Mouton Rothschild - 1970 (750ml) Bordeaux and 8% Cabernet Franc

and 8% Cabernet Franc

the 2005 Chateauneuf du Pape Les Origines is one of the vintage’s great successes

less generous offering than previous vintages of the nineties

and a touch of graphite

The wine seems to have reached full maturity

Mouton Rothschild - 1970 (750ml) Bordeaux and 8% Cabernet FrancI have had a remarkable number of opportunities to taste this wine. One of the most frustratingly irregular wines I have ever encountered, the 1970 Mouton can range from pure nectar, to a wine that is angular, austere, and frightfully hard and tannic. This bottle (one of the Reserve du Chateau bottlings that was mistakenly released by the estate and labeled with the letters R. C., rather than a number) was impossible to assess when decanted, given its