Pale lemon in color.
Light on nose and medium plus in body with medium plus acidity.
Dry on the palate with medium plus sized bubbles.
Showing limes, grapefruits, lemons, green apples, yeast, minerals, brioche, sea salt, spices and herbs.
Medium finish with limes and grapefruits.
This 9 year old Champagne is still too young, and needs 10 years in the bottle to mature properly.
Easy drinking, fruit forward and elegant. Already delicious, even by itself, complex and interesting.
Robert Parker 95 points. Wine Spectator 96 points.
Needs an hour to open up properly, so be patient.
I've had many different vintages of this Champagne and this vintage feels more approachable young. Will continue to get better in the next 20 years.
Great by itself or with food.
A blend of 51% Pinot Noir and 49% Chardonnay. Disgorged in 2023.
12.5% alcohol by volume.
92 points.
$250. — 7 days ago
Very good. May 2026 — a month ago
1/2 hour decant(decent sediment). A gorgeous still dark purplish magenta color. On the nose: seductive perfumed notes of dark fruit, smoked meat, funky earth, cigar box, pencil lead, vanilla oak. Taste: savory wine with dried dark fruit, graphite and gravel, iron, and a kinda astringent smokey tobacco finish. Not my cup of tea...maybe bottle flaw. — 14 days ago

Delicious, rich, complex, burst of cherry, paired nicely with Steak Frittes. — 9 days ago
This is well beyond critical reviews young.
Sofia & I became friends with Jean D’Anjoy (photo to right). Winemaker who now runs all the Rothschild properties. He was the Assistant Winemaker at Opus One for 10 yrs. He had many offers to be a Napa Winemaker but refused. Had he, he would have been demeeded a Napa Winemaker when he wanted to always go back to Bordeaux as a Winemaker. Opus was fine as it is 1/2 French owed. He later became the the Clerc Milon Winemaker in 09. What a first vintage. He simultaneously built the new facilities at Clerc Milon. He is also perhaps the best & kindest human being I’ve ever met.
He arranged for Sofia & I to pick the Mouton Merlot and work all phases of the 2012 Clark Milon vintage. So, you might wanna not buy the 2012 vintage of Mouton & Clerc. 😂 He also arranged for us to sit at the Baroness’s table for the harvest luncheon where they poured the last of the filtered bottom of the barrels of 82 Mouton. I asked Sofia to pinch me. The Baroness sadly died two years later.
The nose is sweet and a touch sour; blackberries & black raspberries. Floral & slightly candied; dark and light cherries, juicy strawberries, raspberries and some circling baked rhubarb. Understated new oak barrel powder, beautiful baking spices-clove, nutmeg, cinnamon and vanilla, dry leaves and twig, baking powder, fresh and dry herbs, lead pencil shavings, limestone, dark soils, dry pebbles, red, and dark florals set in liquid violets.
The palate shows medium plus well rounded, softened, resolved tannins. The fruit is ripe and juicy. Blackberries & black raspberries. Floral & slightly candied; dark and light cherries, juicy strawberries, raspberries and some circling baked rhubarb. Understated new oak barrel powder, beautiful baking spices-clove, nutmeg, cinnamon and vanilla, dry leaves and twig, baking powder, mid, dark spices with a shade of heat, fresh and dry herbs, lead pencil shavings, moist to dry tobacco, used leather, limestone, dark soils, dry pebbles, red, and dark florals set in liquid violets, perfect acidity and a grand elegant, well balanced, integrated finish that lasts 90 seconds and lands on spice & earth.
An elegant beauty if I ever had one. Has another 5-7 yr ahead depending on storage.
Photos of; the new facilities at Clerc Milon, Jean D’Anjoy and their vineyards, barrel room and tasting/entertaining lounge.
Delectable & IOS 27 isn’t a good fit today. — a month ago
Ok, not the best. First sip has a metallic taste. Better after it breathes a bit. Sept 2026 — a month ago
Very good. June 2025 — a month ago
I am torn with the rating here. We had this after the Dom Rose and man did this need a lot of air. Very closed and tannin forward upon opening and decanting, then slowing opening up - an hour was not enough. It really came together after 3-4 hours and then had an amazing balance. Evolved from 9.0 to something 9.6 through the course of the evening. — a month ago
Lovely and bright. White cherry, white pepper, lime zest. Very tasty on an unseasonably hot October weekend. — a month ago
Выпито 06.10.26 на балконе Symbol. Сегодня Свете было бы 60 лет…Как несправедлив этот мир… — a month ago
GaryWEdwards
I would probably only have this beautiful wine only 10 years later but the 375ml brings things forward, showing why this winter if 2016 vintage is so highly regarded. I think the juice is ready now but will be a long runner for decades — 7 days ago