2019 Château Duhart-Milon

Community Tasting Notes (26) Avg Score: 92.9 points

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  10/31/2023 - kostaslonis Likes this wine:

  2019 Bordeaux Tasting, MW tasting (Vintner's Hall, London): 70% CS 30% Mer, 13.50%
  Beauty, fragrant, nice fruit flavors, floral notes, elegant oak use, thin minty layer.
  Palate juicy, nice tannins, smoky, fine tannins, nice fruit, full body, flesh, long finish. Brilliant

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  9/21/2023 - Motz wrote: 94 Points

  Drank over two days, alongside the same vintage d'Armailhac and Pontet-Canet.
  
  In a warm and inviting style. Leaning modern, in terms of fruitiness and wait, although backed by unmistakable sense of place, and bracing structure.
  
  The elegant bouquet delivers blackcurrant, including crème de cassis, mint, summer potpourri, worn leather, cut and lit tobacco, and layered minerality. Prettier than the d'Armailhac.
  
  Concentrated, generous, and well balanced. The expansive middle touches every part of the palate. Gripping back, long, supple finish. If only one of the three wines were to be available on a cold night, by a fireplace, this would likely be the choice.
  
  This packs the substance and structure to age gracefully for a long while, no less than a decade. It may through moderate sediment by that time. Interesting, captivating even.

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  7/1/2023 - Motz wrote: 93 Points

  Layered bouquet of violets, purple and black berries, tobacco, worn leather, savory herbs, graphite, and gravel. Oak, while noticeable, gives every indication that it will integrate. In sum, appealing and vivacious.
  
  Intense attack, broad and gripping middle, rustic back, substantive finish. Nothing out of place. This has begun to shut down. Medium plus acid and bracing tannins prominent.
  
  Time will serve this well, with improvement likely. Recommend holding bottles for several years. All elements point to no less than a two decade maturation, from vintage. Markedly better quality than the technically excellent but otherwise vapid Clerc Milon. 93-94.

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  6/18/2023 - Firemanbrandon wrote: 90 Points

  PNP at anniversary dinner. Initially smelled like the cork, lacking fruit. That cork or wood scent faded after about 30 minutes. Red and blue fruits along with a floral element emerged on the nose which became more pleasant with air and time. The palate on the other hand was bitter and green and somewhat harsh. it may be that this wine is shut down at the moment. After a few hours more fruit started peeking out, but the tannins remained distractingly bitter. The wine is medium bodied and besides the bitter backbone feels polished in the mouth. The finish was somewhat clipped.You could feel the dry bitter tannin but nothing else held on through the finish. I will let my other bottles sleep for quite some time and revisit. Maybe new oak is overwhelming everything and just needs some age to calm down and integrate. I really hope it gets better!
  
  *** As the night progressed that bitter cork I sensed turned into bitter oak. I think this may just be in transition and need lots of time to integrate the new oak which may just be overshadowing the elegancy of the wine. The 2019 Château d'Armailhac I recently tasted was superior at this stage in life. A much bigger, balanced, and more complete wine, but elegant it was not.

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  6/4/2023 - edub7 wrote: 95 Points

  Blue fruits, lots of intriguing blue fruits, classic pencil lead and graphite from the appellation. Very elegant and poised. A beautiful code if you can tap into it. This wine has fine balance and plenty of substance to age, yet, i am digging the finesse and tasty fruit even today. Not a blockbuster, nor trying to be, but a classic winner here.
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