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2020 Le Petit Mouton de Mouton Rothschild

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October 12, 2025 - $200

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RATINGS

98James Suckling

Lots of violets, blackberries, bark and iodine. Oyster shell. Full-bodied. Firm and velvety tannins with a long and satisfying finish. Juicy... Chewy and soft.

95Vinous / IWC

...fabulous. Dark red plum, blood orange, pomegranate, mint and cinnamon all build as this flamboyant, striking Petit Mouton shows off its considerable charms... Bright acids perk up the mid-palate, leading to the brilliant, sculpted finish...has come together beautifully with élevage.

94Decanter Magazine (points)

Smells wonderful, perfumed, herbal, milk chocolate, ripe blackberries, cherries and blackcurrants...you get a sense of fullness on the nose. Supple, beautifully balanced and textured, round but direct...settles in the right places. Really elegant and classy...with persistence and confidence...overall gorgeous tetue, weight, balance, and push still with excellent acidity, ripe fruits and an element of minerality that cleans the tongue. Sharp, serious and long. A great wine that's a joy to taste.

94+ Jeb Dunnuck

...offers a rich, powerful, concentrated, and medium to full-bodied style as well as ample darker currant and cassis fruits, some tobacco and spicy oak, a great mid-palate, and outstanding length on the finish.

93The Wine Advocate

Offering up aromas of cassis, cigar wrapper and violets...medium to full-bodied, fleshy and enveloping, with a broad attack and a layered, concentrated mid-palate.

93Wine Enthusiast

...dense, the tannins and black fruits giving intensity. It has a softer side, with sweet black fruits that are generous and rounded.

17.5Jancis Robinson

Dark, pure, savoury and smoky. Oaky, too. Smells so pure despite the oak sweetness. Really fine tannins, extremely pure with tannic finesse. Harmonious, the power hidden under an elegant exterior.

PRODUCER

Château Mouton Rothschild (Second Label)

Chateau Mouton Rothschild is legendary estate. It was purchased in 1853 by Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild and in 1924 his successors became the first Bordeaux vignerons to introduce estate bottling. Although the chateau was not selected as one of the four First Growth Chateaux in the historic 1855 classification, Mouton Rothschild was elevated from a second growth to first growth in 1973, the only chateau ever to be moved from the second to first classification. The Rothschild talent for marketing and innovation also resulted in the wine industry’s first high-profile label design program. Since 1945 the chateau has each year commissioned a famous artist to design the label. The list of contributors includes Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol. In Pauillac Mouton has 205 acres under cultivation, which includes 77% Cabernet Sauvignon, 12% Merlot, 9% Cabernet Franc and 2% Petit Verdot. On average the vines are nearly 50 years old. Annual production is 300,000 bottles of Chateau Mouton Rothschild.

REGION

France, Bordeaux, Pauillac

Pauillac is Bordeaux’s most famous appellation, thanks to the fact that it is home to three of the region’s fabled first-growth châteaux, Lafite-Rothschild, Mouton-Rothschild and Latour. Perched on the left bank of the Gironde River north of the city of Bordeaux, Pauillac is centered around the commune of Pauillac and includes about 3,000 acres of vineyards. The Bordeaux classification of 1855 named 18 classified growths, including the three above mentioned First Growths. Cabernet Sauvignon is the principal grape grown, followed by Merlot. The soil is mostly sandy gravel mixed with marl and iron. Robert M. Parker Jr. has written that “the textbook Pauillac would tend to have a rich, full-bodied texture, a distinctive bouquet of black currants, licorice and cedary scents, and excellent aging potential.”

VINTAGE

2020 Le Petit Mouton de Mouton Rothschild

This is a second label of Château Mouton Rothschild