2016 Château Mouton Rothschild Aile D'Argent Blanc

Community Tasting Notes (12) Median Score: 92 points

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  10/23/2023 - stjl Does not like this wine: 79 Points

  Oxydated, some hint of tropical fruits, no length. Past its time.

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  10/8/2023 - Collector1855 wrote: 87 Points

  Very advanced, with nutty notes. Sauv Blanc aleays struggles to age once it has seen oxygen during the wine making process. Being ultra reductive with this grape is a much safer bet.

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  4/4/2023 - NickA Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Proposed as a wine that could stand up to a sweetbread with parmesan and truffle sauce, which it proved it was. This is almost a 50/50 Sauv/Sem blend, with some malolactic fermentation, and it bore even less resemblance to the stereotypical Sauvignon Blanc than most white Bordeaux, being soft and creamy with quince and a touch of honey. Pretty powerful through the midpalate but caressing on the finish. That said, although the wine was luxurious, it wasn't especially exciting.

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  8/19/2022 - VoteferPedro wrote:

  my first two bottles were somewhat horrid alcoholic overblown tropical bombs with absolutely no resemblence to a white bordeaux.
  
  I opened this for a friend whose palate is both discerning and familiar with white bordeaux to be a second opinion on this for me but my first taste was like "hello, what have we here?"
  Now it is still leaning heavily tropical as if it was overripe at harvest but now we have a laser acidity counterbalancing the fruit and the alcohol has receded. I am a fan of acidity in wine but the acidity in the end one , but the prior bottles were not quite drinkable for me and this shows some promise . There was an estimated from Neal Martin that this could go until 2038. Although I doubt that I do feel having waited an extra year may have given this some integration that it needed.

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  9/15/2021 - MarshallLi Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Pale gold,medium blossom,apple,lemon,pineapple,black/white pepper,ripe fruit,wed stones,biscuits,orange marmalade,dry,high acidity,low alcohol,medium(-) body,medium finish,very good wine,suitable for bottle ageing

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