth.
Overall, while this bottle was not the best example I believe as the cork was soaked right through but still it gave me a very enjoyable and memorable experience just not the hedonistic kind that one would expect at this price point.
Let’s just say that this wine wooed me but did not wowed me.
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4/7/2018 - demiurg wrote: 96 Points
I wish today's Bordeaux would still taste like this. Fabulous stuff.
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3/9/2018 - europat55 wrote: 96 Points
Nose: A+ Palate: A-/A
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3/1/2018 - Comte Flaneur wrote: 93 Points
This has a super red fruited entry with some leanness on the palate. Similar to the bottle we had a few weeks ago it lacks the complexity and heft of the best 1989s but it is a delightful bottle of claret if you are rich enough to drink it on a regular basis. Paul described it as a good luncheon claret which is a little unfair in my opinion. My seventh equal wine of the night at our vertical.
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1/20/2018 - aChave Likes this wine: 96 Points
Superb. Opened 3 hrs ahead but only a 30 min decant. Lovely fragrance and balance. Still has nice structure underlying moderately open fruit. Everything on its place. An outstanding example. Worthy of its pedigree. With its structure and acidity it should easily weather another 10-15+ years.
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1/18/2018 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 94 Points
Decanted for 30 mins before serving and enjoy over a 3 hour dinner. 89 Mouton is drinking beautifully with cassis, tea leaf, tobacco, cedar and blood. Palate has round fruit with softened and silky tannins. The first growth class and texture are well refected. A classic Paulliac that has the balance between power and finesse. It is drinking well with many years left. The wine is 1 point above last time as decanting really helps in bringing the best out of this. 93-94
I have received 2-3 comments on instagram saying this is a weird mouton vintage which I absolutely disagree. I think I have tried enough vintages of mouton to say this is a good classic mouton (let alone the legendary vintages like 82,86). This is perhaps the most underrated Mouton vintage, showing much better than 95 and 96 at this point which are supposed to be the good (or better) vintages for Mouton after 89. Happy to seek out for it again. But in terms of qpr, for a 89 bordeaux, lynch bages and palmer are more competitive choices.
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1/17/2018 - Markus IWC wrote: 96 Points
Bordeaux BYOB #14: fully mature but still alert and powerful fruit. Cedar, grass, pencil lead, cigarr, black currant, coffee and hints of mushrooms on the nose. Some meaty notes. Elegant and rich body, fine tuned and sophisticated, nice acidity, huge complex wine. Perfect to drink now but will develop beautifully for 5+ years. 96p, votes 8. My contribution to this BYOB.
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12/27/2017 - europat55 wrote: 93 Points
Nose: A-/A Palate: B++/A-
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12/16/2017 - MWiking wrote: 95 Points
snyggt vin med stall läder och cassis toner, väldigt bra balans mellan mognad och fräschör. klockrent
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12/14/2017 - Patrik H Likes this wine: 94 Points
On the nose: Typical Bourdeaux, stable, leather, soil, cigarrbox, cedar.
On the palate: Leather, cigarr, soil, stable, very nice balanced acidity.
The fruit is still very living and the wine is in harmony.
Medium + finish
Always a pleasure to try this kind of wines
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11/22/2017 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 93 Points
Classic left bank with tobacco, black fruit and forest. Very smoothe on the palate with silky tannins. An underrated 89 that is drinking very well.
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10/26/2017 - TexasBob Likes this wine: 92 Points
Deep red-violet, albeit fairly transparent, if that makes any sense. Macerated rose and violet petals with red fruits on the nose. Thin-bodied, slightly sour notes of raspberry and a general touch of umami in the finish. Quite delicious, especially the finish, which gives a sense of satisfaction meriting the high score.
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10/5/2017 - R.Jos.Valent Likes this wine: 95 Points
Co-hosted a wine dinner with the famous Riddy Roberts Enjoyed a line up of 88 & 89 First Growths. This Mouton showed best - After 3 hour decant displayed terrific Ruby hue, great legs, mouth filling cherry, and damp
forest floor. Finish lasted 40+ seconds.
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9/18/2017 - casaallora Likes this wine: 96 Points
Beautiful leather bound book color upon decanting. As decanted presented with aromas of leather & cedar. Decanted 1 Hour. Outstanding legs. Balanced concentration producing a smooth flavorful polished wine. Flavor of heavy cherries. Great finish with balanced tannins. This wine is ready to be consumed. Decant and enjoy.
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8/15/2017 - Ramberg wrote: 95 Points
No formal notes.
Served (as always, blind) next to the Mouton 1990.
The nose here is even better and more delicious and classic.
Great streaks of cedar wood, tobacco leafs, fine cigar wrapper leafs, truffles, Pauillac gravel, earth, leather, dark berries, black currant and black currant leafs with a fine dose of ethereal barnyard/stable or the extra lovely spice.
The nose of the 1990 is sure a fine one, but this is much better.
The palate is simply superb.
Silky, yet powerful, with great clean fruit, opening up to show a very fine spectrum of layers and layers of fruits & berries, secondary, more mature notes, with lots of Perigord truffles, earth, dark fruits, cigar box, mushrooms, wet and decaying leafs, tobacco, some fine chocolate.
A very complex and extraordinary Mouton, with superb balance.
Perhaps the best I have had even?
Anyway, a simply great Mouton entering a very fine drinking window.
Still room for improvement, but amazing where is it right now.
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8/4/2017 - Sean Tay wrote:
The wine looks garnet colored. It smells like blackberry, blueberry, cranberry, red currant, toast, mushroom and black pepper.
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7/27/2017 - The Vines That Bind wrote: 93 Points
Consistent with past notes. A particularly ripe and juicy bottle tonight, perfect at an old NYC steakhouse. Opulent and hedonistic drinking, but still has nuanced Mouton character... lead pencil and damp leather.
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7/18/2017 - vespasian wrote:
Garnet core, quite a fade at the rim; notes of terracotta, warm spice, evolved mature cedar & cigar and heady berried fruits. Quite exotic; very smooth palate, lovely textural tannins. A complex and flavoursome mouthful and I'd say peaking now, no need to wait longer. A little drying on the finish and in light of this I'd drink sooner rather than later
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7/15/2017 - MAXIMUM SATISFACTION wrote: 94 Points
Decanted for 3 hours and seemed to plateau near the end of this time frame. Still very structured with moderate tannin. Palate wise dominated by eucalyptus, wet cedar, lead, damp soil, menthol, aged leather, and baked blackberry. Has plenty of time but secondary notes currently dominate. I would start drinking.
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6/23/2017 - mikita77 Likes this wine: 98 Points
Classy classic. Great array of aromes on the nose, from dark fruit to old leather, wet forest floor and overripe lillies. On the palate there are hardly any tannins. Tiny bit austere, marking this to be no voloptuous wine but a classic. Russian ballet rather than modern dance. Very enjoyable, a real treat and an honour to drink this, considering the grapes formed when Europe was still divided and matured after the Berlin wall had fallen.
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6/10/2017 - Mr Barsac Likes this wine: 98 Points
Dark plum core leading to brick with almost-generous transparent rim.
Subtle but dramatic nose of roasted game, macerated prunes, pencil lead and a menthol lift.
Grippy filigree tannins. Very dense palate of sun-dried cranberries, green bell pepper and spicy black peppercorns.
Long, stimulating finish.
Quintessentially classical claret. Delicious now but will also keep for up to 8 more years.
[Blind tasted in a rain storm in Singapore alongside Cheval Blanc '85]
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6/4/2017 - DoubleD1969 wrote: 94 Points
Pretty much agree with the notes from DCWINO on May 10th. Youthful color and beautiful aromas of cassis, cedar, and dark chocolate. The palate was rich and elegant with silky tannins and a sweet, fruit-candy roll-up finish. My only complaint was that the bottle was empty and didn't get a second glass!
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5/16/2017 - The Vines That Bind wrote: 93 Points
Mouton Rothschild Vertical Dinner (Vaucluse): Lead pencil and tobacco leaf. Rich and meaty. Palate is in line with past experiences with dense and rich dark berry and currant juice, textured with good classic Bordeaux earth. My gateway drug - consistently love this...
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5/16/2017 - Kemo Sabe Likes this wine: 94 Points
Much richer than the 90 or 88 in next glass. More fruit and the nose would indicate a younger wine. Rich and expressive. Best in the flight of 90, 89 and 88.
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5/10/2017 - dcwino wrote: 95 Points
Mouton dinner with Philippe Dhalluin and Bernard Burtschy (Taberna del Alabardero, Washington D.C.): Youthful expressive nose displaying bright red fruit and cassis, very floral, sweet spices, dark milk chocolate, cedar and peppery mineral. Beautifully integrated palate, medium concentration, silky and polished, bright acidity and silky tannins and a long harmonious finish. I actually like the 89, for the harmony and balance. It is not an impressive but a classy Mouton.
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5/1/2017 - MicklethePickle Likes this wine: 91 Points
This has evolved beautifully. Solid, nearly opaque dark ready, browning near the rim. Excellent viscosity. The nose showed a bit of metallic funk to begin, but it quickly blew off to reveal nice mulberry and plum fruit with graphite and minerals. Some menthol. The tannins are resolved, leaving a smooth, sexy wine in their wake. The flavors are pretty, fine and hint at sweetness as well. Seamless in the mouth as it glides across the palate. Slightly dry on the finish, but should keep for at least a few years. That said, this wine has peaked and should be enjoyed in the near term. 4-13-16-8: 91/100.
