2025 Clerc Milon

Auslieferung bis zum Herbst 2028!
Delivery until Fall 2028!

(Pauillac; 62% Cabernet Sauvignon; 28% Merlot; 8% Cabernet Franc; 1% Carmenere; 1% Petit Verdot; pH 3.78; 13.1% alcohol; tasted at the UGCB press tasting at the Cité du Vin and then at Mouton-Rothschild with Jean-Emmanuel Danjoy). Charming, gracious and quite distinctive aromatically, with a nuttiness that I was not expecting and a saline note to the minerality too; there's more florality here than when tasted at the UGCB with much more than just the hint of peony when re-tasted at Mouton. There's also a reassuringly dark, Pauillac, berry and stone fruit signature. There's plenty of graphite too, a little scratch of the pencil sharpener, a hint of the cedar to come and a little liquorice root on the finale. Plump and deep, layered and very classical, but with a crystalline purity that has been rather more recently acquired. I love the beautiful pinch, grip and shape to the fantail finish. We're in 'best ever' territory here.
95-97/100 Colin Hay

The signature tenderness and gentle charm of Château Clerc Milon not only withstand the trials of a dry and heated year, but seem to emerge from it with an even greater purity. Tasting the 2025 vintage, I was reminded several times of the brilliance of 2022, though the fruit expression this year feels even more vivid. On entry, a cream-like texture softly supports the palate, followed by notes of iris and violet that unfold with airy grace, so light and agile that I almost feel lifted onto tiptoe. Then, a subtle fleur de sel salinity seems to arise from nowhere, quietly seeping into the wine and interweaving with tannins of a soy milk-like texture, rendering an already supple body as smooth and silky as savoury tofu. It captures with remarkable precision the image of Pauillac’s “enchantress,” truly impressive.
95-97/100 Alexandre Ma

Captures the muscular leanness of the vintage, coupled with great intensity and depth, waves of cloves, red liquorice, dark autumnal fruits, huge sapidity, coffee bean and cappuccino, clear richness with creamy weight through the mid palate. 3.78 pH. Harvest September 3 to 19. 55% new oak for ageing. Estate signature. 3.78ph.
95/100 Jane Anson