Chateau Mouton Rothschild 2002

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Vintage
2002

Size
750ML

Features
Collectible

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Winemaker Notes

A lovely, clear and glittering ruby red of remarkable intensity, the wine has a nose that opens on generous animal notes then goes on to develop fruit aromas of blackberry and blackcurrant, combining elegant oak with a touch of minerality.

The attack is dense and rich, on still-firm, refined and very well-rounded tannins. The mid-palate reveals a powerful structure and beautiful balance between fruit and oak, displaying perfect harmony between notes of toast, mocha, blackcurrant and cherry liqueur, and leading into a long and stylish finish.

Blend: 77% Cabernet Sauvignon, 12% Merlot, 10% Cabernet Franc, 1% Petit Verdot

About the Label Artwork

Born in 1933 at Dniepropetrovsk, in what is now Ukraine, Ilya Kabakov is one of the leading figures of contemporary Russian art. He has taken American citizenship.

Trained at Moscow Art School and the V.I. Surikov Institute, he made a name for himself in the late 1950s as a graphic artist and book illustrator. But, in counterpoint to this career, pursued openly, he soon began to explore avenues considered by the Soviet authorities at the time to be too innovative, from abstraction to conceptual art. He thus became a prominent personality of underground Russian culture alongside the poets and film directors of the "conceptualist circle". From the 1980s his installations, taking as their target daily life in the USSR and a social realism he had always rejected, gradually brought him to the attention of a worldwide audience. Rather like Wagner rethinking opera as a "total art work", Kabakov developed the idea of the "total installation": objects, paintings, lighting, texts and music transport spectators into a radically different world which nevertheless refers them to a precise historical reality - or his own fantasies.

Ilya Kabakov has won many international prizes for his work, in which his wife Emilia now also collaborates; it is exhibited in leading museums in the United States, France, Germany and Spain. In 2004, a major exhibition was devoted to him at St Petersburg's Hermitage Museum.

For the label of Mouton Rothschild 2002, Kabakov expresses both his mastery of graphic art and his predilection for multidimensional space in a striking use of perspective. He has entitled his drawing "OKHO", meaning window in Russian. Behind the "pane" of the bottle, the artist shows us another world: whirling to infinity, myriads of wings trace its outlines, at the same time bearing us off joyfully towards the realm of dreams and bliss, in a transparent allegory of the magic of a great wine.


Professional Ratings

  • 91
    Tasted blind as a vintage comparison at the Valandraud vertical, the 2002 Mouton-Rothschild is a wine that burned brightly in its youth, though recent encounters suggest that maybe it is beginning to flag as it enters what you might call middle age. Here, it has a conservative bouquet with blackberry, cedar, warm bricks and melted tar aromas - an unfussy, uncomplicated, quite serious Pauillac bouquet. The palate is well balanced with crisp acidity. It feels lively on the entry with fine tannin, a Mouton that is nimble on its feet with a gentle grip towards the finish, which offers a satisfying aftertaste of spice and clove. It does not mirror some of the outstanding bottles I consumed within the first decade of its life, and peering into this First Growth, it is difficult to see whether it will repay those who cellar it longer. Tasted December 2016.
  • 91
    Complex aromas of tobacco, cedar, berry and currants. Full-bodied, with a solid core of fruit and ripe tannins. Not as good as a barrel sample tasted earlier, but still outstanding for the vintage. Best after 2009.
  • 91
    This shows cigar box, cedar, cassis, blackberries and some earth on the nose. It's full-bodied with dense fruit, soft tannins and a long and intense finish. Not bad for 2002. Enjoyable now but with lots of bottle age to come.

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