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| Tradename：Chateau Mouton Rothschild 1996 |
| Item No.：FBPa028 |
| Grape Varieties：Cabernet Sauvignon,Merlot,Petit Verdot,Cabernet Franc |
| Classification：1st Growth 1855 Pauillac |
| Appellation：Pauillac |
| Alcohol：12.5% |
| Specification：750ml |
| Decanting time： |
Original Bottle：2 hours |
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Decanter：1 hour |
| Scores： |
Robert Parker：94
Wine Spectator：94
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| Tasting Note： |
Wine Advocate # 122 (4/1/1999) Rating: 94 points Drink: 2007-2030
This estate's staff believes that the 1996 Mouton-Rothschild is very complex. I agree that among the first-growths, this wine is showing surprising forwardness and complexity in its aromatics. It possesses an exuberant, flamboyant bouquet of roasted coffee, cassis, smoky oak, and soy sauce. The impressive 1996 Mouton-Rothschild offers impressive aromas of black currants, framboise, coffee, and new saddle leather. This full-bodied, ripe, rich, concentrated, superbly balanced wine is paradoxical in the sense that the aromatics suggest a far more evolved wine than the flavors reveal. By the way, the 1996 blend consists of 72% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Merlot, and 8% Cabernet Franc. - Robert Parker
Wine Spectator (1/31/1999) Score: 94
Gorgeous aromas of spices, berries, chocolate and raspberries introduce this pedigreed bottling. A glorious young wine that gets better and better as you taste it, it's full-bodied and incredibly silky, with super-integrated tannins and a long, long aftertaste. At its best after 2004.
Decanter Rating：
Classic nose, perfumed, new oak, cassis, touch of mint. Rich, quite burly, masses of fruit. Good underlying acidity, needs time. Has concentration and length. Drink 5-10+ years. |
| Food Match： |
Western food: Tasty abalone, grilled red meat, and tasty mushrooms. Grilled meat, chicken or ducked roasted and meat with red wine sauces. (Chateau recommendation); Beef, poultry, cheese, pasta with cream sauce, hearty stew, pizza, pork, veal, game. Best matched with roasted lamb or beef as well as Prime Steaks without sauce.
Chinese food: Roast duck/goose,grilled lamb, roasted suckling pigeon,Spicy shrimps and crabs,dried or smoked meats,braised fish.
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