Jamessuckling.com | JS 92
Published: Mar 27, 2015

This shows focus and precision with currant, dark-berry and basil-leaf character on both the nose and palate. Full-bodied, tight and precise. Try after 2022. 

The Wine Advocate | RP 90-92
Published: Apr 28, 2017

The 2016 Moulin Riche is a blend of 63% Cabernet Sauvignon, 26% Merlot and 11% Petit Verdot and matured in 30% new oak. It had a very opulent, ravishing bouquet with perhaps just a little more volatile acidity than some of its peers, although that will be contained by the time it is in bottle (it is not something that particularly bothers me in a wine's infancy). The palate is very smooth on the entry with succulent black cherries and black plums, a smear of vanilla and a gentle grip on the minerally finish. This will be a seductive Deuxi?me vin that should give a decade's worth of drinking pleasure. 
Drink Date: 2021 - 2034

Winemaker

Chateau MOULIN RICHE expresses its own personality with Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. Supple tannins make the wine more approachable in its youth.

We have just made an assembly. You saw what it represented an assembly; it'srelatively simple. In fact we take samples of lots separated who each have a personality and we try to marry them. So it'sas simple as a wedding and it'scomplicated as a wedding at the same time, because you have to find the right synergies. We have lots of elements, we can put them together, it never gives the same result at the end.

The role that I have, and that we all have because you have seen that it is a team effort - even if no one in the end disputes when I find that we have the right blend - but it'sstill a team effort, so our role is to try to find the potential of each wine and the potential that each wine is capable of bringing to this blend, which will in fact be the identity of the property in a given vintage.