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What is the story of Chateau Mouton?

When it comes to Mouton winery, it is colorful, and the first is the winery upgrade. The French wine world is very traditional and nothing has changed since the grading in 1855. When Philip proposed to upgrade, he first found 61 members of the ancient “Vineyard Grading Federation” in charge of grading and persuaded them to agree.

Secondly, through the French National Institute of Legal Protection of Origin. Finally, through the French Ministry of Agriculture. It wasn’t until he passed the bureaucratic hurdles that he realized that the biggest obstacle came from his cousin at Château Lafite. So Baron Philip started a price war, not lowering prices but raising them. Philip dared to fight like this because he was confident in his own wine, and the market really supported him.

The price war has a huge impact on Bordeaux, not only shaking the top wineries, but also affecting the price of the entire wine. By 1973, Château Lafite dropped its block on Mouton’s application, stating in a letter to Baron Philippe that Château Lafite “no longer objected to Mouton’s acceptance as a first-growth vineyard.” After two decades of Philippe The efforts of Mouton have realized the desire of Mouton to upgrade.

Mouton is also famous for its artistic wine labels. In 1924 Philip hired the Cubist artist Jean Carroux to design Mouton’s wine label. The wine label uses a large block of contrasting colors as the base, and uses a rough technique to draw the family emblem of the five arrows of the Baron Philip family, Mouton Chateau and the symbolic sheep of Mouton Chateau.

This wine label has been used until 1944. By the victory of World War II in 1945, Mouton brewed the wine of the century, and Philip decided to design a new wine label to celebrate. Among the many design proposals, artist Philippe Julian has a unique design. On the wine label, the big “V” symbolizing victory Victory stands in the center, and the asymmetric olive branch surrounds the V, symbolizing the arrival of peace, and the spreading grape branches and leaves.

It seems to blow with the wind, linking victory, peace and wine in a romantic way. It is precisely because of the perfect combination with the historical commemoration that this wine label has become a design classic. Since then, Mouton has hired an artist every year to create the label. Since the famous painter Georges Braque specially created a wine label for Mouton, which is the same size as the original when printed on the wine label, it has attracted the interest of world-renowned painters.

Surrealist master Salvador Dali, sculptor Henry Moore and other world-renowned painters have drawn pens to create creations for Mouton. The most famous wine label is Picasso’s “Bacchus Carnival” in 1973, which vividly shows the joy that wine brings to life.

Baroness Philippe’s daughter, Baroness Philippe, the current owner of Chateau Mouton, is one of the best examples of Bordeaux’s daughter-in-law’s inheritance. Originally, the girls of the Rothjord family were traditionally good wives and good mothers, but when she arrived, she was determined to take charge of the winery and company, and to expand her father’s career.

In fact, the picture of her as a baby sitting in high spirits next to a large Mouton bottle is a foreshadowing of the future. After the death of her father, Philip, she continued to expand the company, and managed the general wine, high-end wine, all the way to the top wine. At the same time, it continues to develop internationally.

In addition to continuing the Opus One created by his father in Napa, the United States, he also established Aimaviva as a joint venture with Concha y Toro, the largest wine merchant in Chile, specializing in producing high-end Chilean wines.

Feilipin’s personality is also different from her father’s, she has both entrepreneurial shrewdness and a woman’s flexibility and capacity. At that time, Baron Philippe had a fierce battle with Ellie, the cousin of Chateau Lafite, for the upgrade of Mouton. In 2013, she and Eric, the cousin of Chateau Lafite, competed fiercely in business.

Get along very well. On New Year’s Eve in 1999, Eric was invited to dinner at Chateau Mouton, and Philippe retrieved the 1899 Mouton wine from the cellar to entertain his cousin. The next day, Philip went to Chateau Lafite for dinner, and her cousin found 1799 Lafite from the depths of the cellar to serve her. One or two hundred years have passed, and although the wine is very, very weak, you can still feel the extraordinary elegance when you drink it.

Wine connects many things in life, the past and the future. No, if you want to taste the beauty of Mouton’s 1945 vintage when it was aged for a hundred years, you have to wait patiently for another 41 years.

Mouton, the wine that made the French government bow its head. Mouton estate has long been as famous as Lafite, and has always been considered a first-class by Bordeaux wine lovers, but it was unexpectedly lost in the 1855 rating. Pu took over the Mouton estate from his father.

Since then, Baron has begun the road of revival and rectification of Mouton. Baron poured all his love for wine into Mouton estate, and he also made great contributions to the development of the French wine industry. Baron’s suggestion in 1924 that both winemaking and bottling must take place in the winery is now one of the criteria by which all quality wineries are evaluated. Baron once made an oath to rectify the name of Mouton.

In the oath, he said: not the first, I am not willing to be the second, I am Mouton. This famous motto was inscribed on his family’s coat of arms to show his determination. After a 50-year struggle with the French government, in 1973 the French government finally conducted a 1855 official classification of Bordeaux , is also the only change that raised Mouton from the second to the first.

Since then, there have been five traditional wineries: Lafite, Latour, Margaux, Aubillon and Mouton. After the name of Mouton Manor was rectified, Baron changed this oath to be No. 2 in the past and No. 1 in 2013. Mouton has never changed. This sentence is printed on Mouton’s label. In 1987, Baron died, and many Bordeaux wineries flew their flags at half-staff for him to show their memory and respect for the Mouton King.