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4/9/2017 - KenK Likes this wine: 96 Points
From magnum and served against over 20 other high end wines at Chez Moi. This stole the show and was voted clear WOTN. A very pleasant surprise as I thought Mouton underperformed in 1989. Insider secret, buy this wine.
Classic aromas of mature Bordeaux, cigar box, forest floor, dried black cherry that carried through on the palate. Not faded, but instead rich and well balanced with wonderful spices and nuance throughout. A wow wine. Was decanted for sediment and back into bottle for about 2 hours prior to serving. Special stuff.
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3/17/2017 - aquacongas Likes this wine: 93 Points
A classical Bordeaux, a lot of cassis, leather, earthy, cedarbox, middleweight body, fine tannins, and good acidity strurcture, for me in his drinking window, long finish with spicy notes, some mints in the aftertaste
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3/13/2017 - boknan Likes this wine: 94 Points
STUNNING
It's been a few years since I tried this wine. In my memory I thought this would have been a big wine, very vanilla driven. Glad to revisit this again after 5 years. Not only it has toned down a lot, it also added a lot more complexity.
I was really impressed with the palate, very broad and very complex, multi-layers of sophistication, great length. Certainly it has improved tremendously compared to the last bottle I had 5 years ago. Kudos to Mouton!
Check out my other tasting notes here:
finewines.com.sg
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3/1/2017 - dcwino wrote: 94 Points
Dinner with Zachys crew (Blacksalt, Washington DC): Youthful expressive nose displaying cassis, strong lead pencil, bitter chocolate, cedar and earth. Excellent concentration, cassis and lead pencil driven palate impression, good acidity and mineral presence, and a long cassis and cedar driven finish. It displays excellent concentration but a bit masculine and not terribly complex. This is a very solid Mouton.
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2/28/2017 - Hill of Grace wrote: 92 Points
Still had nice color and even some dark fruit left. Nice savory notes like sage and thyme. I love the core of wet mossy like river stones.
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2/18/2017 - FamilyLarsson wrote: 96 Points
Detta är verkligen en klassisk elegant Bordeaux. Ljuvlig doft med mörk elegant frukt, svampskog, piptobak, blyerts. Otroligt ren och snygg med fin syra och silkiga tanniner med väldigt långt slut
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2/3/2017 - tinybubbles Does not like this wine: 87 Points
Acceptable nose, less impressive palate. Dry with a slight bitterness on the finish.
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1/26/2017 - Yiannis Likes this wine: 98 Points
Such a great wine! Medium to dark garnet. Cedar, ink, graphite, spice, coffee and red berry fruit on the nose. Medium to full-bodied, perfectly balanced and complex with a long aftertaste. At a great stage to drink right now but can keep further. Exotic and elegant. A wow wine.
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1/26/2017 - Stefanos T. Likes this wine: 98 Points
One of the best first growths I have ever tasted - which naturally and by default means one the finest wines in general I have had the pleasure to drink.
We did not decant but the wine was ready to go from the start. The aroma was rich, sweet, sexy and seductive and it did evolve in our glasses throughout the evening. We had this wine along two lauded vintages of Chateau Montrose, 1989 and 1990. These wines though also remarkable were more austere, sterner while Mouton was as they say 'exotic'. At the peak of its maturity it offers notes of chocolate, coffee, earth, spices, menthol, rare wood, cedar, decaying forest flora. Actually I cannot describe this wine, it was just so intoxicating.
On the palate it was quite full bodied with velvety texture, supple tanins, sweet, flavorful, long. A perfect wine... We hit the bull's eye with this wine! Actually for me preferable to the two more highly praised vintages of Montrose with the caveat that the 1990 Montrose has not yet reached its peak.
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1/13/2017 - Saadissimo Likes this wine: 92 Points
Still has legs. The usual Pauillac aromas, on the palate well-rounded and smooth, and what a finish! Not sure if there is much more to come.
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12/24/2016 - Cgrant1029 Likes this wine: 97 Points
Decanted for 60-90 minutes. Really great nose, still plenty of fruit and well balanced. Drinking perfectly, this bottle wasn't over the hill at all.
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12/16/2016 - dalemosier Likes this wine: 92 Points
Drank 3 bottles for special dinner 1989 Mouton, 1987 Lafite, and 2007 Qintessa. Mouton smoothest, strong earthy tobacco nose and taste. Probably several years past its prime; Lafite could even get better - more complexity. Quintessa outstanding fruit - hold another 5 years to balance out.
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12/9/2016 - BigJ Likes this wine:
Small pour from a bottle that had been decanted for 30 minutes.
Mature profile but still fresh with good vigour.
The nose showed leather, tobacco, olive and a hint of cassis. The palate was a touch younger tasting than I expected following the nose, full, bright berry notes with cocoa, cigar and an olive brine. Lovely wine.
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12/4/2016 - sergiozy wrote: 98 Points
wow
had this one a few years ago and it was too young
had these wines since primieur
demented
drank beatifully
full of fruit no acidity ,wonder if i should hold the rest or just drink
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11/26/2016 - MC wrote:
Decanted an hour, and enjoyed over the next hour wit dinner. Similar to my last note - classic Bordeaux. Maybe a touch thin, but I still really enjoy it with food. Only nit is there is a slight dryness on the finish. Not worth the current price, but certainly is a very good Bordeaux for my palate. Drink now. A-
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10/22/2016 - Mazy Likes this wine: 92 Points
PNP. Bu seul après le repas.
Un vin de finesse, avec encore un peu de tannins et d'acidité donc pourrait être gardé quelques années, mais super en ce moment - pour moi l'éponyme d'un vieux Bordeaux de classe.
On est principalement en tertiaire (cuir, champignons, mousse) avec une robe brique claire, mais il persiste du fruit derrière. Un bel équilibre, une belle longueur. Très beau.
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9/11/2016 - rocknroller wrote: 90 Points
First Growths at Capital Grille (Capitalle Grille, Mpls, MN): Very dark red/purple color. This had gotten a couple hours of air. Drank 1 glass over 90 minutes plus. This bottle just wasn;t as forthcoming as we'd have liked. Still good, but still pretty enveloped in wood and firm tannin. The nose is in good shape, red fruits and pencil lead on top the wood. The palate is more dark and brooding with the wood still gripping this tightly.
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7/8/2016 - MC wrote:
Base neck. Classic Bordeaux. Decanted 45 minutes, and drank very well with food. Maybe a touch thin, and possible more air would have helped, but very enjoyable. A-
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7/5/2016 - JJB007 Likes this wine: 100 Points
truly spectacular
we did a sisde by side with the 1986 and this one out hence the second bottle
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5/26/2016 - Burgundy Al wrote: 93 Points
Older Bordeaux Evening with Friends (Les Nomades - Chicago IL): Black currant and plum with cigarbox. Dense and meaty. Still brooding despite several hours in decanter. Impressive length. Upside from here.
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5/24/2016 - AV2012 wrote: 92 Points
Paris Judgement 40th Anniversary: More herbal and lighter than Monte Bello '88 we had alongside. Fresh and soft, very lively and juicy. What a wine!
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5/16/2016 - ricknat1 wrote:
still very tight and tannic and a little dry. May be the bottle although many said they have had better but no one reported those were great
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5/12/2016 - cephomer Likes this wine: 94 Points
Tasters Guild International; New York City Guild (NYC): Drank at 1989 bordeaux tasting at Tasters Guild in NYC. Wonderfully expressive nose of lead pencil, cedar and earth--best nose of any wine this evening. Still some sweet black cherries on the palate, with lots of cedar, leather, and soil. Some funky barnyard elements here too, with great depth & concentration & richness. A delicious, rich, densely concentrated and fleshy wine that is in excellent form. Hugely satisfying this nite.
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5/6/2016 - The Vines That Bind wrote: 93 Points
BYO Dinner (Tocqueville): Similar notes to last time, the lead pencil and damp earth is just awesome. Another really strong showing here, too young if one complaint but just so hedonistic right now. Juicy red cedar-laden fruit. Served this blind to a room of fairly impressive tasters, appellation and vintage were called and one real pro nailed it. Love this every time.
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4/25/2016 - The Vines That Bind wrote: 92 Points
Classic Mouton nose of lead pencil, red cedar, damp leather, damp soil, and some powerful black currant. Exactly what one should hope for out of this, showing great construction and a satisfying bit of development while retaining power and potential. So dense and flavorful. Tannins have actually totally integrated as well with only a bit of grip. Fruit is still a little sappy and syrupy. A beautiful showing, hard not to love right now but can be revisited in a few more years for hopefully even better results.
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4/16/2016 - danielk168 wrote: 91 Points
cork held but completely soaked through, definitely storage problem here. nose was good but bodied rather thin, typical heat damage?
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4/8/2016 - d'Artagnan wrote: 94 Points
Verticale du Château Mouton Rothschild: Un nez de viande et de fruit rouge (cassis). La bouche est ronde et grasse, ce qui m'évoque le 1989, même si c'est celui qui parait le plus jeune. Elle offre une belle fraicheur, avec concentration et élégance. Un vin assez gourmand, d'une belle concentration, fruité et fin à la fois. Délicieux. 94 pts
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4/8/2016 - Vmaster007 Likes this wine: 96 Points
Wow, ce vin fut magnifique! Un nez envoutant et raccoleur, tout ce qui me rappelle la raison pour laquelle j'aime les bordeaux avec de l'âge. Épices fines, tabac, mûres et tannins très agréables en bouche. Ce vin peut encore évoluer, mais il est présentement en très bonne forme.
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1/28/2016 - nywine68 Likes this wine: 94 Points
1989 vs. 1990 Bordeaux (Vaucluse): 89 vs 90 tasting. The 90 was flawed so no comparison but the 89 was a beautiful wine. A very elegant nose with deep saturated cherry flavors.
