I can’t remember tasting a young Clerc as exciting as this since the 1980s. Fascinating aromas of blackberries and currant jam. Very deep. Tar too. Full and very dense. It just tickles the tip of your tongue. So much there. 50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 36% Merlot, 11% Cabernet Franc, 2% Petit Verdot, and 1% Carménère.
Points: 95-96
Rock-solid, with layers of baker's chocolate and espresso lining the steeped plum and blackberry fruit flavors while intense charcoal fills in on the hefty finish. Backward now, but showing excellent intensity and dark fruit, with a tug of singed iron on the finish.
94 POINTS
Roger Voss - Wine Enthusiast
Confirming its place in the firmament of Pauillac greats, Clerc Milon's 2010 has huge density, and is packed with dark tannins and blackberry flavor. It has a delicious freshness that cuts right through, lifting the concentration. With its tannins, this promises long-term aging.
94 POINTS
Roger Voss - Wine Enthusiast
93-95 A wine that seems complete. With the tannins integrated into the sweet berry fruits, laced with great acidity, it has structure, concentration and extreme freshness.
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.
93 POINTS
Gary Walsh - The Wine Front
Feels like quite a different beast to its sister wine d’Armailhac.
Big ripe wine. Opulent and warm with blackcurrant and ripe plum, mocha, subtle herbal, rose and cedar perfume. Ripe Turkish coffee tannin, fleshy and round (Merlot packed?), modern and slick, with a pretty long finish. Comes over as ‘New World’ Bordeaux, for want of a better description.
92 POINTS
Steven Spurrier - Decanter
A bouquet of fine intensity overlaid with elegant fragrance. Really superbly expressed, great density and purity of fruit. Firm in tannin and acidity, but long to taste. Sweetly-cored and long to finish, too. Fine, long term Pauillac.
A bouquet of fine intensity overlaid with elegant fragrance. Really superbly expressed, great density and purity of fruit. Firm in tannin and acidity, but long to taste. Sweetly-cored and long to finish, too. Fine, long term Pauillac.
Judges: Steven Spurrier, Stephen Brook, Michael Schuster