Pauillac · vintage 2011
Château Clerc Milon 2011
Ageing potential20+ years
Why this vintage
- 94/100 from Wine Enthusiastand 1 other score above 90/100.
- The 2011 vintage in PauillacA scorching spring followed by a wet August turned the seasons upside down: classic wines, shorter but true to type.
- Ageing potential20+ years
Critic scores
- Wine Enthusiast94
- Vinous90
The 2011 vintage in Pauillac
Vintage benchmark: 87/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: A scorching spring followed by a wet August turned the seasons upside down: classic wines, shorter but true to type.
Overall reading of the year’s season across Pauillac. An estate can depart from it sharply, in frost or hail years, where two neighbours did not make the same vintage. What this particular wine actually gave is on its technical sheet and in the scores above.
Tasting
The wine has a garnet red color, sustained and bright. The nose reveals finely roasted notes of spices and tobacco, combined with more intense aromas of red fruits, cherry pit, and a mineral touch. The palate is ample, precise, dominated by the brightness of delicious fruit and fine, tasty tannins which open with a touch of cocoa. The finish is long, warm and enhanced by saline sensations. A superb success for a particularly demanding vintage.
Blend of the 2011 vintage
- 54 % Cabernet-sauvignon
- 37 % Merlot
- 7 % Cabernet franc
- 1 % Carménère
- 1 % Petit verdot
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2011 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with cabernet sauvignon, merlot, cabernet franc, petit verdot, carménère — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 2011 sheet
- 13 % vol.Alcohol
- 52 yrsVine age
Winemaking
After manual sorting, the grape berries are transferred to the vats using mobile vats. The 40-vat gravity vat allows for reduced handling and pumping: their integrity being better ensured, the berries thus retain all their flavors.
Ageing
16 to 18 months and 40% in new oak barrels.
Terroir
Château Clerc-Milon is a 5ème cru classé of 1855 in the Pauillac appellation, which alone holds three premiers crus and many other crus classés. Made up of gravelly and sandy ridges, often ideally exposed, this terroir produces wines that combine power and structure with elegance and finesse. Château Clerc-Milon, whose vines lie immediately next to those of the premiers crus Mouton and Lafite, belongs to Mouton-Rothschild, which applies the same rigour in viticulture and winemaking. The plantings at Château Clerc-Milon are 48% Cabernet Sauvignon, 34% Merlot, 14% Cabernet Franc, 3% Petit Verdot and 1% Carménère.
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Texts and documents 2011
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Visuals
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Sheet checked on September 21, 2026. Technical data: the estate’s VinCod sheets. Critic scores: sources cited above, with their date. Vintage benchmarks and character: Compagnie Médocaine’s own editorial read. Soils and relief, where shown: the Compagnie Médocaine’s parcel survey and the Mapbox/IGN terrain model.