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Clos Manou
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2023
Clos Manou (Médoc)
Espresso, black cherries, blackberries, licorice, and tobacco form the core of the wine in the nose, and on the palate, with layers of cherries, and currants in the supple, fresh finish. While this is easy to enjoy in its youth, with age, this is going to be even better. Drink from 2026-2038. 90-92 Pts. 1,543 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2022
Clos Manou (Médoc)
Blackberries, licorice, espresso, vanilla, currants and cedar work together to form the perfume. Complete from start to finish, the fresh, soft, firm, medium-bodied finish is packed with more of those, sweet, dark, fresh fruits. While this is easy to enjoy in its youth, with age, this is going to be even better. Drink from 2025-2038. 91-93 Pts. 3,939 Views Tasted May 8, 2023 |
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2022
Clos Manou "Cuvée 1850" (Médoc)
Black, dark red and blue fruits show in the nose. On the palate, the wine is lush, concentrated, sweet, vibrant, round, and fresh. There is a patina of softness to the fruits in the mid-palate and in the endnote. The wine is produced from a small parcel of Merlot vines planted in 1850! Drink from 2025-2037. 92-94 Pts. 2,589 Views Tasted May 8, 2023 |
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2021
Clos Manou (Médoc)
One of the top Medoc's in this vintage, the wine sports tobacco leaf, black cherry, flowers and cedar notes in the perfume. On the palate, the wine is vibrant, fresh, and almost firm. There is some length with a refreshing spearmint note on the backend. Drink from 2023-2030. 89-91 1,565 Views Tasted Mar 9, 2024Deeply colored, there is fruit and freshness here with round textures and nice character, finishing with blackberries, tobacco leaf and plums along with a hint of cocoa in the endnote. The wine blends 73% Cabernet Sauvignon, 17% Merlot, 8% Petit Verdot and 2% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2023-2030. 89-91 3,035 Views Tasted May 20, 2022 |
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2020
Clos Manou "Cuvée 1850" (Médoc)
Already showing a bit of maturity in the color, the wine is medium-bodied, soft, polished, creamy, and fresh. The finish is all about its sweet plums with accents of truffle, licorice, spice, and earth. The wine is produced from a small parcel of 100% Merlot, pre-phylloxera vines planted in 1850! Drink from 2024-2035. 1,583 Views Tasted Aug 21, 2023 |
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2020
Clos Manou (Médoc)
A solid effort and one of the better wines from the far north of Bordeaux, the wine offers flowers, tobacco, herbs, cedar and currants. Round, fruity and soft, with a juicy, mouthful of sweet cassis on the mid-palate, this is good now, and will be even better with a few years of bottle age. Drink from 2024-2038. 2,850 Views Tasted Mar 21, 2023Deeply colored, the fragrant wine opens with peppery cassis, earth, spice and savory herbs on the nose. Full-bodied, dense and chewy with an herb and pepper note to accompany its blast of powerful dark fruit. Give this 5 years or so to soften and develop. 89-91 Pts 4,256 Views Tasted May 20, 2021 |
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2019
Clos Manou (Médoc)
Floral in nature in its opening notes, the wine is loaded with soft, polished, sweet, juicy, ripe, dark red fruits. Medium-bodied, vibrant and juicy, this is already a treat to taste from the fruit-filled mid-palate, all the way through to its creamy-textured, black currant finish. Drink from 2023-2034. 4,286 Views Tasted Mar 29, 2022 |
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2018
Clos Manou (Médoc)
Dense and dark in color, the wine pops with roses, dark, brooding, red pit fruits, earth and spice. Richly textured, with layers of soft, ripe, lush, dark red fruits that resonate. There is good old-vine intensity that you can taste and feel here. The wine blends 52% Cabernet Sauvignon, 38% Merlot, 5% Petit Verdot and 5% Cabernet Franc. 6,287 Views Tasted Mar 9, 2021Inky dark, dense and full-bodied, the wine shows lots of sweet, juicy red fruits on the palate and in the long, earthy, fresh, round, lush finish. 89-91 Pts 7,461 Views Tasted Apr 19, 2019 |
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2017
Clos Manou (Médoc)
Fresh, juicy, round and ripe, you find red fruits, cedar and tobacco, soft tannins, a medium body and bright, fresh red fruits on the palate and in the finish. 3,670 Views Tasted Apr 26, 2018 |
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2016
Clos Manou (Médoc)
Better with age, though the wine retains its oaky edge, as well as loads of ripe, blackberries, dark cocoa, espresso, and black cherries. Concentrated, round, and displaying ample dark red fruits, with sweetness and richness on the palate, this is a fabulous example of wine from the far north of the Medoc. Drink from 2023-2036. 4,340 Views Tasted Dec 6, 2022There is a bit too much oak here, which stops the fruit from delivering to full capacity. The color is deep and there is flesh but the wood must integrate properly for this to really shine. 4,956 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2017 |
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2015
Clos Manou (Médoc)
With an earthy, forest floor essence, tobacco, oak and blackberry, the wine is ripe, firm, structured, and age worthy. Produced from a forward blend of 69% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Merlot, 9% Petit Verdot and 2% Cabernet Franc. 88 - 90 Pts 4,713 Views Tasted Apr 26, 2016 |
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2014
Clos Manou (Médoc)
Kissed by oak, this wine features dark red fruits, forest and leafy notes with a lingering finish tinted with cassis and dark chocolate. Produced from a forward blend of 52% Merlot, 40% Cabernet Sauvignon, 6% Petit Verdot and 2% Cabernet Franc. 87-89 Pts 3,194 Views Tasted Apr 21, 2015 |
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2013
Clos Manou (Médoc)
With black cherries, cocoa, espresso bean and hints of earth, this soft, sweet and ready-to-drink wine is a real value. From a blend of 48% Merlot, 43% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Cabernet Franc, and 4% Petit Verdot, the wine reached 13.2% ABV and is aging in 70% new oak. 86-88 Pts 2,309 Views Tasted Apr 23, 2014 |
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2012
Clos Manou (Médoc)
Bright and crisp with red berries and some green in the bright finish. 84-86 Pts 3,255 Views Tasted Apr 23, 2013 |
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2011
Clos Manou (Médoc)
With old vines averaging 40 years of age, the real surprise is that 2% of the vines are amazingly pre-phylloxera! From an assemblage of 75% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Merlot, 7% Cabernet Franc and 3% Petit Verdot, the wine reached 14.2% ABV. Herbs, earth, cassis, medium body and a red berry finish. 87-88 Pts 2,796 Views Tasted Apr 12, 2012 |
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2010
Clos Manou (Médoc)
Lots of cassis, spice, blackberries, tobacco and earth in this ready to drink, medium bodied, fresh wine. This should be even better with another year or two of age. 4,178 Views Tasted Aug 8, 2013 |
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2009
Clos Manou (Médoc)
Solid Bordeaux value wine here, with its open, round, licorice, chocolate and dark cherry profile, the wine is soft, spicy and easy to drink. 3,208 Views Tasted May 7, 2014 |
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2005
Clos Manou (Médoc)
Fully mature, with load of cedar wood, smoke, tobacco, blackberry and wet earth on the nose. The fruit has a nice, spicy freshness to its red berry quality that carries through to the finish. 3,829 Views Tasted Oct 15, 2017 |
