1989 Château Clerc Milon
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The 1989 Clerc-Milon is a vintage that I have not tasted for 15 years. It offers more fruit than the 1989 d’Armailhac, displaying notes of black currant, melted tar and graphite, and just a little herbaceousness creeping in with aeration. The palate is medium-bodied with rounded, dusky black fruit laced with Chinese tea, bay leaf and a touch of licorice. There is a richness emanating from the hot summer, and a slight lack of delineation toward the finish, but it also plenty of muscle and presence and an appealing hickory aftertaste. (NM)
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The 1989 Clerc-Milon is a wonderfully hedonistic wine. Deep ruby, with an intense, roasted, smoky bouquet of plums and currants, this full-bodied wine is packed with fruit, is chewy and opulent as well as soft and alcoholic. This sensually styled wine should be at its best between 1993 and 2010.
Very ripe and intense, delivering a leather and jam undertone and aromas of raisiny grape. Full-bodied, with soft and round tannins that have a cashmere texture. Flavors are of dried fruits, but also forest floor, leaves and autumnal things in general. A little meaty, but sweet fruit comes through. Needs drinking.'89/'99 Bordeaux blind retrospective (2009). Drink now. 8,700 cases made. -James Suckling, Wine Spectator 2010
About the producer
Ch. Clerc Milon was purchased by Baron Philippe Rothschild in 1970. Today the 41-hectare vineyard, sandwiched between First Growths Ch. Lafite Rothschild and Ch. Mouton Rothschild in Pauillac, is one of Bordeaux’s most impressive Fifth Growths