Pauillac · vintage 2024
Why this vintage
- 94-95 from James SucklingBarrel-sample tasting range. And 3 other scores above 90/100.
- The 2024 vintage in PauillacA rainy spring and a difficult flowering reduced the crop; the dry October saved fine, light, easy-drinking wines.
Critic scores
- James Suckling94-95
- Vinous91-93
- Jeb Dunnuck90-92
- Wine Advocate89-91
The 2024 vintage in Pauillac
Vintage benchmark: 87/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: A rainy spring and a difficult flowering reduced the crop; the dry October saved fine, light, easy-drinking wines.
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
A deep and intense red, the wine is precise and subtle with a complex aromatic palette, combining notes of blueberry and raspberry, enhanced by touches of sweet spices, cedar, mocha and chocolate. Remarkably balanced, it offers a texture that is both creamy and refined. It is bright on the palate and reveals an elegant structure with tannins of great finesse, distinguished by their purity and bringing brilliance and harmony to the whole.
Blend of the 2024 vintage
- 66 % Cabernet-sauvignon
- 24 % Merlot
- 8 % Cabernet franc
- 1 % Carménère
- 1 % Petit verdot
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2024 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 2024 sheet
- 47 yrsVine age
Winemaking
In stainless steel vats in the gravity vat
Ageing
16 to 18 months in oak barrels (40% new)
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 2024
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Visuals
For this vintage, the media library contains: packshots. High-definition packshots, labels, back labels and lifestyle photos are reserved for clients and partners, on the Compagnie Médocaine’s VinCod media library.
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.