Château Mouton Rothschild is located in Pauillac, Bordeaux. 40 percent of the grapes are used for the first wine, 40 percent for the second wine, and 20 percent (depending on the vintage) for non-classified wine in the company’s wider portfolio.

The wines of the château are remarkably seamless and complete, with impressive concentration and a powerful, rich bouquet of aromas.

Château Mouton Rothschild makes three wines: Château Mouton Rothschild, Petit Mouton (the second wine), and l'Aile d'Argent (white wine). The Château Mouton Rothschild 2016, 1986, 1982, 1959, 1945 scored 100; the 2018 and 2009 scored 99; and the 2019 scored 98+ by the Wine Advocate.

Robert Parker’s tating notes on the Château Mouton Rothschild 2016: “Composed of 83% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Merlot, 1% Cabernet Franc and 1% Petit Verdot, the 2016 Mouton Rothschild has an opaque garnet-purple color. WOW—the nose explodes from the glass with powerful blackcurrant cordial, black raspberries, blueberry pie and melted chocolate notions, plus suggestions of aniseed, camphor, lifted kirsch and the faintest waft of a subtle floral perfume in the background. Full-bodied, concentrated, bold and totally seductive in the mouth, it has very fine-grained, silt-like tannins, while jam-packed with tightly wound fruit layers, finishing in this wonderful array of mineral sparks. Magic.”

Château Mouton Rothschild is managed by the team of the technical director Jean-Emmanuel Danjoy assisted by consultant Eric Boissenot, and the director of the estate - Philippe Dhalluin. The owner isBaron Philippe de Rothschild S.A., headed by Philippe Sereys de Rothschild, Camille Sereys de Rothschild and Julien de Beaumarchais de Rothschild.

The estate's roots go back to 1853, when it was acquired at auction by Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild.

Baron Philippe de Rothschild, Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild's great-grandson, took over the property in 1922 at the age of 20. In 1924, in order to establish and emphasise the high quality of the wine, he introduced estate-bottling. Château Mouton Rothschild was one of the first estates to bottle its own wines.

In 1933 the holdings were extended by purchasing Château Mouton d'Armailhac, renamed Château d'Armailhac in 1989.

In 1945, the artist Philippe Jullian illustrated the Château Mouton Rothschild label with the letter "V", which symbolised the victory. Since then, each vintage label has depicted a modern artist's reproduction of an original artwork designed for the château.

Baron Philippe de Rothschild and his wife, Baroness Pauline de Rothschild, in 1962 founded the Museum of Wine in Art, which presents a collection of precious objects from all epochs related to the vine and wine.

The 1970s were generous in significant events: in 1970, Château Clerc Milon was bought; in 1973, Château Mouton Rothschild finally obtained the 1st Growth status, which was unjustly deprived in 1855; in 1979, Baron Philippe de Rothschild started a partnership with the American Robert Mondavi, a well-known wine grower from California's Napa Valley, which resulted in the establishment Opus One, the first Franco-Californian ultra-premium wine, planted, made, aged and blended in the Bordeaux fashion.

Baroness Philippine de Rothschild succeeded her father, Baron Philippe de Rothschild, in 1988.

In 1991 Baroness Philippine de Rothschild dedicated 7 hectares of vines for a high-quality dry white wine - Aile d'Argent. Then, in 1993, she introduced the second wine - Le Petit Mouton. In association with the Chilean wine grower, Concha y Toro, in 1997, Baroness Philippine de Rothschild instilled one more premium red wine -Almaviva.

In 2003 Domaine de Baronarques was founded by Baroness Philippine de Rothschild.

Besides, as in 2003, Château Mouton Rothschild celebrated its 150th anniversary, it was decided to devote the label to Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild: there was his photograph of the time, and in the background was depicted the part of the document of purchase.

In 2006 the Château Mouton Rothschild 1945 became the world's most expensive wine - a lot of twelve bottles of Mouton Rothschild 1945 went for $290,000, and a lot of six magnums of the same vintage for $345,000.

Baron Philippe de Rothschild S.A. also owns Château d’Armailhac (Pauillac, Bordeaux), Château Clerc Milon (Pauillac, Bordeaux), Domaine de Baronarques (Limoux, Languedoc-Roussillon), and co-owns Almaviva (Chile), Opus One (California), and Mouton Cadet (Bordeaux).

The vineyards of Château Mouton Rothschild are planted with Cabernet Sauvignon (81 percent), Merlot (15 percent), Cabernet Franc (3 percent), and Petit Verdot (1percent); the density is 10,000 vines/ha.

Harvesting is manual; the grapes are placed in open baskets that keep them intact.

In the cellar, the grapes are destemmed, sorted on the vibrating table and transferred into the fermentation vats by gravity. Fermentation is followed by malolactic fermentation, which refines the wine by reducing its acidity. Each parcel and each grape variety are vinified separately.

Maturation lasts approximately 20 months and takes place in barrels with 100 percent new oak. Fining is carried out with the help of egg whites. During the ageing, the barrels are transferred from the Grand Chai cellar to the second-year cellars, where the wine stays until the bottling.