1929 Château Mouton Rothschild

Community Tasting Notes (12) Avg Score: 95.3 points

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  6/8/2018 - The Vines That Bind wrote: 95 Points

  World's Greatest, Hong Kong - Night II (Garden Suite, Peninsula Hotel): This nose is Burgundian with elegant red cherry fruit, damp earth, and a terrific array of spices. Sexy and racy. Very playful aromatics. Good example of what Mouton can be in its best iterations. The palate here is sweet and the red cherry fruit is at about peak maturity. Delicious.

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  12/16/2017 - DrZett Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Grand Chateau Mouton Rothschild Christmas Tasting (Hotel Hohenzollern, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler (Germany)): Amazing earthy nose - typical old vintage Mouton. Straight forward fruit and even some tannins left. Very enjoyable - if tasted blind i would have put this to the 1960s.

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  9/17/2017 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Very Mouton nose. Dark red fruit, light earth notes, black plum candy. Hints of cardamom and cinnamon. Very vibrant palate that continued to open over the course of two hours. Long finish with balanced dark red fruit, moist earth, and hints of spice. Beautiful bottle. 96-97.

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  4/16/2017 - fclarity wrote: 95 Points

  The best looking bottle from this batch had a mid to high shoulder fill and a tight cork. The wine displayed a red center and tawny, orange rims. The medium+ intensity nose offered up cherries, mocha, clove, balsamic, Provencal herbs and some VA. After 5 hours the VA was minimized and the nose was impressive.
  
  In the mouth, this wine had a soft, fine grained texture, light rounded tannin, and crisp acidity. While it was fading, one could certainly see its regal bearing. Amazingly, it was better after 5 hours in a decanter. It had very good, somewhat sneaky length. The great complexity of this wine pushed it up from 94 to 95.
  
  While this wine was somewhat past its best, pristine bottles or large formats might be something to behold!

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  3/11/2017 - fclarity wrote: 95 Points

  This was a pretty beat up looking bottle from an impeccable source. It had a mid shoulder fill but a very firm cork. The wine had a red center and very light orange rims. The medium+ intensity nose put forth tan spices, cherries, raspberries, and mineral soil. It was fantastically complex. As is often the case with these very old bottles, there was an absolute boatload of sediment.
  
  After 4 hours of air, this wine was light bodied with some richness, firm acidity and good length. It was fully resolved but its great minerality, complexity and balance where still enough to fascinate the taster.
  
  This vintage was bottled only 7 years after Baron Philippe took over the chateau when he was 20 years old! This bottle was living on borrowed time. I suspect they all are. Drink ASAP!

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