I tasted this over Sunday lunch with the family. First of
all the bottle looks like it’s a wine bottle on steroids: very wide shoulders
on it compared to the classic shape claret bottle of the Mouton Rothschild 1982.
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| A bottle on steroids the Mouton Rothschild 2004 |
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| Artwork by Prince Charles |
We decanted it for roughly an hour before consumption and
during the time it took to drink it didn’t do much in the glass. Although it
was pleasant, it seemed to fade away a bit towards the end of the bottle.
Saying that, the Mouton 2004 is drinking surprisingly well considering it’s age
but it has a long life left ahead of it still with great length on the palate,
lovely fruits and silky tannin. On the nose there is lots of classic cedar, dark
fruit and graphite. There is a lovely rounded finish on the palate. This Mouton is intense and quite complex with tannin balanced by the fruit and acidity. I
feel it will only get better with time and at some point I have no doubt it
will become excellent. Enjoyable to drink right now but better left to cellar
at least for a few more years. A typical young Mouton.
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