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1/14/2016 - Sean Tay wrote:
Deep ruby in colour. Medium+ acidity and medium tannin. Earth, pencil lead, cedar and black fruits. Tasted during Chinese steamboat. First mouton I ever tried. First love.
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1/8/2016 - NineteenEightyTwo Likes this wine: 93 Points
Medium-light crimson color, with mature bricking throughout. Nose of cotton candy and lemon juice to start. Two hours in the decanter allows this to evolve a dark, oily aroma of shoe polish. The palate has the monolithic smoothness common to mature Mouton Rothschild, with neverending black fruit expressed in seamless totality. However, this is less dense and persistent than the 1985, and does not contain multitudes like the endlessly amorphous 1982. Tannins are resolved; this is optimally mature. I'd enjoy this over the next five years.
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12/17/2015 - nywine68 wrote:
Extremely soft. No structure left. Pretty mature Bordeaux flavors but only medium complexity.
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11/28/2015 - englishman's claret wrote: 95 Points
Big nose of cigar smoke, coffee, chocolate, pencil, and capsicum right out of the gate. A small quibble is a touch too much toast on the oak, which is a shame as it steals a bit of the nose, doesn't it? The green notes quieted down after a bit and some more fruit came to the fore but the coffee & Cuban cigar notes remained dominant. Lots of muscle and swagger, even for Mouton. But lurking... there's some delicious mineral-tinged lavender and plump currant fruit. It's a faint suggestion of what you can find in the 82 but it's there. If you turned those notes up and turned the capsicum down, you'd really have a star. Do other bottles show it more? Will it be more apparent in 5 years?
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11/26/2015 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 93 Points
Drank from an imperial. Nose had leather, tobacco, soil, graphite and sous bois. Palate was smooth and silky with some fruit left. A very balanced and mature bordeaux.
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10/24/2015 - La Cave d'Argent Likes this wine: 99 Points
2015 New York Wine Experience Trip; 10/19/2015-10/27/2015 (New York City, NY): Back when this wine was released, there were some critics who got it right, and some who were embarrassingly wrong. Now hitting its stride, the '89 Mouton (a blend of 78% Cabernet Sauvignon, 14% Cabernet Franc and 8% Merlot) is an evolved, complex wine laden with plum, leather, cigar box, sage, pickling spice, truffle and cocoa. Full-bodied and with surprisingly good acidity (considering the vintage), it has seamless alcohol and still has a fair amount of sweet tannins. The mid-palate presence is impressive and the finish is very long. Stunning stuff, this is one which should drink well over the next 2-3 decades. Drink now-2040.
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10/16/2015 - bajayngo wrote:
1989 Vintage Blind Tasting Event - Wine #2 - This had more layers than the other wines from my notes with peppers, barnyard and dark fruits. Was expansive on the palate with back end tannins and a long finish. The layers showed is quality but this also was in the middle of the pack for me blind.
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10/12/2015 - Ebrim Likes this wine: 95 Points
Clean and clear with medium garnet colour, developing.
On the nose it's medium+ intense w/aromas of: dark plums, ceder, tobacco, medicine cabin, oak, liquorice, meat, red pepper and some herbs. Developing
on the palate it has medium acidity, tannins and % and medium+ body and flavour intensity w/aromas of: tobacco, ceder, dark plums, red pepper, tobacco, oak, medicine cabin, much like the nose. Long aftertaste.
very well balanced, complex and insanely concentrated, very much more intese than expected when 12.5%. Incredible long finish and this has potential for many more years, difficult to believe that it was 26 years old. only thing i missed was a bit more acidity, but still outstanding world class quality, 95p
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10/11/2015 - Motz wrote: 93 Points
Left Bank, Right Bank, Left Side, Left Coast — 1989 Vintage Blind Tasting Event — Wine 2 (3 Liter): Reticent bouquet from the outset, but so much stuffing on the palate. Could not get a handle on it in the glass it was served in, found the largest Bordeaux glass available and BOOM!...it came to life, showing the finest elements of Pauillac terroir. Knew it was the Mouton. Not my WOTN (tied for third), but certainly the best made.
Brought about 12 ounces home to evaluate the following day. It is still a big wine, somewhat dense, showing considerable greenness. It paired stunningly with a well seasoned (fresh rosemary, basil, and cilantro) charcoal grilled beef patty.
In this format, the wine probably has ten to twelve years of life ahead of it. 93-94.
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10/4/2015 - AWBryce wrote: 94 Points
Amazingly complex nose. Salinity like fresh oyseters, fruity, cinnamon, vanilla. Still tannic, good acidity, long finish.
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8/29/2015 - MC wrote:
Base neck fill. Decanted about 90 minutes, this was just spot on what you would want from a Bordeaux. Lead pencil, cool fruit, structure in the background at this point, this wine was great with food and also a nice way to wind down the evening. Should hold for a while. Wish I had more. A-/A
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8/24/2015 - RayOB Likes this wine: 97 Points
Drank at Bob Bob Ricards
Still going strong with a rich complex nose and a full body. Amazing.
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8/10/2015 - Wine_lvr Likes this wine: 93 Points
Mature red. Nose shows dark espresso and horse saddle. Lots of herbal notes. Nice length and balance. Smooth tannins. This was a very mature bottle but still a great wine.
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8/4/2015 - jmoore431 wrote: 97 Points
Best bottle of this so far; Asian spices, exotic character, coconut; literally dances across the palate. Beautiful!!!
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7/12/2015 - espesqpa@gmail.com wrote: 97 Points
Great color, tarry berried nose, full of life, 60+ second finish, drank with a prime rib, went wonderfully, had in the company with a La Mission and a Margaux. A totally great dinner.
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6/27/2015 - yofog wrote:
Big and round, with a pile of cassis and a backbone of iron, with inflections of red meat. Not the tremendous depth of the 96 but a big, solid wine with low alcohol and just enough raciness to keep it all balanced and classic. All fruit and cedar and iron. Delicious
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5/14/2015 - MEKWINE Likes this wine: 96 Points
Imbibed in Provence. Deep robe and garnet rim. This wine evolved and improved in the glass over the course of a couple of hours. First dip into the glass and we got a whiff of lead pencil and tobacco leaf. Quite reserved on the palate, and expectations of more stuffing were high. All that said, it came around and just took a tad longer. Hints of cassis, cedar, tobacco and a touch of umami. Quite rounded and medium bodied. Overall, this bottle could be characterised as exuding elegance over power.
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4/22/2015 - Loren Sonkin wrote: 93 Points
First Growths, Yquem, 100+Madeira (John V.'s): Really a nice wine, but outclassed by the company it was in. Ruby in color with slight browning. The nose has a nice Bordeaux funk with some dried red cherries. A little bit of cedar with some pencil lead. This is consistent with the other Mouton's on the table if a bit past prime. There is a nice complexity here although it is a bit soft on the palate. Still some fruit left and the tannins seem resolved. Nice balance. These should be drunk up soon.
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3/20/2015 - Goldstone Likes this wine: 93 Points
Dinner at Otto e Mezzo (Otto e Mezzo, Alexandra House, Central, Hong Kong): Decanted for around 3 hours. Beautiful bright-jewelled translucent dark ruby red colour. Nose is Wow!.....low bass notes of black Puh Ehr tea, chinese dried mushrooms, forest floor, cedar trees, graphite, pencil shavings....hedonistic.....very First Growth and resonates inside your sinuses then just keeps opening up more and more. Brilliant. Palate is still quite tannic and young, very structured but with super graphite linearity, a fugue on pencil sharpenings and a purity of black berry and currant fruits. Brooding, growling, hibernating resonance......this needs another 5-10 years to really open up. You drink this for the nose at the moment. Lovely.
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3/9/2015 - FransS wrote: 95 Points
The wine had only two hours in the carafe, so in the start the tannins were still a bit severe (I thought it was a super-2004), but in the glass the development continued. Lots of black fruit in the bouquet supported by the delicate cedarwood hallmark of Mouton. Full bodied, very vigorous, noticable tannins and everything in the right place. This wine still has the power to continue for a decade. With more air up to 97 point? A big surprise from Loek during a perfect dinner in De Bokkedoorns.
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3/7/2015 - mwanasheria Likes this wine: 94 Points
Mouton-Rothschild Tasting (Kronenschlösschen, Eltville): Bouquet of scorched earth, smoke, raisins yet some freshness. On the palate some plum, wet stone, graphite. Nice.
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2/6/2015 - hiker_guy Likes this wine:
Beautiful wine, though the '89 Mission Haut Brion slightly beat this out for wine of the night for me.
Dark, rich with absolutely no signs of age, this took quite awhile to open up. There was the rich tobacco and dark fruit on the finish, some leather. A nice richness.
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2/1/2015 - Frank Murray III wrote:
Pretty dope wine here. Fresh and lively, with cedar, dusty red fruit. I wish I could re-taste this today and experience it another time. And like with the 88 Vieux Telegraph we had alongside it, there was no obvious age or age-like characteristics here. Just really alive and drinking great.
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1/9/2015 - Chuck Miller wrote:
Lovely, mature bottle on a 10 year plateau. A charred oak note typical of Mouton, but not obtrusive.
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1/4/2015 - David J Cooper wrote: 94 Points
Quite dark red. Beautiful nose, coffee bean, black currant, bell pepper, mushrooms and house dust. Delicious earthy dark fruit and mineral flavours. The finish is long and still fairly tannic.
