Château Clerc Milon Rothschild, 5ème Cru Classé, Pauillac, 2023

Name: Château Clerc Milon Rothschild, 5ème Cru Classé, Pauillac
Brand: Château Clerc Milon
Price: 330 GBP

Available Vintages

all 2007 2008 2010 2012 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2022 2023 2024

justerini & brooks tasting note

Jean-Emmanuel Danjoy, the supremely talented Technical Director responsible for Baron Philippe de Rothschild's three Bordeaux chateaux has crafted an exquisite range of wines, which marry generous, textural fruit with gloriously precise aromatics and velvety tannins. The 2023 Clerc Milon, the third vintage made in the new winery includes 17% press wines. Splendid aromatics with suggestions of coal dust, dark cherry and sweet earth mingling with aromas of graphite, flowers and tobacco leaf. Complex and composed; this is a grown up, refined Clerc packed with sweet mulberry fruit and ferrous notes. There's a real generosity to the fruit, yet it remains taut, compact and focussed with complex, powdery tannins providing touches of bitter chocolate, griotte and salts on the finish. 72% Cabernet Sauvignon, 19% Merlot, 6.5% Cabernet Franc, 1.5% Carmenère and 1% Petit Verdot.

critic reviews

96/100Jane Anson,Inside Bordeaux

Pauillac was close to normal rainfall, with less mildew than other parts of the region, helping to usher in the excellent crop of wines that you will find in the appellation in 2023. This joins the best of them with its superb quality, and a real sense of excitement and drive. Expect vivacity and tension in the blue and black fruits, with liqourice root, squid ink, salted cracker, white pepper spice and freshly cut herbs. September 7 to 29 for harvest, 55% new oak barrels for ageing. Carmanère dating from 1947 is in this 1st wine, with the massal selection descendents in Pastourelle. Caroline Artaud director.

DRINKING WINDOW 2030 - 2046

date of review 05/2024

92-94/100Neal Martin,Vinous

The 2023 Clerc Milon was picked from September 7 to 29 and is matured in 55% new oak. It has much more fruit concentration on the nose than the Pastorelle—quite precocious, with blackberry and cassis fruit. It's floral and more flamboyant than the d'Armailhac. The palate is very well balanced with a slightly creamy texture and a lovely mouthfeel. Its concentration is neatly counterbalanced by the acidity, and it feels very harmonious and long on the finish. Superb. If Mouton-Rothschild is beyond your budget—yes, I am familiar with that feeling—then this is where you should look.

DRINKING WINDOW 2028 - 2050

date of review 04/2024

92-94/100Lisa Perrotti-Brown,The Wine Independent

Deep garnet-purple in color, the 2023 Clerc Milon features flamboyant notes of blackcurrant pastilles, boysenberries, and fresh plums plus hints of licorice, lilacs, and underbrush. The medium-bodied palate is bright and breezy, with approachable fine-grained tannins and bags of freshness, finishing with a skip in its step. The blend is 72% Cabernet Sauvignon, 19% Merlot, 6.5% Cabernet Franc, 1.5% Carmenere, and 1% Petit Verdot, with pH 3.83. The alcohol is 13.5%.

DRINKING WINDOW 2028 - 2042

date of review 04/2024

92-94/100William Kelley,Robert Parker Wine Advocate

Revealing aromas of red berries, cherries and blackcurrants mingled with hints of pencil shavings and new oak, the 2023 Clerc Milon is medium to full-bodied, deep and fleshy, with a layered core of fruit, sweet velvety tannins and a seamless, succulent profile. It's a blend of 72% Cabernet Sauvignon, 19% Merlot, 6.5% Cabernet Franc and the balance Carmenere and Petit Verdot.

date of review 04/2024