2020 Pastourelle de Clerc Milon
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The second wine of Château Clerc Milon is the 2020 Pastourelle De Clerc Milon, a ripe, up-front, straight-up delicious second wine offering cassis and darker cherry fruits, some chocolaty oak and minerality, medium body, ripe tannins, and a good finish.
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James Lawther MW, jancisrobinson.com
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The 2020 Pastourelle de Clerc Milon, which was the first vintage offered on the Place de Bordeaux, shows quite generous scents of raspberry and wild strawberry, incense and light crushed violet aromas. The palate is well balanced with pliant tannins, open-knit, quite fleshy as intended with hints of cumin and white pepper towards the finish. Enjoy over the next decade.
The 2020 Pastourelle de Clerc Milon is fabulous. Rich, ample and explosive, the 2020 packs a huge punch. A rush of inky dark red/purplish fruit, lavender, rose petal, spice and mocha builds as this sumptuous Pauillac shows off its immense charm. Merlot takes the leading role. This is a ridiculously gorgeous second wine. Best of all, this should be a tremendous value.
Gourmet black fruits, a touch of cocoa bean and smoked caramel, deepens through the mid palate and shows a more structured style than the early years of Pastourelle. The blend contains grapes from young Carmanère vines from massal selection of the estate's oldest vines. This is the first Pastourelle to be released En Primeur. Caroline Artaud began as technical director in July 2020, so halfway through this vintage, with Jean-Emmanuel Danjoy becoming head winemaker across at Mouton. Harvest September 9 to 28.
About the producer
Ch. Clerc Milon was purchased by Baron Philippe Rothschild in 1970. Today the 41-hectare vineyard, sandwiched between First Growths Ch. Lafite Rothschild and Ch. Mouton Rothschild in Pauillac, is one of Bordeaux’s most impressive Fifth Growths