Real Data: Tracking Mouton and Opus One
This chart illustrates their scores for Château Mouton Rothschild from 1990 to 2022. Scores fluctuate in the 1990s and early 2000s, with dips in lesser vintages like 1992, 1997, and 2001, but an upward trend begins around 2004, with more consistent high scores thereafter. Recent vintages show remarkable performance, placing Mouton Rothschild among the top-performing Bordeaux First Growths in the modern era.
This chart shows the grape variety breakdown for Opus One from the first vintage in 1979 to the current 2022 release (excluding 2020 where no wine was made due to Napa’s wild fires). Each bar represents the percentage composition of different grapes used in that vintage.
Note the increasing use of Petit Verdot starting in ‘97 and the drastic drop of Cabernet Sauvignon in cool, rainy seasons like ‘11. This captures winemaking decisions and vintage variation in one snapshot.