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Wine: Clerc Milon -
Vintage:
2000
Region: France - Bordeaux - Pauillac
Varietal: Bordeaux Blend (Red)
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| thick dark ruby red, almost opaque, pink edge tints. Thick, packed, rich black fruit, plums, touch of smoke, touch of alcohol and acid in the finish. But really quite closed even after 2 hours. Cannot predict its future easily. For now 86. |
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| was in a bar with Arv in Greenwich Village about a year ago after a BWE event. We were drinking beers, and Arv started to tell me about the glories of Chateau Clerc Milon: That it was as solid a Pauillac out there as you could find for the money. I was a little surprised that he would pick Clerc Milon as a shining example of Pauillac. I'm a big Pauillac man, and I don't have to drink Mouton and Latour to enjoy it. But Clerc Milon has never been at the top of my list of "definitive" Pauillacs. I mean, that '85 Clerc Milon we drank in Dennis and Nic's room in New York City was very nice, but hardly some great eye-popper. And the 2000 Clerc Milon wasn't any great shakes tonight, either. It displays a pure, dark ruby red. We had to really coax some excitement out of this wine. There's just not a lot of pizzaz here. This is the closest thing I've found to an uninspiring 1999 from the 2000 vintage. This is the most 1999-like of the 2000s I've had thus far. Has this estate ever produced a "great" wine? I mean, what is its 1990 Beausejour Duffau? Is there an equivalent for Clerc Milon? The answer, of course, is "no". And it certainly is not there in the 2000. Oh, sure, it has some cassis, and black currant, and some pleasant Pauillac notes. It must have been downright impossible to produce a mediocre wine in the fall of 2000. But, we expect more from our 2000s: This is a good, but uneventful, unexciting, uninspiring wine. |
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