Ratings & Tasting Notes:
100 points James Suckling
Review Date: 11/2010
What an amazing red. It’s so very youthful with toasted oak, light vanilla, and dark berries such as currants and blueberries. Then it turns to mint. This is so fresh and intensely fruity. It lasts for minutes on your palate with each sip. It is so powerful yet elegant. It will improve for hundreds of years. I would still leave it in my cellar for five or ten years. If you need to drink it, decant it three to four hours in advance.
100 points Wine Advocate
Review Date: 06/2009
This wine remains one of the legends of Bordeaux. It has thrown off the backward, youthful style that existed during its first 25 years of life, and over the last 4-5 years has developed such secondary nuances as cedar and spice box. The creme de cassis, underlying floral note, full-bodied power, extraordinary purity, multilayered texture, and finish of over a minute are a showcase for what this Chateau accomplished in 1982. The wine is still amazingly youthful, vibrant, and pure. It appears capable of remaining fruity and vibrant in 2082! Thank God it is beginning to budge, as I would like to drink most of my supply before I kick the bucket. This is a great, still youthful wine, and, on occasion, one does understand the hierarchy of Bordeaux chateaux when you see the complexity and brilliance of this first-growth. Anticipated maturity: 2015-2050+ (RP)
Cult Wines International Notes:
The 1982 Château Mouton Rothschild is one of the most legendary and iconic vintages in Bordeaux history, a powerhouse wine from the celebrated 1982 vintage that heralded a global shift toward riper, more opulent winemaking styles. Made primarily from Cabernet Sauvignon (around 85%), this Pauillac First Growth is renowned for its hedonistic richness, exceptional concentration, and profound longevity. Key characteristics include an explosion of aromas—often described as crème de cassis, cedar, cigar box, graphite, and exotic spices—that become layered with truffle and earth notes as it matures. Critically, the 1982 Mouton Rothschild was a seminal wine for critic Robert Parker Jr., whose passionate and perfect scores for it and the vintage as a whole launched the modern era of wine criticism and collector demand for ripe, powerful Bordeaux. The wine itself is full-bodied and enveloping, presenting a beautiful balance of sweet, ripe fruit with velvety, yet serious, tannins. Even decades after bottling, it retains an amazing youthfulness and purity, capable of drinking brilliantly for many more years, and is celebrated as a quintessential, flamboyant expression of the Pauillac terroir. As with all Mouton vintages, it is also notable for its label, which in 1982 featured an original artwork by director John Huston.
Bottle Size:
750 mL
Storage History:
Always stored on its side in a climate-controlled cellar.
Condition:
Please note: The bottle shown is the exact bottle being sold.
Outstanding condition.
