1989 Château Clerc Milon

Community Tasting Notes (220) Avg Score: 91.7 points

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  4/12/2024 - tomandlu wrote: 90 Points

  Decanted about 2 hours before starting to drink and consumed over about an additional 3 hours. The cork was saturated to the top and fell into the bottle when I tried to remove it but was perfectly intact. Bottle fill was bottom of the neck with no sign of seepage.
  
  Virtually opaque bloody garnet color with only a hint of fading right at the rim. Upon decanting there was a soaring, complex nose of tobacco, cedar, ripe black currants and plums, some Asian five-spice, and an earthiness that I always associate with Bordeaux. The nose staid constant for about 3 hours and then faded a bit.
  
  The palate was nearly as complex as the nose with soft tannins and ample fruit providing a lovely, balanced, elegant, even aristocratic, mouth-filling experience. The palate impression started to dry out at about the 2-hour market but remained balanced and pleasant. The finish was deep and fruity and remained that way throughout the evening without ever drying, just getting less complex.
  
  All in all this was everything I hoped for in this wine. It was a simply classic, complex, Pauillac at the peak or slightly past optimal drinking. I would love to have served this to someone unexperienced with classic older Bordeaux to show them what proper aging can do. Purchased within two years of release and stored in my cellar since.

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  1/15/2024 - Sperls Likes this wine: 96 Points

  This bottle was drinking really well and was everything you hope for when aging and drinking older Bordeaux (having been bought in 1993 for $19.99 and cellared since then). Dark purple with brick around the rim, dark fruits with some leather and tar, voluptuous nose, medium acidity, medium body, soft tannins, medium finish. Great with basque roast pork at chuleta at Txikito in NYC.

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  6/23/2023 - paulst Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Rather rich with nice fruit; elegant; smooth long finish.

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  4/26/2023 - rexmerlot wrote: 91 Points

  Purple in colour. Notes of Black fruit and some leather notes. Med acidity, med body, fine soft tannins, and med finish. Past its prime, but still drinking well. Interesting all the notes about cork. I noted some leakage as well, but wine was still in tact.

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  4/15/2023 - CarpeDiem! Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Most typical Pauillac. Earthy, mineral nose. Medium bodied, this very “masculine”, well structured left bank claret finds a good balance between sweet, mineral and herbal elements. Ink, graphite, licorice, tea and some residual tannins in the background. Still young and should keep the level for another 5 years.

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