I almost picked Petit Mouton 2006 because it's at a great stage for drinking right now, but who am I kidding that Mouton 1945 wasn't one of my wines of the year? Of any year. Shared at Versailles with a room full of equally lucky wine lovers, this was a magical bottle that reminded everyone that certain wines stop time, and stand for something more important than pleasure. Crushed strawberries, smoked violets, cinnamon, saffron, truffle, bacon... unforgettable. Drinking Window 2019 - 2035.Decanter | 100 DECA consistent 100-point wine (only because my point scale stops at that number), the 1945 Mouton-Rothschild is truly one of the immortal wines of the century. This wine is easily identifiable because of its remarkably exotic, over-ripe, sweet nose of black fruits, coffee, tobacco, mocha, and Asian spices. It is an extraordinarily dense, opulent, and rich wine, with layers of creamy fruit, behaveing more like a 1947 Pomerol than a structured, powerful, and tannic 1945. The wine finishes with a 60+ second display of ripe fruit, extract, and sweet tannin. This remarkably youthful wine (only light amber at the edge) is mindboggling! Will it last another 50 years? Last tasted 8/97.Robert Parker | 100 RPThis bottle of 1945 Mouton-Rothschild is my fourth encounter and actually showed better than one poured three months earlier that came directly from the château. Ethereal as always on the nose, that distinctive menthol scent is present and correct, and this bottle is perhaps more elegant and almost Burgundian in style. The palate has heavenly balance, quite opulent and velvety, with morello cherry, raspberry preserve, orange pith and a delicate touch of cedar on the never-ending finish. Monumental. Tasted at Koala's 1945 dinner.Vinous Media | 100 VMWine doesn't get much better than this. From a legendary vintage, this was the best Mouton of the tasting. It started out very minty, but then brown sugar, chocolate, dried plum, tar and cedar notes kicked in to offer a remarkably balanced, complex Bordeaux that was both powerful and elegant. Still full of vitality, with the deep ruby and almost purple color of a much younger wine and enough tannins to last many more years. Try in 1995 to 2000.--Mouton-Rothschild vertical.Wine Spectator | 100 WS
