2011 Château Clerc Milon
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Streamlined and refined and full of sap and juice. I'm tempted to say this si a bit simpler than in previous years but certainly of fine quality and with nice length and good, round tannin.
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Jeannie Cho Lee MW
Jeff Leve, The Wine Cellar Insider
More reviews and scores
The 2011 Clerc-Milon is quite high-toned on the nose with black cherries, bilberry, black olive and light graphite scents. This gains more composure as it opens in the glass. The palate is medium-bodied with dense tannins, quite a bold and assertive Pauillac with good grip, maintaining balance and precision, persistent on the finish. Fine. Tasted blind at the annual 10-Year-On tasting.
Tasted blind. Relatively pale ruby. Perfumed. Then very sweet fruit with a minerally, saline finish. Quite bright and still quite youthful. Though it’s a bit of a fast fader. (JR)
Tasted blind. Mid crimson. Sweet and round. Then an edge of gaminess. Very dry end. (JR)
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