Château Mouton Rothschild 2022

Wineadvocate

A brilliant wine that likely sits somewhere between the 2019 and 2020 in quality, the 2022 Mouton Rothschild is a blend of 92% Cabernet Sauvignon and 8% Merlot. Unwinding in the glass with complex aromas of minty cassis, cigar wrapper, violets and subtle hints of loamy soil, it's full-bodied, deep and concentrated, with a layered core of fruit and a fleshy, elegantly muscular profile. Broad-shouldered and seamless, it concludes with a long, resonant finish. This year the grand vin represents some 49% of the estate's production. - WK 04/2023

Vinous

Cabernet Sauvignon contents in years, matured in 100% new oak as usual. Very deep, almost opaque in color. It is stubborn on the nose, at first, backward, then opens after 10 minutes with black plum, cassis and violet aromas. It is more voluptuous than the 2022 Lafite-Rothschild which is what you expect. The palate is medium-bodied with grainy and quite strict tannins (the IPT is 76), that frame layers of black fruit laced with tobacco and graphite. Powerful, almost burly, it is perhaps how the 1986 tasted in its youth. A MoutonRothschild determined to make a statement and it certainly does that. Feels a bit like tasting Thor's hammer at the moment, but it will just require considerable cellaring. 14.05% alcohol. - NM 04/2023

Beck

Encore un de ces Mouton qui n'y va pas par quatre chemins. Il se pose, dès le départ pour annoncer de la grandeur ! Sans hésitation, avec ce savant et subtil mélange de douceur, de menthe, de boisé, de pralinés, de sureau, et j'en passe ! En bouche le vin est voluptueux, serein, ample, caressant, tapissant. Il révèle sa puissance de manière subtile, lentement le long du palais où les tannins créent un superbe lien avec la structure acide. Le vin a de l'énergie, du tempérament, de la finesse et de la persistance. Il est serein, confiant, mais il ne veut pas être envahissant, ce qu'il n'a jamais voulu d'ailleurs. Un très grand Mouton qui vise clairement une place dans le Hall of Fame de la propriété… et du millésime ! - 04/2023

Suckling

The Mouton-specific creme de cassis is all there. Al dente, too. The grapes must have been picked at near perfection. Depth and complexity. Black berries, earth, violets and other flowers. Full-bodied yet very hemmed-in with tight tannins, which are precise and polished. You can taste the grape skins and dust of the soil. The length is rather endless. 92% cabernet sauvignon. - 04/2023

Dunnuck

Moving to the flagship, the 2022 Château Mouton Rothschild is a massive, full-bodied, incredibly powerful 2022 that takes no prisoners with its ripe black and blue fruits, chocolate, graphite, and smoked tobacco-driven aromas and flavors. Deep, unctuous, and concentrated, with velvety tannins, this legendary Mouton is based on 92% Cabernet Sauvignon and 8% Merlot that's still resting in new barrel. It will unquestionably play with the top wines in the vintage. Harvest here began the 1st of September and finished on the 26th, and the final wine hit 14% natural alcohol, with a pH of 3.89 and an IPT of 76. - 05/2023