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12/25/2014 - HowardNZ Likes this wine:
A Comparative Bordeaux blends tasting (France, NZ, US etc) with Peter: A profound nose of dark cherries, cassis, blackcurrant, cedar and graphite, a clear marker for this wine's class. Also notes of spice, dry underbrush and tobacco leaf, showing some development. A lovely palate, very complex and detailed. Still seeming quite primary, there is excellent structure and acidity here. The wine has a freshness, intensity, elegance and a leaner style I really like. It has beautifully integrated tannins. Superb. Everyone recognised this as a First Growth Bordeaux. In its optimal drinking window now, I thought. Cabernet Sauvignon 78%, Cabernet Franc 14% and Merlot 8%.
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12/14/2014 - BBinSC wrote: 95 Points
95-97: stunning Mouton -- tannins have eased, but the acid and fruit are still there, making me think this wine has much life and some improvement before peaking. Finish went on and on, and balance was impeccable. Outstanding.
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10/13/2014 - vindictive wrote:
Bordeaux dinner - first growths, blancs and d'Yquem. Bottle, fill and cork all good -(label water damaged). Excellent and one of the best tonight. Beautiful aromatics with blackberry, earth etc.. This was breathing for about 4 hours before dinner. Should last a few more decades, but superb now.
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9/30/2014 - MC wrote:
VHS/TS, decanted 2 hours. Dark red for its age, with a wonderful nose of forest floor, red fruits, lead pencil. Balanced wine, showing very nice fruit, but pure Bordeaux, with only a slight drying note on the finish to keep it from great for me. A-
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8/16/2014 - PT insurgent wrote:
The Sampler London Kensington (The Sampler London Kensington): Half bottle.
Nose of forest floor, cedar, leather, leafy, blackcurrant, eucalyptus, cigar box.
Palate of cedar, cigar box, blackcurrant leaf, earth, cherry, tobacco, leather.
Wonderful.
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7/5/2014 - sdwineguru Likes this wine: 94 Points
Mid-garnet, amber edges; terroir, cedar, tobacco, cassis, Cabernet nose; mid-big body; balanced; good tannins; opens with air; long, rich, elegant finish.
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5/17/2014 - mwanasheria wrote: 94 Points
1989 in the Rheingau (Eltville, Rheingau, Germany): Bouquet of smoke, licorice, scorched earth, pencil shavings. On the palate fresh (green?), yet sweet. A nice showing.
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3/15/2014 - PJT 1986 wrote: 95 Points
This bottle was perfectly stored, the cork was moldy and super spongy. after an hour in the decanter the room started to smell of violets, earth spice, raspberry, blackberry, and pencil shavings. This Mouton is feminine and delicate, and differs hugely from the exotic, muscular Mouton produced nowadays. It offers a graceful palate, charming and multilayered with great complexity. The intensity is lighter than I expected. This wine is in a lovely place right now! 95 points
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3/9/2014 - johnh1001 wrote: 94 Points
Decanted for two hours and could have gone much longer. Forward nose of dark fruit, leather, herbs and a mineral quality. More dark fruit and a bit of smoke on the palate. Big and robust, this still seemed tight. Nice grip on the long finish. Needs a few years.
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3/8/2014 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 93 Points
A private dinner at a friend's (Amsterdam): Paired with Mouton 1978. Wonderfully rich and warm style, typically Mouton, attractive, initially the wine feels rather light mid-palate but this fills out nicely in the glass, the tannins stick out a bit initially but they soften with aeration as the wine comes together, good flavour intensity; very good length.
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1/10/2014 - Lord Rayas wrote: 94 Points
Dinner with Martin, Eric, Andy, Philip and wives (Drawing Room): decanted for an hour. complex aroma of tobacco and spice. lovely.
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12/18/2013 - jmcelroy wrote: 96 Points
Lovely mature Bordeaux. Very elegant in style. Double decanted 1.5 hours before dinner and continued to develop over next 3 hours. A real treat.
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12/11/2013 - Paul D wrote:
Cornucopia - Christmas Wimps (La Trompette, Chiswick): Youthful, pure cedary blackcurrant fruit, note of vanilla. Classy and composed on the palate, with very refined tannins, more cedar and blackcurrant but no huge complexity or interest, at least at this stage. ***1/2.
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10/1/2013 - Grinner Likes this wine: 95 Points
Very similar to 2 years ago and again opened on our anniversary- 10/1/89. Garnet with minimal brick at the edge. It actually improved over the hour it was open. Soft sexy texture on the palate, it has notes of cassis, blackberry, pencil, spicebox, tobacco, and coffee. Lingers very nicely. It would be pretty easy to overpower this with intense food -- keep it simple! And don't wait too long.
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9/8/2013 - TOTOM wrote: 94 Points
12 sec finish
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8/5/2013 - William Kelley wrote: 90 Points
I have consumed four bottles of the 1989 Château Mouton-Rothschild in the last twelve months, and all of them have been to varying degrees disappointing. At this tasting, while it was certainly a more enjoyable wine than the 1989 Lafite, and the best bottle I have yet encountered, with boisterous aromas of blackcurrant and plum sauce, it lacked the flavor authority, length and complexity of a great vintage of Mouton. Mouton did not introduce a second wine until 1993, so perhaps lack of selection explains it?
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8/1/2013 - KVM wrote: 94 Points
Top of shoulder. Cork is wet. Dark red, mahogany edge. Dark fruit, tea, leather, cassis, flowers. Red fruit, green olives, pencil shavings. Well concentrated and steely. Light to medium body and a little dry. Long finish! In a beautiful spot but no need to hurry.
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5/31/2013 - GlöckliWein Likes this wine: 96 Points
Beautiful !°°°
This Wine of Chateau MOUTON Rothschild 1989
from the "Year of Mauerfall" breaking down the Wall of east and West Germany ... by the way ;-)
is in it´s own way a surprise !
at the BEGINNING:
colour: not very thick but ruby couloured and simple "old School Wine"
nose: not very obsessiv like the
taste: from the beginning very noble, simple but noble !
taste round, like the very aromatic apple peal , sitting in a meadow of ripe apple trees ... and the smell of falling down ripe apples...
After 1 hour :
the SMELL is getting more intensive ! addings of:
tabacco, sandle wood, under brush in the woods, EARTHY and
some very round spices of a basket of lush fruits - very sexy and ELLEGANT ! ° ° °
You won´t get enought !
After half a day -... and so good Jazzy VINYL Music Duke Ellington / Count Basie / or even Haitink 10 Mahler´s Symphonies ..
This Wine should never stopp to pour out of this wonderful bottle !
96 Points of 100 Points tastable !
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4/19/2013 - Wine_lvr Likes this wine: 95 Points
Bordeaux 1989 Horizontal Tasting (Zurich): Clear intensive red. Nose of Black Tea, Coffee and herbs with hints of dark berries and leather. The wine has nice notes of graphite and a wonderful fruit (blue berries, plum) and chocolate. All is very elegant and balanced. No hurry to drink this beauty. Drink - 2030.
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4/19/2013 - WineCellarTV Likes this wine: 94 Points
Deep dark-red to purple. Lighter edges, but still dense and vital!
Dark Black and Blue Berries. Mostly Cabernet driven Aromas of Black Currants and some Black Cherry.
Eukalypt, some Sweetness and present secondary characteristics as Leather, Tabacco, Dark Chocolate and Moss.
Intense Nose! Exciting and complex!
Flavors of Black Currants with some bitter sweetness. Caramel, some Ginger and Leather.
Finishes medium-long with vibrant acidity, round tannins and a play of Herbs and Spices.
Feels slightly thin in the mouth, but very balanced and integrated, with a lot of power on the back palate!
The wine was best after 4+ hours in the decanter.
A solid Mouton from an average vintage or, in other words, a fantastic wine!
Complex and Cabernet Sauvignon- focused with an immense nose, but with very elegant flavors.
Good to drink now or to cellar for 5 to 10 (?) more years, as it still has a solid backbone of acidity and tannins.
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3/23/2013 - pjaines Likes this wine:
Stunning quality. This is sitting in a perfect place right now....balanced, elegant, complex, sexy. Wave upon wave of mint, dry soil, cherries, dark fruit. Super fine tannins and cut through with a fresh finish. Stunning.
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12/3/2012 - mwanasheria wrote: 93 Points
Initially strange cellar notes, but these went away quickly. Sweet malt, cassis, silky tannins, very elegant.
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11/23/2012 - psmith wrote: 92 Points
Friday after Thanksgiving II (Palm Beach Gardens, FL): Elegant. Graceful, with great balance. Still youthful, with dark fruits and classic styling. Needs time.
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11/2/2012 - Lord Rayas wrote: 95 Points
David's MNSC (Megan's Kitchen): big, impressive nose of tobacco and leather. almost exotic. excellent.
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9/28/2012 - GEDC wrote: 95 Points
Mouton Vertical for my 35th B-day. 78-84-85-88-89. Opened 2.5 hours before serving. Paired with Risotto with Tartufo nero Pregiato. Deadly combination definitely a more modern cab based mouton compared to the 78. Nice dark shinny color. Lovely nose goes down so smooth seems like time slows down a bit when sampling this fine juice.
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7/25/2012 - jlgnml wrote: 94 Points
Mouton Vertical Tasting & Dinner (JW Marriott Chicago Il): Good color, nice fruit, took a very long time to open in the glass.
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6/10/2012 - jklaw7 wrote: 94 Points
Drank at our wine/food party last night. Brought over by a friend. Perfect cork. Decanted for 2 hours before serving. Really heavenly bouquet, awesome floral/fruit scents; then a very nice pure fruit/cassis on the tongue. Perhaps the wine of the evening along with '70 Forts de Latour.
