WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 1000; outperforming the average for the sub-region in 1982 which is 920. The average score for Château Mouton Rothschild is 921, making this an above average effort for the producer.
When people talk about wines from Château Mouton Rothschild they use words like Fruit, Cassis, Full, Black, Rich, Ripe, Tannins, Powerful, Oak, Classic, Sweet, Tannin, Purple, Opulent, Fine. The 1982 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 1982 but no other wine from Château Mouton Rothschild: Brilliance, Fruity, Improvement, Decanter, Clean, Decant, Glycerin, Unreal, Youthfulness, Oxidation. The wine has significantly higher levels of alcohol than this producer normally outputs (13% vs 12.57%); it has broadly similar levels of alcohol for the region in 1982 (13% vs 12.83%). The wine has been ready to drink for 1 years (since 2015) and should be consumed within the next 34 years (by 2050). It normally takes wines from Château Mouton Rothschild around 12 years to be ready to start drinking, and 21 further years to decline.
It represents good value compared to Château Ausone 2010; but better value alternatives would be Château Lafite Rothschild 2008, Château Lafite Rothschild 2008, Château Pontet-Canet 2005, Les Forts de Latour 2005, Château Latour 1996.
MyWineMine has compared this wine to all others it has scored; this wine offers very low value for money when looking at the price per point of MyWineMine Score. This wine is in the bottom 10% of wines by value; you might very well be paying for the name, rather than the wine.
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Prices & Deals for Château Mouton Rothschild 1982
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2016-01-05 |
gbp |
75 |
| 2015-12-08 |
gbp |
960 |
| 2015-08-16 |
gbp |
1600 |