Aile D’ Argent

Aile d’Argent is a Château Mouton Rothschild wine and was born thanks to a beautiful history. Indeed, wanting to reconnect with an old Medocan tradition, Philippine de Rothschild decided to plant on its soil, in the early 1980s, a few hectares of white grape vines. Initially, it was Filipino’s father, Baron Philippe de Rothschild, who loved to tell a tale he had imagined for his daughter, whose heroine was a magical teapot. When the war took place, the Baron was imprisoned, and it was during those years that he wrote this tale, which he called Aile d’Argent la Magique.

Aile d'Argent, the flagship of the property's Dry White Bordeaux, comes from a 9-hectare vineyard with sandy-gravelly soils. The vines, with an average age of 14 years, benefit from an ideal terroir for the expression of white grape varieties, giving them minerality and freshness. This specific plot, dedicated to the production of white, represents a small part of the vast Mouton Rothschild estate.

The wine is medium-yellow in color with a greenish hue. The nose is pungent with catty notes and blackcurrant-leaf aromas. The palate is dry and initially combines pungent fruit with spices and vanilla. Wet stone minerality and plenty of lingering passion-fruit. Pungent blackcurrant-leaf on the finish is overlaid by gunpowder notes and slight saline touches.