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6/8/2012 - Blair Curtis wrote: 90 Points
Like the 1988 Mouton alongside it, this had a funky nose that I could not fully enjoy. But again the palate came through to salvage the wine...in fact this one has quite a lovely palate presence. Fairly good fruit with some hints of Chinese plum sauce. The wine is good, but not great.
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6/1/2012 - -E- wrote: 94 Points
Bordeaux Søskenparsmaking (Moss, Norway): Dyp rød med lett bruning i kanten. Flott, innsmigrende, eksotisk nese av plommer og syrefriske bær. Frisk, og saftig frukt med en elegant letthet og en flott syrestruktur. Lette tørre tanniner i avslutningen. Klassisk.
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6/1/2012 - LWI wrote: 92 Points
Bordeaux Siblings (Moss, Norway): Classic, tobacco and underbrush, mature fruit. Very lovely, but a bit short, slightly astringent.
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5/28/2012 - godx wrote: 92 Points
La Commanderie de Bordeaux à Vancouver - 1988, 1989, 1990 Red Bordeaux (CinCin Restaurant): Medium red colour. There was a good dose of sulfur at first on the nose here but that eventually blew off and left a nice sweet and sour funk that I enjoyed while others at the table didn’t. There were also aromas of earth, spice and red fruits. On the palate this had classic flavours of plum, cassis and spice with firm tannins and lots of acidity. This well stored bottle was drinking quite youthfully and I think it needs another 5 years at least before all its potential is revealed. Excellent. 92+
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5/4/2012 - cab blends wrote: 90 Points
AHA - A dinner with Mouton (Washington DC - Mellon Auditorium): A little acidic for me - especially by comparison with the 86 and 03. Maybe its current state but I don't know that it has the ability to smooth out. Time will tell and a retaste in 5 years time will be interesting.
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3/17/2012 - phansen wrote: 95 Points
Wow. This is truly amazing.. Mature but will peak for 2-4 years to come.. An outstandig glass of Mouton.. 2 left in my cellar
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2/24/2012 - avp wrote:
Tart red berries and red apple with sour cherry character and peach - as well as liquorice, pencil shavings, lilacs, smoke and leather.
Fullbodied and rather refreshing palate with mid-grippy tannins. Strawberries, currants and cranberries. Graphite, florality, bitter herbs, mustard seeds, liquorice, gunpowder and gravel. Long.
Not as serious as it intends to be.
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2/3/2012 - Lord Rayas wrote: 92 Points
Rich Chun dinner with Arthur, Desmond, D, PN, Perran and wives (The Principal): beautiful mature nose. classic pauillac. elegant palate but lacking the usual mouton power and finesse, almost lightweight.
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1/9/2012 - BMcD77 Likes this wine: 91 Points
Purchased in Nice, when opened the cork was wet to the top so was a little nervous considering I paid 400 Euro. Opened and left for 2 hours than decantered for 45 minutes. Was a garnet colour with a classic savory nose.However seemed to lack the full fruit I was expecting as still seemed to have high acid without any richness or enough fruit flavour. This wine is a lady, elegant and refined but lacked the punch to knock me out.
For a Chateau Mouton Rothschild , I was expecting better , so will keep searching for the Holy Grail.
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12/30/2011 - Jossik wrote: 96 Points
In forma davvero strepitosa, al naso inizialmente caffè e ribes scuro, poi frutta rossa polposa, tabacco dolce, ricco, pieno. Il tannino dolce e succoso, la bocca impressionante per ampiezza, molto lunga. Sembra quasi Haut Brion più che mouton.
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12/6/2011 - BradKNYC wrote:
TN: End of year dinner; "Bring something good." (Beacon Restaurant): This was largely considered a dog for the vintage on release and it's never particularly impressed me the four or five times I've had it over the years and tonight it's showing as usual. It's rustic, high acid and chunky in style with an extracted feel to it, but without any richness or enough fruit to fully back it up. Red cherry and red currants on the palate with a touch of herb and earth as well as mint and coffee from the oak that still needs to integrate further. It's showing a bit better than the Ausone, but like the Ausone, given the vintage, Château and price, one expects a lot more. B+/A-.
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10/11/2011 - St Paul wrote: 96 Points
What an elegant and lovely Mouton! Tobacco, walnut, chocolate, roasted coffee, typical fruit of cassis, exotic spices. Even a bit of blueberry in the mouth. Ginger. Absolutely gorgeous chewy tannins. Not a power house but so elegant and Mouton like. A top wine!
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10/10/2011 - wallstreet wrote: 96 Points
a stunningly youthful wine with plenty of life ahead. Give it some decent air and it will open up and reward greatly. Typical Mouton, what can I say. Not quite the 82, but still very very good.
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10/2/2011 - Grinner wrote: 94 Points
Purchased on release ($63!), le Cache storage, low neck fill, cork wet near to the top, and decanted just before serving. The color was a surprisingly intact garnet to the rim. It has a classic nose: earth, pencil shavings, some tobacco, spice, and coffee. On the palate the tannins are resolved, the fruit and earthy flavors compete for attention and then linger nicely. Needed more flesh/fruit/depth to score higher. Still it was great to have a wine from our wedding year on our anniversary.
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9/10/2011 - aof wrote: 92 Points
1989 Bordeaux First Growth and Super Second Tasting.: Typical Pauillac; lead-pencil, flinty nose, rather vibrantly structured if pedestrian. Not a first growth effort, nonetheless, good claret.
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7/19/2011 - Rani Likes this wine: 95 Points
What a classic. Liquid blueberry jam with lamb fat drippings. Silky mouth feel, powdery tannins, long.
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6/30/2011 - Papies wrote: 93 Points
Bordeaux Vertizontal (88,89,90 - Palmer/Leoville Barton/Cos/Mouton) (Roberson Wine, South Ken, London): Just liek the 88 (and the 90) the nose dominates the quality if this wine. Such a beautifull nose. Good amount of fruit and life but a bit short for a 1st growth wine. Nice complexity but woudl have loved some more depth. 93 ( wouldnt pay the price for it though..)
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6/11/2011 - danielk168 wrote: 93 Points
Cork broke during extraction causing tense moments, but bottle turns out OK. Surprisingly young and vibrant, lots of red fruit and very solky tannins, normally I prefer wine fuller body and minerals but this was rather pleasing in a way. Decanted in bottle for an hour before poring, and drank over 2 hours, sould have paced slower as it was still developing when we drank the last drop. It was the best bottle out of 4 opened that night, two 96 Angelus, and 95 lafite .
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5/25/2011 - peternelson wrote: 92 Points
Perfumey, heady aromas; great structure, nice full mouth with blackberry and a tiny spiciness. This was still young, and holding up very well. 77% CS
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5/16/2011 - DSaeedi wrote: 96 Points
Decanted 1 1/2 hours. Nose holds currant, dark cherry and deep incense and perfume. Violet. Toastiness. Some cedar. Exotic spices. Fennel. Aromas continually fire out of the glass. Such a complex, exotic nose. Finish lasts for over a minute. Gorgeous, haunting wine of incredible complexity.
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5/7/2011 - ThatReeder wrote: 94 Points
Fantastic. Nuanced and elegant. A long lingering finish. One of those wines that measure the rest against.
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3/27/2011 - DemeesterWim wrote: 94 Points
Great Class ! 1989 was a warm year but nothing cooked in this bottle. Refined tannins , good acidity and a luscious body. Lovely ! This wine will easily hold another 10 years but great right now !
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2/18/2011 - mrkb wrote: 95 Points
Magnifique.
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12/24/2010 - cortoncharlie wrote: 93 Points
Nice and very paulliac. Not the greatest mouton but still a very solid drink.
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11/23/2010 - vinopaedics wrote: 95 Points
Cork was compromised but not the wine!
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10/30/2010 - barcud wrote: 95 Points
Deep portlike, hint of age, bright, nose of classic syrah!!! with complexity and layers of spice and organic trends, some forest floor. Superb entrance, all in balance spice and fruit, epic, ? Hermitage, vey long. Wine of the year for me
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10/17/2010 - Matt Scott wrote: 98 Points
Decanted for two hours. See previous notes. Top shoulder fill with seepage, I actually saw a drip and decided to pop open. Down to just one bottle, from a different provenance. After two days of Syrahs from Washington and California (which I love!), this statuesque beauty was a coming home of sorts. The mid-palate is very evident. I am noticing the floral quality even more, while the cassis seems somewhat muted. Eventhough the bottle was not in the finest of conditions, there was no lack-ability. Nothing vacuous at all and a lot of strength left. I still feel like this could use another year or two, with the wine just coming out of it's shell. I was saddened and happy to open her. This was a time where I had to remind myself that every wine is made to consume at some point. Drink 2012 -.
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9/23/2010 - Burgundy Al wrote:
Magnum Madness (New York, NY): Magnum. Rich and robust dark, ripe fruit. Wonderful fresh aromas with great fruit and spice. Long life ahead, 94-95 point potential for me.
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8/15/2010 - KeyMaster Likes this wine: 94 Points
Superbe vin. Impressionant, prêt mais peut encore vieillir.
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7/1/2010 - Jeff Leve wrote: 92 Points
Tobacco, earth, spice, cassis, plums and forest aromatics started off the wine. Some tannins remain to be resolved in this traditionally made wine. The wine ends with a juicy mouthful of cassis, spice and blackberry. fruit.
