2016 Pastourelle de Clerc Milon

The second wine of Clerc Milon, the 2016 Pastourelle de Clerc Milon checks in as 52% Cabernet Sauvignon and 48% Merlot brought up in once-used barrels. It’s a ripe, powerful second wine that has loads to love, with notes of currants, ripe black cherries, smoked earth, and violets. It’s a ripe, chewy, medium to full-bodied 2016 that has moderate tannins, plenty of texture, and while it’s already drinking nicely, it should easily keep for 10-15 years.

The 2016 Pastourelle de Clerc Milon has a tight, Cabernet-driven bouquet of black fruit infused with pencil shavings. It feels a little "distant" at the moment. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannin, a fine bead of acidity, good grip and a mineral-driven finish. This is a very well crafted second wine that perhaps ought to be better known.

Blackberry and blueberry aromas and flavors with light walnut and bark character. Full-bodied, juicy and savory with a focused, firm wall of tannins. Needs two or three years of bottle age. Second wine of Clerc Milon. Try in 2023.