2019 CHÂTEAU CLERC MILON 5ème Cru Classé Pauillac, Lea & Sandeman

CHÂTEAU CLERC MILON

2023 5ème Cru Classé Pauillac

Grapes Carmenère, Petit Verdot, Cab Franc, Cab Sauv, Merlot
Colour Red
Origin France, Bordeaux
Sub-district Haut Médoc
Village Pauillac
Classification 5ème Cru Classé
ABV 13.4%

72 Cabernet Sauvignon, 19 Merlot, 6.5 Cabernet Franc, 1.5 Carmenère, 1 Petit Verdot: 55% new oak for 18 months: 13.5% alc: 3.83 pH: Harvested 7 – 29 September This is another wine in the ‘Mouton family that has driven the Cabernet Sauvignon percentage up in its blend.  It is as high as the 2019 and 1986, making these the purest of Cabernets, and they certainly do not lift their foot off the Pauillac pedal!  Every element is in its place, and the focussed blackcurrant fruit and gloriously spicy tannins bookend a marvellously opulent mid-palate.  The clarity of the fruit is glorious, and the results are quite beautiful. Rating: 18.5+ Matthew Jukes www.matthewjukes.com (May 2024)


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Pauillac was close to normal rainfall, with less mildew than other parts of the region, helping to usher in the excellent crop of wines that you will find in the appellation in 2023. This joins the best of them with its superb quality, and a real sense of excitement and drive. Expect vivacity and tension in the blue and black fruits, with liqourice root, squid ink, salted cracker, white pepper spice and freshly cut herbs. September 7 to 29 for harvest, 55% new oak barrels for ageing. Carmanère dating from 1947 is in this 1st wine, with the massal selection descendents in Pastourelle. Caroline Artaud director. Drinking range: 2030 - 2046 Rating: 96 Jane Anson, www.janeanson.com (May 2024)

The 2023 Clerc Milon is a packed with blackberry, grilled herbs, leather, incense, gravel and cloves. A dark, brooding powerhouse, the 2023 will need a few years to settle down. Today, its imposing, tannic personality is very much front and center. Drinking range: 2028 - 2043 Rating: 91-93 Antonio Galloni, www.vinous.com (May 2024)

The blend is 72% Cabernet Sauvignon, with just 19% Merlot, 6.5% Cabernet Franc, 1.5% Carmenère and 1% Petit Verdot. A nose of pressed cherry fruits swirled with tobacco, leather and toast, in brief a very savoury and classical Cabernet-dominant left-bank poise to the aromatics. A charming and rather plump palate follows, supple and broad, forming a welcome blanket of fruit over the grip of the wine, formed from tightly knit and powdery tannins. The dark cherry and currant fruit coats these substantial tannins rather well, and it feels fresh with bright acidity. There is a nice sense of cohesion here, even though it leads to a firmly gripped and acid-fresh finish. This has a real sense of panache. Well done. Tasted twice. The alcohol is 13.54% on analysis. Rating: 92-94 Chris Kissack, www.thewinedoctor.com (Apr 2024)

Château Clerc Milon

Pauillac Cinquième cru 1855 The tiny village of Milon is in the far north of the Pauillac commune and lends its name to Château Duhart-Milon. Château Clerc Milon is a kilometre away to the east, the other side of Château Lafite-Rothschild in the village of Mousset but, for some reason, also adopted the name of Milon. The Clerc comes from Jean-Baptiste Clerc who owned the château at the time of the 1855 classification when it was accorded 5th Growth status - a status that the Rothschilds (of Mouton, who bought the run-down estate in 1970) have striven hard to exceed. As far as neighbours go, they don't come more impressive than Clerc Milon's - the vineyards adjoin both those of Château Lafite-Rothschild and Château Mouton Rothschild. That's quite a lot to compete with! The vineyards are planted to around 45% Cabernet Sauvignon, a proportion that has slowly been reduced over the years in favour of Merlot (40%). There is just over 10% Cabernet Franc, a little Petit Verdot and, very unusually for Bordeaux these days, a small amount of Carmenere. The label shows an ornate pair of jewelled dancing clowns that are part of the art collection at Mouton Rothschild.

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