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5/17/2010 - Mrbuzz Likes this wine: 96 Points
Blind '89's for a Monday.... (My house): Dark garnet, slight brick rim color. WHAT A NOSE!!! No funk, like the '89 Clerc Milon, deep deep spice box, dusty cedar, leather, smoked underbrush stems, dried berries, some coffee later on. Beautiful florals and seductive spices on the nose, that kept getting better and better, even as the bottle was last drained! Silky smooth in the mouth, yet still powerful....very complexed with the same flavors as the nose, as well as some mint, dried herbs....well balanced wine, still with room to grow. I knew this had to be the Mouton.....killer wine! My #1.
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4/12/2010 - Matt Scott wrote: 98 Points
(Had this the day after the '82 Mouton as a comparative and just because)
Base neck level and no seepage. Decanted for three hours with a triple. Lovely dark garnet in colour with a chrystal rim. What a seductive and mesmerizing nose! Leather, cassis, fresh cut cedar, red cherries, tea, lily’s, and sweet tobacco. The leather, cherries and tobacco are quite evident on the finish - with a little spice. What a finish! This went on for about two minutes. The tannins are soft and plump. They are not stringent at all and really show the strength of this enticing Pauillac. Incredible layers that that are judicious and not too forceful. This is my second '89 Mouton and I am blown away. Not up to the '86 (which I rate at a perfect 100), however, a tad better than the '82 (in my humble opinion and I prefer the '89 vintage - overall). Having this the day after the '82 really shows how diverse and similar this awe-inspiring terroir can be. This is my second favorite of the '89 First-Growths (Haut-Brion 100 pts, Latour 96 pts, Lafite and Margaux 95 pts ea.) I truly do not understand the split reaction to this wine. There's a long life ahead and it could still use a couple more years. Only two more left in my collection. Drink 2012 -.
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3/17/2010 - wir wrote: 92 Points
Opened 2h in advance.
First nose was shy and seducive, with cherry and licorice but after the 2nd serving typical Cabernet mokka and barnyard came out. In mouth beautifull with good power in the palate. Slight bitterness at the end.
Best red of the evening. 92+
Should get a short decant before drinking.
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2/13/2010 - stadler wrote: 90 Points
Encore jeune, surprenant d'ailleurs après le Figeac 88 ! On se fait malgré tout une idée de ce vin avant de le boire, je voulais être renversé mais il ne m'a pas convaincu autant que le Figeac malgré son grand potentiel.
Une belle structure pour un grand millésime à Pauillac.
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2/8/2010 - Roentgen Ray wrote: 93 Points
Better than the previous bottle I had tasted. Meaty dark fruit and some minerality. Firm tannins and good balance.
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1/29/2010 - WildeMeeuw wrote: 92 Points
1989 Château Mouton Rothschild (Frankrijk, Bordeaux, Médoc, Pauillac) Kleur: Robijnrood, oranjebruine rand Aroma / bouquet: Stallerig, gronderig, boers / rijp, Smaak / Afdronk: Beetje 'stoffige', krachtige aanzet, veel structuur, geweldig mooie tannines, aantrekkelijk bittertje, duidelijk de meest jonge en dus nog krachtige wijn. Algemeen / potentieel: 50 + Kleur: 5 + Aroma / bouquet: 11 + Smaak / Afdronk: 18 + Algemeen / potentieel: 8 = 92/100
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12/31/2009 - MatthewF wrote: flawed
New Year's Eve 2009 (Chicago IL): Unfortunately mildly corked. Mature aromas of red currant and plum with cigar box notes still come through. Medium bodied and fully ready to drink.
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12/31/2009 - psmith wrote: flawed
New Years 2009 (Chicago, IL): Dark fruits and tobacco, medium body and resolving, but some cork taint clearly evident.
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11/16/2009 - Peech wrote:
I had little expectations for the wine, and therefore was pleasantly surprised. This was a classic Pauillac, with cigar smoke, fruit, a hint of medicine, mint, lead pencil and lots of coffee. Finish was acidic with round tannins.
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9/11/2009 - futronic wrote: 97 Points
Wino Guys Weekend (WGW) #3; 9/11/2009-9/12/2009: Medium-ruby colour. Classic Medoc aromas of cedar, pencil lead, cigar box, and leather joined by notes of wet leaves, potpourri, and spice. Medium-full bodied, delicious, silky in texture with notes of wet leaves, cigar, and cedar. Long finish, ~40-45s, with delicate fruit, leather, sandalwood, and cigar box. Outstanding and a real treat to enjoy. This wine can go for many, many more years but is drinking well now.
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9/11/2009 - mimik wrote: 97 Points
Wine Guy Weekend Chez Doktas Take 3; 9/11/2009-9/13/2009 (Collingwood, Ontario): Typical claret on the nose. Pencil shavings, cassis, toast, and tobacco. More cassis and tobacco on the pure palate. Fits well together. Seductive without being flashy. Pure and well-defined. Long fruit finish.
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9/6/2009 - VoteferPedro wrote: 92 Points
Single decanted 90 minutes prior service. The cork was saturated and gave an acacia smell like a young cali cab. Brick hue but clear rim and aromatics fooled blind tasters as to its age. Classic pauillac ose of pencil lead, cedar and some yeasty bread-notes with a high note of camphor. It has a rich palate with smooth tannins that linger. It was a dark fruit flavor that coalesced to a bright cherry by the last of the glass.
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7/25/2009 - tbabes wrote: 96 Points
The fill was top shoulder; opened (but not decanted) about 1 hour prior to service. An exotic bouquet of lavender, cedary dark fruits, truffle, campfire and fennel. Medium bodied, with beautiful concentration of fruit -- but very light on her feet -- with a velvety mid-palate, lush texture, and well delineated finish. Did not improve (daresay it even faded a bit) with extended airing in the glass, but it is drinking perfectly at present. What a treat! Drank side by side with the '88 Mouton, which is a younger wine in just about every respect.
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7/23/2009 - loverboy wrote: 91 Points
From different storage from my last bottle. Opaque red, by the color it's nowhere near a 20 years old wine. strong nose of smoky tobacco, plum, black fruits. Very very long finish
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7/20/2009 - Serge Birbrair wrote:
Lots of pedigree, fully developed, and as ready as one can be. No disappointments here, aristocracy in the glass. Excellent compliment to veal chop grilled on wood coal BBQ with cast iron grill.
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6/17/2009 - Jeff Leve wrote: 91 Points
Coffee, licorice, cedar, cassis, tar, and molasses fill your nose with pleasure. This full bodied wine has nice weight and density as well as good texture. But the black fruit filled finish falls short, especially for a First Growth in a strong vintage. This wine will continue drinking well for at least another decade.
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6/3/2009 - P.Robert wrote: 93 Points
Having had this Sunday night, I thought it would be a killer way to start and set the tone for the rest of the evening. This was a better bottle than Sunday. The nose was funky at first, I believe the term was dog crap and coffee!!! Little VA funkiness but blew off revealing that coffee mocha and vibrant fruits, blackberry and vanilla with some dark tea notes. Well structured, elegant, has the bones to go much further. Would rate this low 90's
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4/30/2009 - goofy Yno wrote: 92 Points
mushroom, earth nose cherry mouth with good balance.
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4/30/2009 - jivey wrote: 92 Points
Offline Backstreet - Huge earth, rasberry, cherry, more structured nose not as pretty on the finish.
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4/30/2009 - jeff nowak wrote: 93 Points
dave's bordeaux blowout (backstreet wine salon): huge step up from the 88. this wine has deep concentration and beautiful fruit. drink or hold.
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4/30/2009 - Alex G. wrote:
Good grip and finish, still tannic with much life ahead of it. Far superior to the '88
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4/30/2009 - ScottS wrote: 93 Points
Backstreet Bordeaux Tasting (Backstreet Wine Salon - PHX, AZ): medium to full bodied wine with flavors of cherry, chocolate and spice box. nice texture and wonderful balance with silky smooth tannins on the finish.
50+5+14+17+7=93
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4/30/2009 - mattiasjansson wrote: 94 Points
Backstreet - Bordeaux (Backstreet Wine Salon, Phoenix, AZ): Not as strong as last time, but still very good.
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4/21/2009 - gsquireh wrote: 92 Points
Nose of lovely blackberries and cedar. Medium-bodied beautiful,luscious and showing all the regality of a mature Mouton.
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3/31/2009 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 95 Points
Blind Night (Apiary): Interesting. When this was revealed it made perfect sense. Everything here seemed in such perfect proportion that you knew it didn't come from a second-tier vintage, but the flavors were more advanced than the structure suggested it should be. So it turns out to be a Mouton that's often called out as an underachiever. Maybe it won't be a 50-year-wine but as it sat in the glass it turned into what many Moutons are not - first-growth complexity. Last sip was packed with cigar smoke and graphite and sunk into the palate with a truly sophisticated grace.
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3/20/2009 - LWI wrote: 90 Points
Mouton Rothschild versus other first growths and second growths (Oslo): Slight development. I did find it a tad short, some oak. Thought it was GL. 90p. Group average: 1.9
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3/20/2009 - Barbalax wrote: 89 Points
Tasted blind together with Latour, Pichon Baron and Poyferré. The majority of the tasters placed this last. Some reductive aromas that took a long time to blow off otherwise a nice cherries and some oak. Very mature, not very complex. Could this have been an off bottle? Hard to tell - but this wine doesn't have a very high market price.
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3/5/2009 - loverboy wrote: 92 Points
Youthful dark red color. Immediate nose of vanilla, caramel, creme de cassis with noticeable alcohol. Big wine with full-bodied texture but yet elegant in a Mouton way. I always found Mouton to be very deliciously made with style. After a couple of hours, the Merlot dominated with the coffee crushed , espresso like and it stayed that way for the rest of the bottle. To me this is a very nice bottle of Mouton which I've enjoyed a lot. Too bad we took to much time opening the 1979 Latour which left us too little time for the wines.
