2001 Duhart-Milon

95 POINTS

Bob Campbell MW - The Real Review

Dense and complex Bordeaux. Big wine with savoury forest floor and cedarwood flavours. Strong tannins demand food or cellaring. Nice supple texture. Classic left bank Bord. Cigar box, gamy, savoury meaty

92 POINTS

Neal Martin - Vinous

The 2001 Duhart-Milon has a fresh, quite perfumed and floral bouquet of vibrant red and black fruit mixed with mint and pressed iris. There’s lovely focus here, and it’s less sauvage than the 2000. The palate is medium-bodied, cohesive and focused, with supple tannins and fine acidity. This gently builds toward a lightly spiced, finely proportioned finish of great class and sophistication. Excellent.

Robert Parker - Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The Rothschilds are making enormous investments in this estate, so I’m expecting a breakthrough effort to emerge (maybe the 2003 qualifies). The deep ruby-colored 2001 exhibits a moderately intense, noble bouquet of graphite, plums, and currants. Elegant (much in the style of Lafite) with medium body, sweet tannin, and a lively finish, it will be at its finest between 2007-2017.

Robert Parker - Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2001 Duhart Milon is a blend of 86.7% Cabernet Sauvignon and 13.3% Merlot representing 54% of the crop. It exhibits excellent, sweet, juicy black currant and cherry fruit intermixed with a hint of herbs, earth, and new saddle leather. This wine is medium-bodied and moderately tannic, with a vivacious, vibrant personality. It is not yet complex, but that should change with several years of aging.

Robert Parker - Robert Parker Wine Advocate

Dominated by Cabernet Sauvignon (86.7% and the rest Merlot), this spicy cassis-scented offering reveals notes of lead pencil shavings intermixed with currants, minerals, and vanilla. Medium-bodied and stylish, with firm tannin in the finish, patience will be essential. Anticipated maturity: 2008-2018.

Stephen Tanzer - Vinous

Dark red. Currant, tobacco leaf and tarry oak on the nose. Pliant and open, with fat, sweet currant and tobacco flavors. Shows more volume than the Carruades de Lafite I tasted alongside it, but less clarity and thrust.

Stephen Tanzer - Vinous

Good medium ruby. Musky aromas of blackcurrant, bitter chocolate and mocha. Sweet and supple in the mouth, with good volume and a rather easy structure. A somewhat chunky style of wine but with sound acids and good persistence. Interestingly, this wine features virtually the same blend of cabernet and merlot as Lafite-Rothschild, but could hardly be more different in structure and style.

Jancis Robinson

Aromatic and some very silky texture – obviously top-quality barrels. Well worked. Very suave. Good balance. Should give lots of pleasure. More sophisticated than the chunkier Carruades. Someone is working very hard on Duhart Milon. Score: 17/NaN