Clerc Milon 2010

Pauillac, Fifth Growth

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Tasting Notes
Gorgeous currants and spices with licorice on the nose. Full body, with super integrated tannins and a long, long finish. The texture and beautiful fruit just wants you to drink this. Give it time but hard to wait. Try in 2016. Score: 94 James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com Maturity: 2016+ 04 February 2013
One the finest Clerc Milons I have ever tasted, and showing better from bottle than from barrel, this blend of 50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 36% Merlot, 11% Cabernet Franc and the rest a tiny bit of Carmenere and Petit Verdot has a complex nose of cedar wood, red and black fruits, white chocolate and crème de cassis. A very powerful wine at 14.5% natural alcohol (quite high for a Medoc), this wine has impressive purity and texture, a full-bodied mouthfeel, relatively sweet tannin, but an already endearing complexity, length and richness that are hard to ignore. This is a superb effort and one of the wines that is usually reasonably priced among the classified growths. Score: 94 Robert Parker, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com 01 February 2013
The powerful 2010 is a blend of 50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 11% Cabernet Franc and the balance mostly Merlot except for dollops of Petit Verdot and Carmenere that achieved 14.5% natural alcohol – a record at Clerc Milon. An intense purple color is followed by notes of incense, creme de cassis and flowers and a broad, rich wine with superb purity, concentration and depth. This layered, expansive effort could turn out to be one of the finest this estate has ever made. Give it 3-5 years of cellaring and drink it over the following two decades. Score: 91 - 93 Robert Parker, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com 04 May 2011
Gentle and dry. Unassuming but delicately fragrant - dark fruit plus raspberries. Powder-fine dry tannins give little friction. Perhaps this one has been fined. Elegant, dry finish. Score: 17 Julia Harding MW, JancisRobinson.com Maturity: 2018-2030 10 April 2012
Fragrant wild red fruit nose, pencil and mocha. Very fresh, bursting with life and energy. Incredible amount of spice with a very impressive round and silky texture. A long dry finish. Score: 91 - 93 Albany Vintners, - 27 April 2011
A blend of 50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 36% Merlot, 11% Cabernet Franc, 2% Petit Verdot and 1% Camenere is a little reticent at first, but after 2 minutes of rigorous coaxing evolves a very pure nose of macerated black cherries, blueberry and cassis with very fine delineation. The palate is medium-bodied with a compact entry that seems to expand as it remain in the mouth. The tannins are a little more prominent than the d’Armailhac with a citrus-like freshness on the finish. It has a little more alcohol (14.5%) thanks to the Merlot compared to the others, but there it is what you might describe as a joyous Clerc-Milon. Drink 2015- Tasted April 2011. Score: 91 - 93 Neal Martin, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2015+ 15 April 2011
Ch Clerc Milon 2010 Pauillac 17 Drink 2022-2035 Tasted 17 Feb: Lighter on nose than Armailhac. Tea-leaves freshness - more attenuated than Armailhac. Very crude and raw. Very, very young! The last vat finished its malolactic only very recently apparently. Will settle down. Tasted 8 Apr: Mid purplish crimson. Serious dry tobacco/leather spectrum notes on the nose. And then ripe black fruits. Really quite sweet and opulent on the palate. Those Cabernets seem just a tiny bit struggling up the hill to full ripeness... Bone-dry finish. (Score: 17 20-33) Tasted blind 8 Apr: Mid crimson. Pale rim. Very ripe nose. Very thick, ripe and dramatic. Loose and a bit formless with a dry finish. There’s a little tart note in there which some people might find a bit much. Drying finish. Fades rather fast. But overall there is succulence. It is clear that a lot of work has gone into this. (Score: 17 18-30) Score: 17 Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com Maturity: 2022-2035 01 April 2011
Rich blackcurrant fruit with some dry herbs/coffee spice nose, very good middle fruit and a firm, elegant structure and class, a château on top form. Score: 18 Decanter, Decanter.com Maturity: 2018-2035 01 April 2011
Offers a more rounded feel, with cassis, black licorice and plum sauce carried by very supple but substantial tannins and terrific acidity. The long finish has a solid tarry edge. Tasted non-blind. Score: 93 - 96 James Molesworth, Wine Spectator 31 March 2011

Tasting Notes

Gorgeous currants and spices with licorice on the nose. Full body, with super integrated tannins and a long, long finish. The texture and beautiful fruit just wants you to drink this. Give it time but hard to wait. Try in 2016.