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3/3/2009 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 92 Points
A private tasting (Rotterdam): Very charming and distinctive, not a big Mouton but an elegant and fine-boned wine.
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2/14/2009 - tbabes wrote: 98 Points
I had high expectations for this wine, but it was even better than I could have hoped! The fill was into the neck; pulled the cork (but did not decant) about 2 hours before dinner. A pretty ruby-red color, turning towards garnet at the rim. A glorious bouquet of ripe red and black fruits, fennel, leather lilly and spice. Just as impressive in the mouth, with good structure, a velvety mid-palate (off the charts!) but with good structure and a very focused finish. This bottle was drinking perfectly, but will surely last for many years to come.
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1/3/2009 - rpbaum wrote: 85 Points
This year (1989) marks a very important event for Germany - the reunification in 1989, which is also the topic of the label (made by Georg Baselitz) " drüben sein jetzt hier".
The wine has a magnificent bouquet of great depth and richness; rich red to the rim without any signs of aging, however, the wine itself was somewhat disappointing: lovely integrated attack but it lacked the complexity and length of a first growth - it may be over its best time and I think it will not anymore improve, but decline.
Decanted 6 hours.
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12/21/2008 - Roentgen Ray wrote: 90 Points
Very earthy nose, with time this dissipated and allowed a floral note to emerge. There was some fruit notes buried deeply in this wine but lacked complexity. Structured and a little square. Solid above average wine. Drink or hold.
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12/20/2008 - jivey wrote: 98 Points
WOW! Spectacular nose, just took me to another place! Leather, cedar, red fruits, graphite, perfect balance, nice tannins and structure just left me speechless. There was some much nuances and complexity on the finish I had a hard time putting my glass down.
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12/20/2008 - goofy Yno wrote: 94 Points
cedar early replaced with red fruit with time, chocolate, good complexity, long finish.
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12/20/2008 - kstoddard wrote: 92 Points
Holiday Party (Jeff): Ruby color. Perfumed raspberry nose. Tastes of blackberry, blackcurrant, bell pepper and earth. Medium to full-bodied. Good balance and acidity. Nicely integrated oak and tannins. Good complexity with a very elegant finish.
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12/20/2008 - jeff nowak wrote: 95 Points
decanted about 4 hours. proving once again that there are no great wines, just great bottles, i thoroughly enjoyed this. seemingly fully mature, with solid notes of leather, strong black tea, tobacco. also, there was a good story behind the history of the bottle acquisition.
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12/10/2008 - EHF wrote: 95 Points
Had with dinner at Cottonwood in Truckee, CA. Decanted about an hour head of time. This was a fantastic bottle of wine start to finish. Super deep red color. Not hint of age. A wonderful nose with cranberry and rasberry. Super smooth tannins. Totally delightful.
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12/6/2008 - moutondoc wrote: 94 Points
lot's of life left in this bordeaux, fruit has not really dropped too much, enjoyed thoroughly
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10/24/2008 - hargy wrote: 90 Points
rich red to the rim without any signs of aging - magnificent bouquet of great depth and richness - the wine itself was a little disappointing: lovely integrated attack but it seemed to lack the complexity and length of a first growth - it may well improve with time - leave
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10/6/2008 - IlonaN wrote: 96 Points
I had a chance to enjoy a glass of this great wine over the weekend. Impeccable balance, with a nose so evocative I could hardly stop smelling it. Coffee, cassis, fall leaves, menthol, warm leather, touch of graphite, the list goes on and on. Dry and full on the palate with silky texture and a long, caressing finish. The best Bordeaux I have ever tasted.
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9/10/2008 - AllRed wrote: 96 Points
Flickinger Wines customer Appreciation Tasting (The Racquet Club, Chicago): Deep garnet color. Opens with a great earthy quality, Otis referred to it as peat...but there's also plenty of fruit underneath, along with pencil lead and floral tones. This is a muscular wine, full bodied and incredibly well-balanced, yet there are sill some tannins and oak to integrate. Deep, lush red fruit flavors, along with spice and oak. The finish lasts well over a minute. Still on the young side at the moment, will be absolutely stunning at its peak. 96+.
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8/22/2008 - sonakul_t wrote: flawed
corked
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8/3/2008 - AN wrote: 93 Points
The problem with a wine of this magnitude is that you expect too much of it based on its reputation and cult status. We tasted it blind along Leoville Barton 1989 and Tronquoy Lalande 1989, three wines of different class and prices. Probably not surprising, that Mouton shined through and most of the tasters guessed it right - it stood out with a very intense nose of cofee, mocha as well as red fruits. Later it showed some more vanilla on the nose. The palate was very fresh and full of fruit for this age of wine, however, at a later stage during the dinner I thought that the oak flavours started to dominate the others. Went beautifully with lamb stewed in red wine (basic NZ pinot noir by the way:). It is a very complex wine indeed. However, if you have to choose for lamb - Tronquoy Lalande 1989 was not bad at all, although much more mature and past its best - but for a fraction of the price.
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5/31/2008 - Bromie wrote: 91 Points
Drank with wine-loving friends in Geneva with dinner. Decanted for an hour beforehand. Still deep in colour, with a cigar-box and dark fruits bouquet. Enjoyable if not spectacular mouthful with a long dry finish. Whilst I love this, it's still not bowling me over like I hoped a first growth would. Suspect a good bottle will be fine for a few years yet.
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4/30/2008 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 93 Points
Wonderful, rich Mouton nose, warm, deep and exotic, blackberry, tobacco, cedar, well-integrated oak, gravel, meat, harmonious; lovely ripe and juicy sweetness; relatively light weight, slightly edgy tannins; excellent finish, long and fragrant. Fully evolved, time in hand. Now - 2020.
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3/30/2008 - slippytoad wrote: 95 Points
Well I finally opened my oldest and most expensive bottle for no real occasion, just to drink! Decanted for an hour and a half. Great Pauillac nose, backwards fruit on the palate, lots of cedar and oak and dark fruit throughout, incredibly long finish. Have to say I was a tiny bit disappointed, it wasn't as expressive as the last time I tried this. Crazy price for what you get, but ah, and experience you don't forget.
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3/22/2008 - Silverswimmer wrote: 90 Points
Looked great in the glass. Bright,deep red with lots of legs
Most complex and elegant nose-spice and blackcurrants.Smooth entry with fruit and balanced tannins.
Very nice mouthful but a little short with tannin predominating.Group opinion is that we are not sure
it is quite ready yet-but what a magnificent nose!
[Geoff's birthday lunch[byow]-The Forest Dorridge]
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2/24/2008 - burgbob wrote: 95 Points
Balanced and complete wine. Medium bodied and not as rich as the 1982 Gruaud Larose we had with it, but all the elements are in harmony. Great elegance and length. The balance is such that it will easily live another ten years.
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2/1/2008 - mtennenbaum wrote:
1-08 tasted with 1981 Caymus Grace and 1980 Dunn Howell. The Mouton was politically correct with all the elements there, and so well behaved it was overshadowed by the 2 California wines. It was quite good, but not that distinctive for a first growth from a reputedly stellar vintage. Good to drink now a years to come.
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1/14/2008 - ErinByrne wrote: 90 Points
Enjoyed this with Kevin to celebrate successfully delivering the Closing the Gap program. Definitely ready to be consumed, and already getting a little light around the edges while in the glass. Medium bodied, multi-layered, flavors of chocolate and red fruit. I only had one bottle, but if I had more I'd be drinking it now.
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12/12/2007 - tbabes wrote: 94 Points
Tasted at a Commanderie de Bordeaux dinner, Lacroix at the Rittenhouse, Dec 2007. This was one of the "bin ends" that was available during the reception. Sound appearance, with a dark purplish ruby-red core, with just a hint of amber at the edges. Pretty and extroverted bouquet, offering up notes of violet, ripe dark fruits, and spice. Medium-bodied on the palate, with good structure and a crisp finish. Not as lush as the '85 Mouton. This wine would have been much better if paired with food, but still a treat to taste and experience.
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10/27/2007 - noppakit s. wrote: 92 Points
My first time testing of 1989.
This is beautiful Mouton. Wonderful scents of lead pencil, cassis, mild wood and original Mouton perfume. Very elegance in the beginning and getting more fruits..good acid, well-round, bigger body..lovely and long finished.
Impress !!
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10/5/2007 - reichken wrote: 91 Points
Lunch at Chez Bruce (Chez Bruce, London): Lunch with D Wainwright @ Chez Bruce
3rd of89 Claret flight. dark purple color with a lightening around the edges. spicy blackberries on the nose, some grassy veg smell.most developed of the three clarets. med weight, med finish, nice drink,has many years left on it
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5/21/2007 - TampaDan wrote: 94 Points
Had before the Roger Waters concert at West Palm Wines in Tampa with Jim, Kate, Mark and of course Amanda. I'm not sure why I didn't think this wine was going to be great (maybe the lukewarm Parker reviews?), but it certainly held its own against some ferocious competition, a 1990 Gaja Sori Tildin Barbaresco that was showing spectacularly that night. Really drinkable now, but should certainly still improve if one is fortunate enough to have the patience.
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5/19/2007 - TampaDan wrote: 95 Points
Absolutely wonderful bottle, consumed along with a 1990 Gaja Sori Tildin and a 1995 Griotte-Chambertin from Rene Leclerc, prior to attending the Roger Waters concert in Tampa. Lots of that great Bordeaux earthiness, along with a healthy dose of that ripe, plummy, almost California-like fruit that is so characteristic of Mouton. The most voloptuous and hedonistic of First Growths comes through again. Bravo!
