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The 2005 Mouton-Rothschild has developed magnificently, and is even better than I remember. The final blend was 85% Cabernet Sauvignon, 14% Merlot and 1% Cabernet Franc. Stunning notes of crème de cassis, melted asphalt, roasted espresso and cedarwood are present in this young, full-bodied, powerful, concentrated Mouton. Just beginning to enter its adolescence, it should hit full maturity in 10-15 years and last for 50 or more. The greatness of this vintage is increasingly apparent as the wines throw off their cloaks of tannin.

The 2005 Château Mouton-Rothschild is a deeply impressive First Growth. It has been blessed with a sensational nose that comes racing out of the blocks with audacious scents of black fruit, cedar, smoke and pencil box (Philippe Dhalluin mentioned that the signature smokiness/fireside hearth was tangible in around 80% of the vats during élevage). There is a sense of bravura here, of aristocracy. The palate is medium-bodied with sumptuous black fruit, perhaps beginning to soften in texture, one or two years off its plateau. There are layers and layers of black fruit intermingling with graphite and black pepper, and it wisely reins everything in on the finish that is more classic in style and in keeping with the vintage. If you are fortunate enough to have this wine in your cellar, even though those tannins are starting to be abraded by time, afford it another five or six years.

The Chateau Mouton Rothschild 2006 wine is truly a masterpiece. A majestic, complex, rich, intoxicating nose with exciting, racy, pure cassis notes leads on to a sublime, multi, multi-layered palate with a precise, cool, silky core of the ripest blackcurrants with a generous dollop of double cream. This really is a spectacular, flawless wine that not only rivals the other 2005 First Growths but surpasses 2 or 3 of them.

The 2008 Chateau Mouton Rothschild Premier Grand Cru Classe wine has a very high proportion of Cabernet Sauvignon in the blend once again. This Chateau Mouton Rothschild wine from Pauillac displays a very rich range of aromas and flavours throughout the tasting. The first nose is intense and open: red fruit, blackberry and blackcurrant combine harmoniously with floral notes such as violet. On airing, roasted, toasted notes mingle graciously with delicate touches of cedarwood. 

This First Growth wine opens with a lively, powerful and full-bodied attack, releasing silky, velvet tannins. This 2008 Chateau Mouton Rothschild has a forward fruit on black berry flavours is set off by toasted notes and a delicious touch of vanilla, while the powerful and harmonious finish displays very attractive length. This 2008 Chateau Mouton Rothschild wine is a Cellar Selection.

The 2008 Chateau Mouton Rothschild wine is rich, opulent in character. There is power here, with richness of fruit and texture. It is both serious side and exuberant, with its bursting black berry fruits.

96 points Decanter
96 points Wine Enthusiast
94 points James Suckling

The 2012 Chateau Mouton Rothschild 1er cru classe is powerful, impressive wine is comprised of 90% Cabernet Sauvignon. One of the top ten wines of the vintage, this 2012 Chateau Mouton Rothschild has a deep ruby color and perfumed nose of red berries, cassis, flint, vanilla and peppery spices. This Mouton Rothschild wine is seriously structured, with loads of black currants and dark tannin, and revels on the finish with the juicy, fresh acidity of this vintage. The palate is beautifully balanced with great vim and vigor.

A fine Mouton Rothschild, this is the first vintage produced in the chateau’s new cellar. For Chateau Mouton Rothschild wine, the 2012 vintage was year was full of contrasts. A cold and dry winter was followed by an unreliable spring and an exceedingly dry summer. The harvest began on October 1 and ended on October 15. 2012 will be a historic year as the new cellars, after almost three years of work, welcomed its first harvest.

98 points Wine Enthusiast
97 points James Suckling
97 points Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate

The 2007 Chateau Palmer wine has a bright ruby-red. This 2007 Palmer wine has a lovely lift to the aromas of raspberry, Asian spices and flowers. Supple and intensely flavored, with an almost pinot like silkiness of texture to its red fruit and spice fla vors. This Chateau Palmer wine is very graceful, lush wine with real depth and finishes subtle, gripping and long. This Margaux wine is medium-bodied, with fine tannins and a delicately fruity finish, along with smoky wood. The 2007 Chateau Palmer wine Very polished and a true success from a demanding vintage year.

The 2007 Chateau Palmer wine has a of blend of 49% Merlot, 44% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 7% Petit Verdot, the 2007 Palmer possesses.

