The 2015 Château Mouton Rothschild is a full-bodied, rich wine with deep garnet color and a purple tint. It offers an elegant nose with fruity aromas of wild blackberry and bilberry, followed by notes of toasted liquorice and blond tobacco. The palate reveals smooth, creamy tannins, complemented by a silky texture and a touch of minerality. With great intensity and an exceptionally long finish, this wine is beautifully balanced, showcasing ripe fruit and peppery spice flavors. It is a remarkable wine, destined to age gracefully for decades. The label was designed by Gerhard Richter.

Jamessuckling.com | JS 99
Published: Feb 2, 2018

Decadent and rich aromas of black cherries and plums with wet earth and sandalwood. Turns to dried mushrooms. Full-bodied, tight and closed with big, polished tannins, yet this is very closed and shy right now. Despite this, underneath it shows such depth and beauty. Tangy acidity. This is a combination of 2005 and 2009. Try it in 2024. 

The Wine Advocate | RP 98
Published: Feb 22, 2018
Drink: 2025-2055 

The 2015 Mouton Rothschild is a blend of 82% Cabernet Sauvignon, 16% Merlot and 2% Cabernet Franc aged in 100% new oak with a mid-July 2017 bottling. Deep garnet-purple colored, this Mouton pulls off an incredibly impactful entrance, emerging from the glass with profound notes of blackberry preserves, plum pudding, creme de cassis and grilled meats, featuring perfectly accessorized accents of sandalwood, cinnamon stick and fenugreek with wafts of dried roses, unsmoked cigars and tilled soil. Medium to full-bodied, the palate is completely packed with rich, ripe black fruits sparked with blue and red fruit undertones and an incredible structure of very firm, very ripe tannins, with seamless freshness and an epically long, earth-laced finish. Possessing striking natural beauty framed by impeccable crafting, this 2015 is a total diva and well worth attention. Give it a good 7-8 years in bottle, at least, and drink it over the next 30 years. 

Decanter | D 98
Published: Nov 2, 2017
Drink: 2025-2045

Gorgeously confident and rich in colour, you can see the silkiness in the glass from the first look. This has 11% press wine, which tells you how good the skins were and how gently they extract at first. Winemaker Philippe Dhalluin and team have really succeeded in this vintage. It is beautifully integrated, and full of verve and sexiness, just stopping short of swagger. It approaches the heights of 2015 in the most successful appellations and will age well. Bottled in June, with zero oxygen added at bottling and just 25 ppm of SO2.

Closure: Natural Cork
Body: Full
Grapes: 2% Cabernet Franc 82% Cabernet Sauvignon 16% Merlot

Jancisrobinson.com | JR 17+
Published: Mar 28, 2025
Drink: 2023-2035

82% Cabernet Sauvignon, 16% Merlot, 2% Cabernet Franc.
Leather, aniseed, menthol: the nose is open wide, even if the palate is closed. For Pauillac, this seems lighter and easier than expected. Not exactly the typical Mouton signature? At ten years old, it's only just warming up; leave it longer in bottle if you want the main event. 

Chateau-mouton-rothschild.com

The wine has an attractive, deep and dark colour with a purple tint. 
The refined and elegant nose reveals fruity wild blackberry and bilberry aromas. Notes of toasts, liquorice and blond tobacco then emerge to fill out a rich and complex range of aromas.
The fresh, full-bodied and slightly saline attack shows great intensity, opening on smooth and creamy tannins which enfold a silky texture lifted by a touch of minerality.
The impression on the palate is very full, rich in ripe fruit and peppery spice flavours. An exceptionally long finish concludes a remarkably balanced wine.

Illustration of the label: Gerhard Richter (1932-)