Score: 94

James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com Maturity: 2016+ 04 February 2013

One the finest Clerc Milons I have ever tasted, and showing better from bottle than from barrel, this blend of 50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 36% Merlot, 11% Cabernet Franc and the rest a tiny bit of Carmenere and Petit Verdot has a complex nose of cedar wood, red and black fruits, white chocolate and crème de cassis. A very powerful wine at 14.5% natural alcohol (quite high for a Medoc), this wine has impressive purity and texture, a full-bodied mouthfeel, relatively sweet tannin, but an already endearing complexity, length and richness that are hard to ignore. This is a superb effort and one of the wines that is usually reasonably priced among the classified growths.

Score: 94

Robert Parker, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com 01 February 2013

The powerful 2010 is a blend of 50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 11% Cabernet Franc and the balance mostly Merlot except for dollops of Petit Verdot and Carmenere that achieved 14.5% natural alcohol – a record at Clerc Milon. An intense purple color is followed by notes of incense, creme de cassis and flowers and a broad, rich wine with superb purity, concentration and depth. This layered, expansive effort could turn out to be one of the finest this estate has ever made. Give it 3-5 years of cellaring and drink it over the following two decades.

Score: 91 - 93

Robert Parker, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com 04 May 2011

Gentle and dry. Unassuming but delicately fragrant - dark fruit plus raspberries. Powder-fine dry tannins give little friction. Perhaps this one has been fined. Elegant, dry finish.

Score: 17

Julia Harding MW, JancisRobinson.com Maturity: 2018-2030 10 April 2012

Fragrant wild red fruit nose, pencil and mocha. Very fresh, bursting with life and energy. Incredible amount of spice with a very impressive round and silky texture. A long dry finish.

Score: 91 - 93

Albany Vintners, - 27 April 2011

A blend of 50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 36% Merlot, 11% Cabernet Franc, 2% Petit Verdot and 1% Camenere is a little reticent at first, but after 2 minutes of rigorous coaxing evolves a very pure nose of macerated black cherries, blueberry and cassis with very fine delineation. The palate is medium-bodied with a compact entry that seems to expand as it remain in the mouth. The tannins are a little more prominent than the d’Armailhac with a citrus-like freshness on the finish. It has a little more alcohol (14.5%) thanks to the Merlot compared to the others, but there it is what you might describe as a joyous Clerc-Milon. Drink 2015- Tasted April 2011.

Score: 91 - 93

Neal Martin, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2015+ 15 April 2011

Ch Clerc Milon 2010 Pauillac 17 Drink 2022-2035 Tasted 17 Feb: Lighter on nose than Armailhac. Tea-leaves freshness - more attenuated than Armailhac. Very crude and raw. Very, very young! The last vat finished its malolactic only very recently apparently. Will settle down. Tasted 8 Apr: Mid purplish crimson. Serious dry tobacco/leather spectrum notes on the nose. And then ripe black fruits. Really quite sweet and opulent on the palate. Those Cabernets seem just a tiny bit struggling up the hill to full ripeness... Bone-dry finish. (Score: 17 20-33) Tasted blind 8 Apr: Mid crimson. Pale rim. Very ripe nose. Very thick, ripe and dramatic. Loose and a bit formless with a dry finish. There’s a little tart note in there which some people might find a bit much. Drying finish. Fades rather fast. But overall there is succulence. It is clear that a lot of work has gone into this. (Score: 17 18-30)

Score: 17

Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com Maturity: 2022-2035 01 April 2011

Rich blackcurrant fruit with some dry herbs/coffee spice nose, very good middle fruit and a firm, elegant structure and class, a château on top form.

Score: 18

Decanter, Decanter.com Maturity: 2018-2035 01 April 2011

Offers a more rounded feel, with cassis, black licorice and plum sauce carried by very supple but substantial tannins and terrific acidity. The long finish has a solid tarry edge. Tasted non-blind.

Score: 93 - 96

James Molesworth, Wine Spectator 31 March 2011

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