90 points Wine Spectator
89 points Robert Parker

The 2014 Chateau Palmer wine builds on the promise that it showed in barrel. This 2014 Chateau Palmer wine is a Cellar Selection. It is clearly a more understated and nuanced Palmer from winemaker Thomas Duroux this year, but a Margaux with exquisite delineation and precision, hints of blackberry, boysenberry and a touch of pencil box. The palate is medium-bodied with very fine tannin. It feels supple and lithe in the mouth. It will not have the depth and power of the subsequent 2015 Palmer, yet the flow is very sensual and the Merlot (45% of the blend) just lends it roundness and a caressing texture. What a beautiful Margaux wine and I bet it will be deceptively long-lived.

The 2014 Chateau Palmer wine is up with the crème de la crème of the vintage and should merit an even higher score in 5-7 years. The 2014 Chateau Palmer wine has a blend of 49% Cabernet Sauvignon, 45% Merlot and the rest Petit Verdot brought up in 65%.

97 points Wine Enthusiast
95 points James Suckling
94 points Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate

The 2015 Chateau Palmer is a wine of total refinement and class. This Margaux wine has all the elements are wonderfully meshed together, as they always have been from the very start. This 2015 Chateau Palmer wine has a dark black cherry, plum, mocha, licorice, spice and leather notes are all seamless in the glass. The tannins are present, but they are silky and pretty much buried by the sheer luxuriousness of the fruit. An excellent vintage overall in the appellation and a brilliant Palmer. This 2015 Chateau Palmer wine is a Cellar Selection. Drink from 2027.

The 2015 Chateau Palmer wine was bottled relatively late in mid-September 2017, the 2015 Palmer is a blend of 44% Merlot and 50% Cabernet Sauvignon with a small portion of Petit Verdot. Medium to deep garnet-purple colored, it offers vibrant red currants, black cherries, wild blueberries, earth and mineral characteristics to begin, with slowly unfurling floral notes of violets and dried roses plus compelling baker’s chocolate and fragrant earth layers. Medium to full-bodied, generously fruited and possessing firm yet very, very fine-grained, mind-blowingly ripe tannins, the multifaceted palate features something of a skip in its step in terms of freshness, while it goes beguilingly earthy on the finish with some mineral hints. Very classy, elegant and sophisticated, this vintage is downright regal in its juxtaposition between poise and audaciousness. Think 2005 Palmer with a tick more fruit intensity, perfume and passion.

100 points James Suckling
98 points Decanter
98 points Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate

One of the wines of the vintage on the Left Bank, the 2017 Chateau Palmer wine is fresh and vibrant, with tons of energy. Veins of supporting salinity and floral overtones lend grace to the Grand Vin in 2017. The Grand Vin of the eponymous estate, the 2017 Chateau Palmer yet again confirms the excellence of its rank, having become one of the must-have’s of the Bordeaux wine market.

With a blend dominated by Merlot (54%), complemented by Cabernet Sauvignon (42%) and Petit Verdot (4%), Chateau Palmer 2017 clearly illustrates the philosophy of the estate. Perfectly balanced without being too overwhelming, this wine seduces with its harmony on the palate, developing an aromatic intensity upon a precise frame that reveals the softness of melted tannins. Bearing a unique and already magnificent style, the 2017 Chateau Palmer wine evolve remarkable over time, offering the kind of noble depth to which only the greatest Grands Crus hold the secret.

98 points James Suckling
97 points Wine Advocate
96 points Vinous

The 2014 Chateau Petit Figeac Grand Cru Classe wine is an elegant, very delicate, delicious and deep, distinguished, seductive wine. A neighbour of Cheval Blanc, Figeac, with its 40 hectares of vines, today remains the largest estate of the Saint-Émilion commune. The 2014 Chateau Petit-Figeac is laced with the essence of sweet dark cherry, plum, tobacco, mint, licorice and leather. Pliant, supple and expressive, it is a highly appealing second wine. The second wine of Chateau Figeac is a worthy reflection of its older sibling. Hailing from the exceptional terroir of Chateau Figeac, Saint-Émilion Premier Grand Cru Classé, Petit-Figeac is produced by the same teams, under the direction of Frédéric Faye.

92 points Wine Enthusiast
91 points James Suckling

The 2015 Chateau Petit Figeac wine is very powerful with lots of dark chocolate and blueberry character. The medium to deep garnet purple colored 2015 Petit Figeac wine reveals notes of warm cherries, red currant jelly, aniseed and forest floor with touches of wild blueberries and blackberries. This St-Emilion wine is medium-bodied, very finely crafted, elegant and refreshing. This Petit Figeac wine fills the mouth with open-knit red and black fruits, finishing with a velvety texture paving the way.

