2008 Château Clerc Milon, Pauillac, Bordeaux
- Red
- Dry
- Full Bodied
- Cabernet Sauvignon (42%),Merlot (40%),Cabernet Franc (16%),Petit Verdot (2%)
Ready - mature
- Robert Parker
- 90/100
- 17/20
- Robert Parker
- 90/100
Product: 20081008212
Description
Belonging to the Mouton stable, and with a prestigious location right next to both Mouton and Lafite, Ch. Clerc Milon is a fresher, lighter style of 2008 which has a delicious hint of creamy raspberry fruit to the more classic blackcurrant backbone. Fine with exceptionally fine tannins this has a lovely rounded finish with more than a hint of the savoury minerality of the vintage.
Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2008
Maturity Ready - mature
Grape List Cabernet Sauvignon (42%),Merlot (40%),Cabernet Franc (16%),Petit Verdot (2%)
Body Full Bodied
Producer Château Clerc Milon
Critics reviews
Robert Parker 90/100
The dense ruby/purple-tinged 2008 Clerc Milon offers attractive aromas of toast, black currants and forest floor. Deep, full-bodied, rich, elegant and moderately tannic, this impressively endowed 2008 is an outstanding success from the Mouton Rothschild staff (who are responsible for making this wine). It will benefit from 2-3 years of bottle age and should drink well for 15 years.Robert M. Parker, Jr. - 02/05/2011
17/20
Black-red, richly concentrated blackcurrants nose, quite smoky and spicy, very good structure and firmness, firm, even a little raw still but very good, quite tight expression that will become more floral and broad.
Robert Parker 90/100
The dense ruby/purple-tinged 2008 Clerc Milon offers attractive aromas of toast, black currants and forest floor. Deep, full-bodied, rich, elegant and moderately tannic, this impressively endowed 2008 is an outstanding success from the Mouton Rothschild staff (who are responsible for making this wine). It will benefit from 2-3 years of bottle age and should drink well for 15 years. robert_parker- Wine Advocate- May 2011 Aromas of sweet tobacco interwoven with cedar, black currants, and subtle smoky menthol emerge from the medium-bodied 2008 Clerc Milon. While slightly austere, it exhibits sweet black currant fruit along with hints of mocha and underbrush. Its substantial tannins are neither aggressive nor unripe, and the wine reveals the beautiful purity and seamlessness that are the hallmarks of so many 2008s. robert_parker- Wine Advocate - Apr 09
About this wine
Cabernet Sauvignon
The most famous red wine grape in the world and one of the most widely planted.
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Château Clerc Milon
Classified as a Fifth Growth in 1855, Château Clerc Milon is one of a trinity of Pauillac classified growths owned by the Baron Philippe de Rothschild family. Baron Philippe began renovation and restoration here in 1970 – work that was later championed by his daughter Baroness Philippine until her death in 2014.
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