Mouton Rothschild - 2005 (750ml) 1955 this wine has fabulous intensity

this wine has fabulous intensity

but not over the top

Best from 2008 through 2012

Wine Spectator - 94 points

the last five times I have tasted the 1986 Ducru-Beaucaillou

Mouton Rothschild - 2005 (750ml) 1955 this wine has fabulous intensityThe 2005 Chteau Mouton Rothschild is a deeply impressive First Growth. It has been blessed with a sensational nose that comes racing out of the blocks with audacious scents of black fruit, cedar, smoke and pencil box (Philippe Dhalluin mentioned that the signature smokiness fireside hearth was tangible in around 80% of the vats during levage). There is a sense of bravura here, of aristocracy. The palate is medium bodied with sumptuous black fruit,