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1 Bottle 1996 Château Mouton Rothschild, Pauillac

Currency:EUR Category:Collectibles Start Price:170.00 EUR Estimated At:280.00 - 340.00 EUR
1 Bottle 1996 Château Mouton Rothschild, Pauillac
One bottle of Château Mouton Rothschild
1996 vintage
Pauillac, Bordeaux/France
Label designed by Gu Gan (born 1942)
Original filling quantity: 0.75 l
Fill level: high fill
Robert Parker (1999): 94/100
James Suckling (2007): 96/100
René Gabriel (2014): 19/20

This lot comprises two bottles of 1996 vintage Château Mouton-Rothschild from the Pauillac appellation in Bordeaux. The label was designed Gu Gan (born 1942), the first Chinese artist to receive this honour.

The Pauillac appellation produces some of the world’s most highly-prized and expensive red wines. Situated to the northwest of the city of Bordeaux, near the Atlantic coast, its vineyards are located on dried-out swamplands. Vines take root in gravel dunes with subterranean clay lens. Here, Cabernet Sauvignon can develop a unique depth of taste and power, so the grape variety therefore makes up a large percentage of the Pauillac cuvées. The tannin-rich, powerful, concentrated wines require longer bottle-ageing in order to differentiate and reveal their taste. The Classification of 1855 put the vineyards of the Lafite-Rothschild and Latour estates ahead of the pack, awarding them Premier cru status. Mouton-Rothschild has also belonged to the club since 1973. In second place are the Deuxième crus of Pichon-Longueville-Baron and Pichon-Longueville-Comtesse de Lalande. For decades, however, experts have judged them as being at least on a par with their Premier cru counterparts. This is also the case for numerous other top wines from this appellation.

The fill level is excellent (high fill). The label and capsule are in perfect condition.

Château Mouton-Rothschild

Château Mouton-Rothschild in Pauillac near Bordeaux is one of the most famous vineyards in the world. It is owned by the banking family Rothschild. The vineyard of today is the life’s work of Baron Philippe de Rothschild, whom it was signed over on October 22, 1922, when he was a young man. Striving for excellence and searching for new methods, he consistently improved the quality of the Château’s output. His first innovation was bottling the entire vintage at the vineyard, in order to maintain the quality of production: “Mise en Bouteille au Château”. The reward finally came in 1973, when the Château Mouton-Rothschild was reclassified from Deuxième to Premier Cru (First Growth), the only change to have been made in the history of the official classification.

Mouton has 82 hectares vine area, made up of 77 % Cabernet Sauvignon, 12 % Merlot, 9 % Cabernet Franc and 2 % Petit Verdot. Château Mouton-Rothschild lies on a slope that is up to 30 m high. The over 8 m layer of gravel of this slope lies on a chalk base, coming from alluvial deposits of the nearby Gironde from the Pyrenees towards the end of the Beestonian stage. The grape variety Cabernet Sauvignon grows splendidly on this soil.
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