Château Mouton-Rothschild 2025
Pauillac 1er Grand Cru Classé
Bordeaux, France
Regular price£1,824.00
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Arriving: Mid 2028
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| Style: Red | Packaging: OWC |
| ABV: 13.1% | Closure: Cork |
| Organic: | Drink from: 2038 |
| Biodynamic: | Drink to: 2060 |
| Grapes: 98% Cabernet Sauvignon; 2% Merlot | |
Critic scores
97-99 RP, 95-97 NM, 96-98 AG, 99-100 JS, 98-100 JA, 98 DC, 97-99 JL, 98-100 DB, 99 GM
Critic reviews
"A blend of 98% Cabernet Sauvignon and 2% Merlot, the 2025 Mouton Rothschild is a dense, powerful wine, unwinding in the glass with aromas of crème de cassis, blueberries, espresso roast, cigar wrapper and violet. Full-bodied, deep and dense, it's rich, layered and concentrated, with prodigious mid-palate presence and a long, youthfully structured finish. Small berries in Cabernet Sauvignon, below one gram even in the older vines, explain this Mouton's remarkable intensity of flavor. The grand vin represents 52% of the production and checks in at 13.1% alcohol."
William Kelley, April 2026, RobertParker.com
"The 2025 Mouton Rothschild was picked between September 5 and 20 and matured entirely in new oak. It contains the highest Cabernet Sauvignon ever, at 98%. This has a very pure and controlled bouquet, "cool" black fruit, a light estuarine influence (oyster shells shucked down on the beach in Arcachon?) that filter through the blackberry and cassis fruit. Wonderful delineation. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannins that feel a little more rounded and suppler than the 2025 Lafite Rothschild tasted just prior. There is a luxuriant aspect, the signature of Mouton Rothschild that differentiates it from the other First Growths, not plush but perhaps a little more flattering at this very early stage thanks to its patina of creaminess. In a sense, it is quintessential Mouton Rothschild and should age extremely well in bottle. 13.1% alcohol"
Neal Martin, May 2026, Vinous.com
"The 2025 Mouton Rothschild is dense and brooding. Although naturally very, very young, all the elements are so well put together. The 2025 is 98% Cabernet Sauvignon, the most Cabernet ever in the Grand Vin, and that very much comes through in the wine's structure and overall presence. Graphite, lavender, rose petal and menthol build into the rich, heady finish. There's a ton of potential here."
Antonio Galloni, April 2026, Vinous.com
"A glamorous wine for the vintage, with mesmerizing perfumes of flowers, al dente fruit and citrus flowers. Black currants with some mineral and stone undertones. Medium- to full-bodied with ultra-fine tannins and an endless finish. The tannins lead you on a great trip. It is the most cabernet sauvignon ever used in the blend in recent memory. Balanced and structured. 98% cabernet sauvignon and 2% merlot."
James Suckling, May 2026, JamesSuckling.com
"Highest Cabernet Sauvignon on record (since 94% for the 2010 vintage), stately and reserved at first, then totally joyful. The right austerity, coupled with squid ink character and fabulous hidden depths that are going to take their time to fully unroll, with the incense of the oak coming through only after a good 10 minutes in the glass, you barely perceive it on the first tasting. What a beautiful Mouton, great stuff from wine director Jean-Philippe Danjoy. 52% Grand Vin, basically pure old vine Cabernet. And an interesting side note - in September there was no weekend picking, a clear indication that there was no stress about the harvest dates. 3.76pH. Harvest September 5 to 20. 100% new oak."
Jane Anson, April 2026, JaneAnson.com
"A fabulous Mouton with real personality and character and much more seductive than other wines from Pauillac this year. Dark fruit but cool, black cherries and berries with cola and mint touches. Juicy and upfront – immediately salivating in terms of fruit and acidity with gorgeous tannins, chalky, filling but soft not at all dry, fleshy but not too ripe. Intense, voluptuous, almost sensual and not at all austere despite the high percentage of Cabernet. One of the purest expression of what Cabernet can taste like on this site. Velvety, I just adore this for its frankness. Grippy, exciting, full of promise and energy. Wow. A potential 100-point wine."
Georgina Hindle, May 2026, Decanter.com
"(Pauillac; 98.2% Cabernet Sauvignon; 1.8% Merlot; a final yield of 30 hl/ha, the highest of the first growths; pH 3.76; 13.1% alcohol; tasted at Mouton-Rothschild with Jean-Emmanuel Danjoy). The 98.2% Cabernet Sauvignon is, of course, an historic record here and the 0.2% less Merlot had a significant bearing on the identity of the final wine, Jean-Emmanuel tells me. We have, perhaps unremarkably, Cabernet cedar and Cabernet graphite in abundance! This is truly fabulous and utterly divine. It's also strikingly intimate, though not really more closed aromatically, but certainly far less solaire than Le Petit Mouton. It's more serious, more cool at the core (indeed, that sense of coolness seems to radiate outwards from the core), more classical and more mirrorpool in its clarity, with that slightly sombre and almost haunting character of the vintage. The entry ('attack' would be too strong a word) is incredibly beautiful and so gentle. Mouton builds ever so slowly in the mouth due to the softness of the extraction. This is wine of incredible clarity. It imparts the sensation of layered purity - fine sheets of silk interspersed with layers of cashmere, the tannins delineating each horizontally and pixilating each vertically. A supreme wine, opulent but never demonstrative, incredibly profound and complete."
