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Awards, Ratings & Reviews
100/100 — Jeff Leve, The Wine Cellar Insider · 2009 Vintage · Tasting Date: Jul 2022
“Everything that makes Mouton Rothschild one of the world's great wines is here in spades. Incredible levels of concentration with an opulence not found in other Pauillacs create the backdrop here. Unctuous, velvety, rich, and palate-staining, there is an exotic edge to the texture, countless layers of perfectly ripe fruit, purity, and a spicy edge that sets you up for a seamless finish that lasts more than 60 seconds. As good as this is, patience is going to be a virtue here, as this is only getting started. Drink from 2029-2075.”
100/100 — Falstaff · 2009 Vintage · Tasting Date: Nov 2020
“Inviting nuances of ripe cherries and fresh figs, a hint of nougat caramel, fine oak savouriness with some bourbon vanilla. Juicy, complex, ripe, dark berry fruit, good fruit expression, polished, ripe tannins, mineral in the finish.”
3 Stars — Le Guide Hachette des Vins · 2009 Vintage · Awarded: 2013
About this Vintage
Nature was particularly kind in 2009, providing conditions that favoured the vegetation cycle and helped the grapes to reach full maturity.
Winter was a little colder than usual, though in the period to March the region had 204 hours of sunshine more than the average for the last thirty years.
April was very wet and May often stormy. Flowering took place rapidly and evenly around 5 June.
Summer set in from mid-June, bringing remarkable levels of sunshine and little rainfall. The very fine weather and high level of hydric stress, barely alleviated by a few showers, enabled the grapes to ripen slowly to full maturity.
Temperatures in August were 1.4° C higher than the average. The ideal weather continued into September as cool nights alternated with hot days.
The weather, encouraging the concentration of aromas and flavours and the accumulation of anthocyans, brought the crop to harvest in perfect condition.
Label Art
by Anish Kapoor (1954-)
The sculptor, painter and visual artist Anish Kapoor, a British citizen of Indian origin, was born in Mumbai (Bombay) in 1954. He settled in England in 1972, completing his studies at Hornsey College of Art and Chelsea School of Art. In the early 1980s, the simple forms and bright colours of his first sculptures won him immediate recognition.
Kapoor had a clear idea of his intention from the outset: to give viewers access to a “poetic existence” by eliciting in them a new way of seeing things, whether in the world around them or deep within themselves. Whence those huge concave or convex mirrors which reconstruct external reality, those mysterious cavities hollowed out of blocks of rough stone, those monumental polystyrene structures which echo the shape of our dreams, into which we can sometimes enter, to discover strange effects of light. They are intimate, random, unforgettable experiences of which the artist wishes merely to be the mediator, without imparting any message.
Now celebrated as a leading figure of contemporary art, Anish Kapoor has been awarded the most coveted prizes, including the Turner Prize in 1991. His works are on display in the world’s leading museums and in prestigious public places, such as the Rockefeller Center in New York. His Leviathan at the Grand Palais in Paris in 2011 drew thousands of visitors and he has been commissioned to design the emblematic sculpture for the London Olympic Games.
At once austere and flamboyant, the gouache he has created for Mouton Rothschild 2009 expresses the fertile thrust of plant life, the result of an intense encounter between matter and light.
Producer Notes
The wine has a very deep, almost black colour with glittering highlights.
The stylish and complex nose offers a wide array of aromas, bilberry, blackcurrant and blond tobacco mingling with subtle cedarwood and spice.
The palate immediately shows all the wine’s density and refinement: very forward ripe fruit flavours are perfectly integrated with patrician, well-rounded tannins, revealing remarkable structure and balance.
The opulent and long finish confirms the very great success of this Mouton Rothschild, no effort having been spared to enable the wine to fully express the exceptional qualities of the 2009 vintage.
Specifications
- Vintage: 2009
- Grape Variety: Cabernet Sauvignon 88%, Merlot 12%
- Region: Pauillac / Médoc / Bordeaux / France
- Classification: 1er Grand Cru Classé
- Maturation: Oaked
- Oak Type: French
- Alcohol: 13%
- Sweetness: Dry
- Winemaker: Philippe Dhalluin
- Ownership: Baronne Philippine de Rothschild
- Closure: Cork
- Drinking Window: 2017–2075
