Château Mouton Rothschild
The Estate
The only estate ever to be reclassified in the 1855 hierarchy — elevated from Second to First Growth in 1973 after decades of campaigning by Baron Philippe de Rothschild — Château Mouton Rothschild is as much a cultural institution as a wine estate.
Its labels, which since 1945 have featured commissioned artworks by figures including Picasso, Warhol, Hirst, Chagall, and Bacon, are collected as seriously as the wine itself. The Grand Vin is a Cabernet Sauvignon-dominant blend from the deep gravel soils of Pauillac, producing wines of flamboyant richness, cedary complexity, and remarkable age-worthiness.
The estate also houses an extraordinary museum of art relating to wine — one of the finest in the world — open to visitors who make the pilgrimage to this storied Médoc hill.