Pauillac · vintage 2012
Château Mouton Rothschild 2012
Ageing potential20+ years
Why this vintage
- The 2012 vintage in PauillacA late cycle closing with rain gave an uneven vintage: the cabernets hold up, the merlots remain taut.
- Ageing potential20+ years
The 2012 vintage in Pauillac
Vintage benchmark: 85/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: A late cycle closing with rain gave an uneven vintage: the cabernets hold up, the merlots remain taut.
Overall reading of the year’s season across Pauillac. An estate can depart from it sharply, in frost or hail years, where two neighbours did not make the same vintage. What this particular wine actually gave is on its technical sheet and in the scores above.
Blend of the 2012 vintage
- 90 % Cabernet-sauvignon
- 8 % Merlot
- 2 % Cabernet franc
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2012 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with cabernet sauvignon, merlot, cabernet franc, petit verdot, sémillon, sauvignon blanc — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 2012 sheet
- 44 yrsVine age
- 300,000 bottlesProduction
Winemaking
Vinification is carried out in an oak vat, one of the last in the Médoc, for 15 to 25 days. Mouton Rothschild practices unusual vinification by leaving the wine in vats after the end of fermentation. This gives additional body, requiring longer maturation in the bottle to reach full maturity. ageing takes place in oak barrels for 19 to 22 months.
Ageing
18 months in oak barrels (100% new, depending on vintages)
Terroir
Château Mouton Rothschild has 84 hectares of vines in Pauillac, planted with the varieties typical of the region: Cabernet Sauvignon (80%), Merlot (16%), Cabernet Franc (3%) and Petit Verdot (1%). This premier cru enjoys exceptional natural conditions, both in the quality of its soils and in their exposure and sunshine. The Château brings together all the conditions for an exceptional terroir: a rise of nearly 8 m of dense, poor Garonne gravels resting on a marl-limestone base shot through with traces of iron oxide.
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Texts and documents 2012
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Visuals
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Sheet checked on September 21, 2026. Technical data: the estate’s VinCod sheets. Critic scores: sources cited above, with their date. Vintage benchmarks and character: Compagnie Médocaine’s own editorial read. Soils and relief, where shown: the Compagnie Médocaine’s parcel survey and the Mapbox/IGN terrain model.