2020, Almaviva, MAIPO VALLEY, CHILEBaron Philippe de Rothschild & Via Concha y Toro MAIPO VALLEY CHILE ALMALVIVA a collaboration between Bordeaux 1st Growth Chateau Mouton Rothschild and Chilean winery Concha y Toro. It's an elegant Bordeaux style red blend from spectacular vineyards on the cool climate hillsides of Puente Alto, in the Maipo Valley. Fresh and deep nose, full of blueberries, minty cassis, mussels, cigars, dark spice and roasted sesame oak, which will need a year or two

classy Saint-Émilion

The 2022 Mouton Rothschild is deep garnet-purple in colour

Such an expressive nose

bitter grapefruit and lemon peel

Drinking Window: 2026 - 2037

underpinned by excellent cooling acidity and menthol freshness

This has a classic structure

but it will be worth waiting for

You'll find the density of Pomerol in abundance here

suave wine that retains all this estate's signature elegance but in a slightly deeper-pitched and broader-shouldered format than the profound 2020

A serious wine

A successful showing for the 150th vintage of the estate from director Marielle Cazeaux