Chateau Mouton Rothschild Pauillac 2023 En Primeur 6 Btl. Case
Country: France Region: Bordeaux
Varietal: 93% Cabernet Sauvignon 7% Merlot
Vintage: 2023 Colour: Red Style: Dry
Producer: Chateau Lynch Moussas
ABV: 13.5%
Description:
Mouton Rothschild is banking on a blend that puts it alongside 2010 and perhaps in the spirit of 1986. This is a wine of great élan and stunning elegance that will need a long repose. An ethereal first growth for the ages.
In 2023, Mouton Rothschild’s Grand Vin has the second-highest percentage of Cabernet Sauvignon after the 2010 (which had 94%). It’s precise and pinpoint with a brooding depth to the fruit, cut by a herbal line that brings additional freshness. There’s an impressive, creamy mouth-feel, with wave upon wave of crunchy fruit. The tannins give a velvet grip, framing the powerful fruit. It’s long, intense – a serious Mouton that should develop beautifully in the cellar. Aged in 100% new oak, 13.3% and 3.79pH. Blend: 93% Cabernet Sauvignon, 7% Merlot.
Tasting Notes:
" This is the most structured Mouton since the great 2016, with tannins that start slowly and then take off. It’s muscular and toned. It’s full-bodied but doesn’t come across too heavy. It builds up in intensity and goes on and on and on. It just keeps expanding. I took a double take here. 93% cabernet sauvignon and 7% merlot."
98 - 99 Points
James Suckling
" High Cabernet, and the grape is dominant not just in blend but character, totally delicious, with tension, flesh, and confidence, building layers of black fruits, graphite, cocoa bean, espresso, pomegranate and smoked earth throughout the palate. When Cabernet works at Mouton, it is hard to beat, and it's on full display in 2023. One of my clear wines of the vintage. Of any vintage. 100% new oak for ageing. 40% grand vin, harvest September 7 to 30."
98 - 100 Points
Jane Anson
While tasting with Technical Director Jean-Emmanuel Danjoy, I asked if this was the highest percentage of Cabernet ever in Mouton. It is the second highest because the 2010 vintage boasted a mighty 94%. Of course, tasting at Mouton is a privilege, and this is indeed a thrilling wine, but the position that this wine holds on one’s palate compared to last year’s 2022 makes this estate so utterly incredible. I love that 2023 Mouton has no nerves as it sits in the glass awaiting analysis. And then it starts: stylish, confident, cool, and multi-faceted. While 2022 was built on ripeness, extract, and a larger dose of press wine, it is an imposing and magnificent creation, while 2023 is more linear, sleek, refined and finely honed. It has what one might call a more classical framework, with a size 13, not 14 (we are talking alcohol, not dress size) body. With a lower pH (higher acidity), lower sugar levels, and, accordingly, lower alcohol, this is a ravishing beast, and it packs intensity without weight and deceptive degrees of charm and lasciviousness despite the impeccably calm exterior. It is a black hole wine. There is so much flavour and power from a finite and focused source. The tannins pull with direction and persistence from the outer extremities of the flavour, and they build a boundless expanse of flawless Cabernet. This happens when you harvest steadfast Mouton Cabernet in late September and decorate it with pristine Merlot. This is a masterful, tense and gripping wine. It does not hide chapters of flavour and intrigue in the folds of its robes, preferring to allow you to see everything on display, and the view is serene and sensational. How can two consecutive vintages taste so similar yet so cosmically and irresistibly different? Only at Mouton. 20+/20
Matthew Jukes
Terms: Delivery Spring 2026. Excludes VAT & Duty, Payable upon delivery.
