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Château Mouton Rothschild – From Marquis to Barons
Château Mouton Rothschild took its present name after Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild acquired it from the English branch of the famous dynasty in 1853.
For many years, despite the increasingly acknowledged quality of its wine, Mouton aroused little interest among its owners.
They were unwilling to make the journey to a then-neglected region.
So it was a red-letter day when, in 1922, Baron Philippe de Rothschild, barely 20 years old and the great grandson of Baron Nathaniel, took in hand the destiny of an estate to which he would devote his entire life.
In 1924, Baron Philippe decided to bottle all the wine at the château.
In doing so, he asserted the role and responsibility of the owners of top growths against the all-powerful Bordeaux wine trade.
Hitherto, the merchants received the wine in barrels.
This decision, soon embraced by others, meant that the château had to increase its storage space.
The architect Charles Siclis designed the spectacular Grand Chai (Great Barrel Hall) at Mouton, which they built in 1926.
1989 red wine gift – Château Mouton Rothschild 1989
The 1989 Château Mouton Rothschild garners high regard as a Bordeaux First Growth wine.
It is known for its elegance, complexity, and unique artist-designed label commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Furthermore, the 1989 vintage in Bordeaux experienced exceptional, warm, and sunny weather conditions.
This led to one of the century’s earliest harvests.
Consequently, critics widely praise this wine for its depth and structure.
Specifically, winemakers blended predominantly Cabernet Sauvignon (78%) with Cabernet Franc (14%) and Merlot (8%).
Moreover, experts consider it to be at its peak drinking phase and, without a doubt, regard it as a classic, age-worthy wine.
Reviewers note, in particular, that they detect an intense and evolving bouquet of cedar, blackcurrant, spice, tobacco leaf, and mint.
In addition, some also discover hints of allspice, liquorice, and toasted oak.
As a result, the wine presents medium to full-bodied characteristics with supple, well-integrated, and sometimes grainy tannins.
Moreover, tasters identify rich black fruit, wild strawberry, and a continuation of the cedar and tobacco aromas.
Overall, experts describe it as balanced, complex, and elegant.
Furthermore, it boasts a persistent, long, and harmonious finish.
Finally, Arden Fine Wines suggests that you can enjoy the wine in its peak drinking phase now.
However, we also recommend enjoying it through to 2030 or potentially longer.
Georg Baselitz
German painter Hans Georg Kern (Georg Baselitz) designed the 1989 Mouton label.
Baselitz (1938-) took his name from his native town, where he was born in Deutschbaselitz in Saxony as Hans Georg Kern.
He learned nothing about contemporary art until he left East Germany at the age of twenty.
Initially, his painting displayed an iconoclastic licence and a preoccupation with certain powerfully provocative images – mutilated feet, distorted penises, despairing masks – and showcased a subversive violence allied to a spiritual quest reminiscent of Antonin Artaud or Baudelaire.
In 1969, he painted his first “upside-down” painting.
Since then, all his work has employed this conceit, allowing him to find a “new distance” from the subject he paints and to impose, without being any less figurative, a literal revolution on the way the public looks at the world.
His upside-down rams for the Mouton Rothschild 1989 label combine the traditional Mouton emblem with the great historical shock of that year: the demolition of the Berlin Wall.
He added the words “Drüben sein jetzt hier” – “Over there is now over here.”
