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Tasting from 01.12.2023: Peter Moser
The '59 Mouton is without doubt one of the best red wines that the estate has ever produced - but certainly the best since 1945 and up to 1986. If you are lucky enough to encounter this almost sixty-five-year-old youngster in perfect form, then you imagine yourself in "7th Bordeaux heaven". Strong carmine garnet, good depth of colour, subtle orange reflections, brighter on the rim. Decanted for three hours, now the full Mouton DNA on the nose: fine blackcurrants, mint, candied orange zest, sweet tobacco, cedar wood, some nougat, very multi-faceted and suggestive. What the nose promises is surpassed on the palate, as the wine has a youthful opulence and juiciness, one would never think of such an age. Carried by full-bodied, juicy tannins, full of fine and integrated fruit; a wine with volume and length that leaves you in awe. Fine acidity evokes red berryish nuances in the finish, a perfectly grown-up and superlative wine with certain ageing potential, probably for decades. (12/2023, drink - 2060).
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