This 2015 Chateau Petit Figeac wine is composed of 32% Merlot, 48% Cabernet Sauvignon and 20% Cabernet Franc.

93 points James Suckling
93 points Wine Enthusiast
91 points Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate

The 2014 Chateau Pibran wine is soft, pleasant and quite pretty. Sweet tobacco, earthy notes, smoke, iron and cedar add attractive savory underpinnings. Very floral and vivid on the nose with lovely ripe Cabernet character that showcases currants and berries. Full body, tight and silky tannins and a juicy finish. This Pauillac wine has balance and beauty.

This 2014 Chateau Pibran is a bit unusual in that the blend is 70% Cabernet Sauvignon and 30% Merlot rather than the more typical 50/50.

92 points James Suckling
91 points Wine Enthusiast
90 points Wine Spectator

Medium to deep garnet-purple in color, the 2015 Chateau Pichon Baron Longueville wine is enticingly scented of chocolate-covered cherries, crushed red currants and mulberries with touches of baking spices, potpourri and bay leaves plus a hint of fallen leaves. Sumptuously elegant, refreshing and medium-bodied with gorgeous, expressive, perfumed red fruits and very fine, very firm tannins, it has a persistent, perfumed finish. Its remarkable intensity, freshness and very firm frame suggest a long-lived Pichon Baron, which should cellar gracefully for 30+ years.

Reminding me of the 1990, the 2015 Chateau Pichon Baron Longueville is a sensational bottle of wine made from 80% Cabernet Sauvignon and 20% Merlot that spent 18 months in 80% new French oak.

97 points Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate
95 points Decanter
94 points Wine Spectator

The 2016 Chateau Pichon Longueville wine is a beauty. This 2016 Chateau Pichon Longueville wine has a blend of 85% Cabernet Sauvignon and 15% Merlot that was brought up in 80% new French oak. Tasting like a hypothetical mix of the 2009 and 2010, its deep purple color is followed by a powerful yet sensationally pure bouquet of crème de cassis, blackberries, lead pencil shavings, and graphite, and is just about as quintessentially Pauillac as it gets. Full-bodied, fleshy and even a touch flamboyant, it has sweet tannins and a monster texture that coats the palate. Count me in as a huge fan. This Chateau Pichon Longueville is a fabulous wine will be relatively approachable in just 3-5 years but will age for 30 years or more. Drink 2022-2052.

Deep and translucent to the core, the 2014 Pontet-Canet is one of the sexiest wines of the vintage. A host of violets, lavender, mint, spices, new leather and plums grace the palate in an utterly exquisite wine endowed with magnificent yet understated depth and crystalline purity. This is without question one of the highlights of the vintage. The 2014 isn’t a big wine; rather it is a Pauillac built on a total sense of finesse. The 2014 was vinified in equal parts cement and oak, and is aging in a combination of 50% new oak, 35% amphora and 15% once used barrels. The blend is 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot and 5% Petit Verdot.

The 2014 Chateau Pontet Canet is a Cellar Selection since it has a huge potential over many years.

98 points James Suckling
96 points Wine Enthusiast
94 points Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate

The 2015 Chateau Pontet Canet has a vindication of Jean-Michel Comme’s obsession with detail. A true Pauillac powerhouse, with a super-ripe dark cherry, plum, spice and exotic floral notes build as the 2015 shows off its alluring personality. This red wine has succulent fruits, rich tannins and juicy acidity are in perfect harmony in this wine produced from biodynamic grapes. This 2015 Chateau Pontet Canet is a Cellar Selection wine.

This 2015 Chateau Pontet Canet is made of 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot and the rest Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot brought up in 50% new oak, and 35% in amphora. Anticipated maturity: 2022 – 2045.

98 points James Suckling
97 points Decanter
97 points Wine Enthusiast

The 2018 Chateau Pontet Canet is a Cellar Selection wine. This 2018 Chateau Pontet Canet wine has a deep garnet-purple color. In the glass you get a richly nuanced and aromatic glass of Pontet. Plum, gooseberry, cassis, rosemary, violet, tobacco leaf, sage and white pepper.

This 2018 vintage has a rich, seductive, full-bodied palate is a hedonist’s dream, delivering layer-upon-layer of black and red berry preserves with loads of fragrant accents, a beautifully firm yet plush texture and tons of freshness, finishing long with a whole firework display of exotic spices.

This Pauillac wine was matured in new oak barrels (55%) while the rest of the ageing was done in concrete amphora (45%). It is made from a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon (70%), Merlot (22%), Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot (3%).

98 points James Suckling
98 points Wine Advocate
98 points Wine Enthusiast