Château Clerc Milon

Pastourelle de Clerc Milon, 2020

Name: Pastourelle de Clerc Milon
Brand: Château Clerc Milon
Price: 173.14 GBP

91/100

Inside Bordeaux

88-90/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

89/100

The Wine Independent

88/100

Vinous

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all 2012 2020 2021 2022 2023

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2020
6x75cl
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£173.14

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Critic Reviews

89/100

Lisa Perrotti-Brown,

The Wine Independent

The 2020 Pastourelle de Clerc Milon is a blend of 51% Merlot, 40% Cabernet Sauvignon, 8% Cabernet Franc, and 1% Carmenere. Deep garnet-purple in color, it is a little broody to begin, revealing notes of boysenberries, mulberries, and stewed plums, plus touches of dried herbs and lavender. The medium-bodied palate is lively and delicately played, delivering just enough fruit and an herbal lift on the finish.

drinking window 2023 - 2032

date of review 03/2023

91/100

Jane Anson,

Inside Bordeaux

Gourmet black fruits, a touch of cocoa bean and smoked caramel, deepens through the mid palate and shows a more structured style than the early years of Pastourelle. The blend contains grapes from young Carmanère vines from massal selection of the estate's oldest vines. This is the first Pastourelle to be released En Primeur. Caroline Artaud began as technical director in July 2020, so halfway through this vintage, with Jean-Emmanuel Danjoy becoming head winemaker across at Mouton. Harvest September 9 to 28.

drinking window 2026 - 2040

date of review 02/2023

88/100

Neal Martin,

Vinous

The 2020 Pastorelle de Clerc Milon, which was the first vintage offered on the Place de Bordeaux, shows quite generous scents of raspberry and wild strawberry, incense and light crushed violet aromas. The palate is well balanced with pliant tannins, open-knit, quite fleshy as intended with hints of cumin and white pepper towards the finish. Enjoy over the next decade.

drinking window 2024 - 2032

date of review 02/2023

88-90/100

Lisa Perrotti-Brown,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

Medium to deep garnet-purple in color, the 2020 Pastourelle de Clerc Milon rolls effortlessly out of the glass with notes of kirsch, stewed black cherries and redcurrant jelly, giving way to notes of plum preserves and potpourri. The medium-bodied palate is soft, juicy and refreshingso expressive and delicious right nowfinishing lively and red-berry laced. The blend this year is 51% Merlot, 40% Cabernet Sauvignon, 8% Cabernet Franc and 1% Carmenere.

drinking window 2023 - 2034

date of review 05/2021

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This product may contain sulphites. Full allergen information is available upon request, please call our Customer Relations Team on +44 (0)20 7484 6430.