Colin Hay, May 2026, DrinksBusiness.com
William Kelley, April 2026, RobertParker.com
"The 2025 Mouton Rothschild was picked between September 5 and 20 and matured entirely in new oak. It contains the highest Cabernet Sauvignon ever, at 98%. This has a very pure and controlled bouquet, "cool" black fruit, a light estuarine influence (oyster shells shucked down on the beach in Arcachon?) that filter through the blackberry and cassis fruit. Wonderful delineation. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannins that feel a little more rounded and suppler than the 2025 Lafite Rothschild tasted just prior. There is a luxuriant aspect, the signature of Mouton Rothschild that differentiates it from the other First Growths, not plush but perhaps a little more flattering at this very early stage thanks to its patina of creaminess. In a sense, it is quintessential Mouton Rothschild and should age extremely well in bottle. 13.1% alcohol"
Neal Martin, May 2026, Vinous.com
"The 2025 Mouton Rothschild is dense and brooding. Although naturally very, very young, all the elements are so well put together. The 2025 is 98% Cabernet Sauvignon, the most Cabernet ever in the Grand Vin, and that very much comes through in the wine's structure and overall presence. Graphite, lavender, rose petal and menthol build into the rich, heady finish. There's a ton of potential here."
Antonio Galloni, April 2026, Vinous.com
"A glamorous wine for the vintage, with mesmerizing perfumes of flowers, al dente fruit and citrus flowers. Black currants with some mineral and stone undertones. Medium- to full-bodied with ultra-fine tannins and an endless finish. The tannins lead you on a great trip. It is the most cabernet sauvignon ever used in the blend in recent memory. Balanced and structured. 98% cabernet sauvignon and 2% merlot."
James Suckling, May 2026, JamesSuckling.com
"Highest Cabernet Sauvignon on record (since 94% for the 2010 vintage), stately and reserved at first, then totally joyful. The right austerity, coupled with squid ink character and fabulous hidden depths that are going to take their time to fully unroll, with the incense of the oak coming through only after a good 10 minutes in the glass, you barely perceive it on the first tasting. What a beautiful Mouton, great stuff from wine director Jean-Philippe Danjoy. 52% Grand Vin, basically pure old vine Cabernet. And an interesting side note - in September there was no weekend picking, a clear indication that there was no stress about the harvest dates. 3.76pH. Harvest September 5 to 20. 100% new oak."
Jane Anson, April 2026, JaneAnson.com
"A fabulous Mouton with real personality and character and much more seductive than other wines from Pauillac this year. Dark fruit but cool, black cherries and berries with cola and mint touches. Juicy and upfront – immediately salivating in terms of fruit and acidity with gorgeous tannins, chalky, filling but soft not at all dry, fleshy but not too ripe. Intense, voluptuous, almost sensual and not at all austere despite the high percentage of Cabernet. One of the purest expression of what Cabernet can taste like on this site. Velvety, I just adore this for its frankness. Grippy, exciting, full of promise and energy. Wow. A potential 100-point wine."
Georgina Hindle, May 2026, Decanter.com
"(Pauillac; 98.2% Cabernet Sauvignon; 1.8% Merlot; a final yield of 30 hl/ha, the highest of the first growths; pH 3.76; 13.1% alcohol; tasted at Mouton-Rothschild with Jean-Emmanuel Danjoy). The 98.2% Cabernet Sauvignon is, of course, an historic record here and the 0.2% less Merlot had a significant bearing on the identity of the final wine, Jean-Emmanuel tells me. We have, perhaps unremarkably, Cabernet cedar and Cabernet graphite in abundance! This is truly fabulous and utterly divine. It's also strikingly intimate, though not really more closed aromatically, but certainly far less solaire than Le Petit Mouton. It's more serious, more cool at the core (indeed, that sense of coolness seems to radiate outwards from the core), more classical and more mirrorpool in its clarity, with that slightly sombre and almost haunting character of the vintage. The entry ('attack' would be too strong a word) is incredibly beautiful and so gentle. Mouton builds ever so slowly in the mouth due to the softness of the extraction. This is wine of incredible clarity. It imparts the sensation of layered purity - fine sheets of silk interspersed with layers of cashmere, the tannins delineating each horizontally and pixilating each vertically. A supreme wine, opulent but never demonstrative, incredibly profound and complete."
Colin Hay, May 2026, DrinksBusiness.com