Chateau Mouton Rothschild - 1996 (750ml) Size:750ml and 3% Petit Verdot

and 3% Petit Verdot

especially the Muscats and Tokays (actually Muscadelle)

has aged gracefully

The home vineyard is so consistent that even in vintages such as 1989 and 1998

but that I am sure informs these exuberant

Chateau Mouton Rothschild - 1996 (750ml) Size:750ml and 3% Petit Verdot95 points Vinous Media The 1996 Mouton Rothschild is the high point of what in retrospect was an inconsistent decade for this First Growth. It has a very attractive, classic Pauillac bouquet: predominantly black fruit laced with cedar, freshly rolled tobacco and light graphite scents. It is not lavish, but tightly controlled. The palate is medium bodied with fine tannins, though not as fine as recent vintages under Philippe Dhalluin. There is