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5/18/2007 - dbkitc wrote: 90 Points
(at The Modern – NYC) Medium / deep garnet. Gorgeous nose of plum, tobacco and cinnamon. Ripe and inviting. Merely OK on the palate – good, typical cassis flavors with some mineral. Not great depth or finish. Not up to expectations. (90)
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2/1/2007 - winefool wrote: 93 Points
HDH Comparative Bordeaux Tasting 1989 & 1990 (Casino Club): Full red color. Huge aroma of coffee black fruit and graphite. Big black pencil lead and black fruit with a ton of structure and a long finish. May be great in the future. 93-94 pts.
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1/28/2007 - bsherwin wrote:
Bordeaux on the Hudson (Peter Pratt's Inn): This wine certainly lacked the WOW factor of some of the others, but it was quite a pleasant and friendly wine. The nose was quite pretty with ample cassis mingled with graphite, cedar and a bit of toast. The nose is much more impressive that the mouth on this one though. On it's own it would have seemed more impressive, but in the company of some classic wines, it seemed a bit simple. It doesn't fall apart and the fruit is sweet and ripe and it has a nice balance to it. While broad it just is not very deep. Still, it had a long finish, is nicely made and is quite enjoyable.
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9/30/2006 - Burgundy Al wrote: 90 Points
HDH Pre-Auction Tasting Highlights (Chicago IL): Wine tasting. leathery character to start with fairly mature fruit. Fairly structured and acidic still today, dominating the primary and secondary character of the wine today. Moderate finish shows slightly more fruit, but is also slightly dried out.
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9/4/2006 - graemeg wrote:
NobleRottersSydney - First Growth Night (Guillaume at Bennelong): This wine’s bouquet still has some primary fruit notes to offer – there’s more than a dash of rich cassis aroma among the accompanying smoke and tobacco nose. Very rich indeed after the preceding Chevals [89 & 88]. The palate is big too; an arch of ripe flavour stretches in an even sweep from front to back. Here the development takes centre-stage, and the aromatic fruitiness subsides beneath the strong chalky tannins and muscular acidity. Wonderfully balanced, with a long even finish, this is a classy wine which drinks beautifully now, but will happily take more cellaring. Was the early runner for wine-of-the-night, and only lost a few supporters along the way.
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9/2/2006 - BradE wrote:
Out of magnum, which was purchased at auction in the early 90's. Decanted for an hour, then slowly drunk by four of us over a long dinner. This wine is pleasant, but certainly not awe inspiring. It really softened up quickly, with a very nice "mature claret" type of personality. The color was dark, the tannis were low, and the fruit was nice but reserved. Interestingly, I enjoyed its softness, and lower level of tannin, characteristics that seem at odds with most of the TN's I've read on this wine. All in all, a bottle in good shape, but a wine that is a solid 89/90. For shock and awe, we'll need to find something else this Labor Day weekend!
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5/28/2006 - staglin wrote: 95 Points
Early unpleasant nose. Blew off quickly. Beautiful structure and fruit. Classic wine. 2 bottles consumed. significant bottle variation noted.
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4/27/2006 - Rupert wrote:
Lots of small tastes of some very grand wines (Royal Academy, London): Tannic, but richly fruity, relatively straightforward [90]
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2/9/2006 - MRichman wrote:
Mouton Vertical at Hearth in NYC (Hearth Restaurant): Smooth, round and soft. Silky. Resolved with a long finish. My surprise of the night.
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1/15/2006 - 3daywinereview.com wrote: 95 Points
Wonderful wine with cassis, blueberries, lead pencil and earth. Medium to long finish and nice acidity. Should age well for a decade or more.
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1/15/2006 - Dave Dalluge wrote: 93 Points
Tasted side-by-side with the ’83 -- these were almost identical. If anything I thought the ’83 was a slightly darker color and had slightly more concentration. Both offered a big barnyard (in a positive sense) on the nose. Very Exciting.
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1/15/2006 - DianeR wrote:
This was a classic Mouton that showed cedar, cassis, and lead pencil. Riper and richer fruit than the 1983; medium body; long finish. The depth and minerality of this wine were just superb.
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1/15/2006 - Ben Andersen wrote:
Minneapolis Dinner and Tasting - Chateauneuf, Bordeaux, and Burgundy (mainly) (J.P.'s in Minneapolis): Same bottle as Siggy's TN... Tasted side by side with the '83 Mouton, the '89 showed deeper / denser / darker fruit and more tannin - clearly younger than the '83 - yet there were still a number of similarities between these two wines. Cedar, graphite and cassis / prune. This is a rather powerful but still generous, classically styled Bordeaux that will live and develop for many more years... Thanks, Diane!
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1/15/2006 - Siggy wrote: 96 Points
Tasting Group Dinner - Old World Wines (JP's American Bistro, Minneapolis): This was a classic Mouton that showed cedar, cassis, and lead pencil. Riper and richer fruit than the 1983; medium body; long finish. The depth and minerality of this wine were just superb. WOTF for me.
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12/25/2005 - Jay A wrote: 93 Points
Nice wine. Has elements of youth with its fruit and elements of maturity with a smooth mouthfeel. Definitely has some secondary nuances, but I was too busy at the party to note them.
Xmas dinner at our house with kobe-gyu.
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10/22/2005 - trankin wrote:
Wine Spectator Bordeaux First-Growth Tasting (New York Marriott Marquis): Rusty red, transparent. Wet soil, barnyard on the nose. Red cherries, tobacco, wet earth flavors. Beautiul texture, with silky, subtle tannins. Very nice.
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10/1/2005 - winefool wrote: 93 Points
Great rich black cherry, cedar, and briar. 94 pts. 5/05
Full coffee red. Full psicy (oaky?) red fruit. Full ripe tannic red current with telltale graphite notes. Not quite the same complexity. Nice acidity. 93 pts. NYWE 05 10/05
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7/24/2005 - futronic wrote: flawed
Dark garnet colour. Aromas of nail polish, mustard, currant, cigar/smoke; a bit musty. Medium-bodied, with cedar, red delicious apple. Austere. Short finish with red fruit. Fleshes out a little with more time, but ultimately, a disappointing bottle.
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4/30/2005 - burningstarIV wrote: 90 Points
Decanted for one hour. Nose of licorice, nutmeg, tar, cinnamon, tobacco. Medium bodied, with a mouth filling raspberry and spice finish.
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3/19/2005 - Eric wrote:
A 98 point dinner at Steve Cramer's (West Seattle, WA, USA): The nose shows a whiff of vanillin and then the lead pencil and leather. The palate shows a nice, medium weight claret that is fairly well resolved. This is certainly a nice wine, but given the producer and vintage it is disappointing. Certainly this is nothing like the 1986 or 1982.
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10/23/2004 - andrewstevenson.com wrote: 90 Points
Slightly animalistic refined nose. Quite meat and rich on the palate. But not really sufficiently together on finish. Soft tannins with lovely structure. Very Good Indeed.
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12/26/2003 - Joe Belmaati wrote: 93 Points
Dark reddish in the glass. Scents of forest floor, coffee, and roasted almonds. Nicely cream-like on the tongue, well structured and harmoniously integrated. The wine was medium bodied and there was a pleasant and tasty, vanilla-oak character. Good definition and balance on the medium long aftertaste. My guess was Lafite.
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7/13/2003 - futronic wrote: 95 Points
Garnet red. Aromas of pencil lead, barnyard, berries, and dark fruit. Medium-full bodied with peppery red fruit, and good structure. Delicious finish. Fabulous wine.
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7/13/2003 - Vino Me wrote: 94 Points
A nose of graphite, green pepper and some slight barnyard which may have blown off with more decanting. It did not follow through to the palate. Like drinking silk this was so smooth. Notes of black currant, berry and some meatiness. Well integrated and a long finish. Oh what it could be with a better nose. 94-95 points.
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2/20/2003 - MichaelB wrote: 94 Points
This was the best showing yet for this wine, which I have had many bottles. Wonderful nose of cedar, smokey oak, blackcurrents, classic Paulliac profile. Good complexity, reminds me of the 85 with more going on
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4/1/2000 - DRS-Inc wrote: 99 Points
WA:90-93. Awesome wine, and a classic bordeaux.
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2/11/2000 - La Cave d'Argent wrote: 90 Points
Tasted at vertical Mouton dinner at the Belgian Lion. Dark ruby with red rim (in contrast to Parker's 2/28/97 tasting). I completely disagree with Parker in the sense that this wine is not evolved on the nose. Perhaps it has gone to sleep since his 1997 tasting. The nose is closed ant the palate shows massive oak, currants, vanilla and earth flavors. Tannins are huge and the wine has a long, tannic finish. Needs time.
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12/11/1993 - bestdamncab Likes this wine: 90 Points
Hi-Time Tasting, 1990 Mondavi Reserve, 1990 Opus, 1989 and 1990 Chateau Mouton, lovely, rich tobacco nose with hints of leather and cedar, medium/big body, elegant, stylish in the mouth, nice, medium/long finish. 3 way tie for #1.
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6/10/1992 - La Cave d'Argent wrote: 92 Points
Tasted at blind horizontal 1989 Bordeaux tasting at Vintage Wines, Ltd. Deep ruby, red rim. Moderately intense oak, vanilla and currants on nose. Full body, big extract, yet elegant on palate. Massive but supple tannins, long finish. Personal and group ranking 3rd out of 8 top growths.
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