2010 Chateau Mouton Rothschild Pauillac (375 mL) Half-Bottle

• Cabernet Sauvignon
• 2010
• France
• Pauillac

• The Story

  First Growth Château Mouton Rothschild has earned so much praise over the years that it’s rare to find a rave that doesn’t just blend in with the rest. But Decanter’s Ian D’Agata managed to say something about the 2010 that cut through it all: “If you and your friends were to splurge on just one wine in your life, this would be a fine choice.” This bottle will go down with 1982 and 1986 as one of the greatest Mouton Rothschilds ever. It boasts three 100-point scores and checks all the boxes: incredible density and power, complexity like a Russian novel, and suave, glamorous fruit welded to an iron structure that should assure near-immortality.

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• Wine Facts
  • Fruit Intensity
  • Oak Intensity
  • Body
  • Acidity
  • Tannin

  • ABV 13.50%
  • 1 hour
  • Now - 2050
  • 94% Cabernet Sauvignon
    6% Merlot
  • Serving temperature - 58°
  • Cork
• Wine Access Tasting Note

  Deep ruby, developing a touch of garnet at the rim. A shy beast, opening with a little air to reveal powerful aromas of creme de cassis, blackberry, pencil shavings, dark tobacco, saddle leather, and a hint of truffle.  Full bodied, with tannins that are still super firm and grippy, protecting a core of youthful black fruits that have begun to develop just a touch of a baked character. Underlying notes of graphite, cedar chest, and tobacco dance throughout in a complex, powerful, surpassingly long finish. Just starting to open up, this legendary bottling has a long life ahead of it. Drink now–2050.

• Food Pairings
  • Hard Cheese
  • Cured Meat
  • Red Meat
• Critic Reviews

  100 pts

  Vinous

  A wine of noble bearing and exceptional beauty, the 2010 Mouton Rothschild is a flat-out stunner. The aromatics alone are beguiling. On the palate, the wine is every bit as thrilling, with myriad layers of flavor that continue to open up in the glass. Graphite, gravel, smoke, plum, black cherry and savory herbs are all strikingly delineated throughout. Vivid and crystalline, the 2010 is a jewel of a wine, but it is impossibly young now. Readers who can be patient will be treated to a fabulous wine. Today, the 2010 reminds me of a more civilized version of the 1986. The 2010 is 94% Cabernet Sauvignon (the highest amount of Cabernet ever here). Dollops of Merlot round out the blend. Harvest took place between September 29 and October 13. -Antonio Galloni

  100 pts

  Decanter

  Smoked grilled tar on the nose, it feels both very 2010 and supremely Mouton - accomplished and confident. A more glamorous, enticing edge than the other Pauillac Firsts at this 10 year window. There are plentiful tannins but they are lined with air, and the overall feel is of plush, plumped fruits, like being rolled-up in luxurious sheets. It is very different in character to the other two Pauillac Firsts, but no less enjoyable. It feels higher in alcohol, more Cos than Lafite in terms of personality, in the way that Pichon Baron is more Latour than Comtesse, but it is nuanced and clever and surprising

  100 pts

  James Suckling

  Clearly a perfect wine that shows incredible depth of fruit with currants, dark chocolate, minerals and licorice. Full-bodied, tight and wound up with ripe tannins that let go and seduce you. Makes me want to drink it now. But this is a wine for the long term. Extraordinary. 94% cabernet sauvignon. Better in 2020.