2000 Margaux is a rock star! Intense aromatics. Perfectly polished layers of pure, ripe fruit fill every nook and cranny of your mouth with velvet like textures. Life is too short not to taste this wine and hopefully have at least a few bottles of it in your cellar. 100 Pts
2008 Chateau Mouton Rothschild label was designed by the noted Chinese artist Xu Lei.
The style of vintage is impressive. The wines are ripe, round, balanced and concentrated with quality fruit and in most cases silky tannins. The wines have the structure to age and evolve for decades.
2008 will probably be best known as the last afforable, high quality vintage for Bordeaux wine. Outstanding wines were produced from both the Left Bank and the Right Bank.
2008 is a strong vintage for Bordeaux wine. The wines delivering the most excitement come from Pomerol. For consumers, 2008 remains the best opportunity to purchase high quality Bordeaux for reasonable prices in the marketplace today.
Due to a lack of uniformity in the maturity of the grapes due to a long flowering and cold spring, we chose to utilize the densimetric sorting machine. This helped remove the less than ripe fruit.