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Domaine Clos de Tart Grand Cru Clos de Tart 2018 Museum Release

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Domaine Clos de Tart Grand Cru Clos de Tart 2018 Museum Release
Producer Domaine du Clos de Tart
Region, Country Morey-St-Denis, France
Bottle Size 750ml
Product Code 24847-750

The 2018 vintage marked the first organic-certified vintage for the clos. Picked and vinified by Jacques Devauges but bottled under Alessandro Noli and the new regime, it’s an excellent reflection of this powerful vintage: an intense and hedonistic Clos de Tart, with fine, silky tannins. 

Nine separate cuvées were vinified in 2018, spending an average of 18 days in vat. Extraction was gentle (though not as gentle as today); only four punchdowns were carried out, all by foot. The final blend was roughly 65% whole bunches. It was raised for 19 months, 80% in new Tronçais oak barriques (light toast) and 20% in one-year-old barrels and demi-muids. As always, the wine was hand-bottled by gravity, without fining or filtration.

Domaine Clos de Tart Grand Cru Clos de Tart 2018 Museum Release

Reviews

“Absolutely bursting with blue and red fruits, the concentration is deceptive here, as it starts out juicy and full of air, but after a few minutes in the glass you start to feel the weight and the texture, and this turns into an extremely serious wine with real tannic hold. Gorgeous savoury finish, as you get so often in the best Burgundies, where weightlessness is such a brilliant veil to the power behind.”
98 points, Jane Anson, Decanter
Five Star Wine. “Dense purple. Succulent ripe fruit, rich cherries, seductive yet not quite too much of a good thing. More oak emerges but in harness with a hugely impressive weight of fruit. This is an absolute baby. A few stems support the profile and while they add a lightly drying touch, this is a monumental wine for the very long term future.”
98 points, Jasper Morris MW, Inside Burgundy
“The 2018 Clos de Tart Grand Cru was wonderful from barrel but now it seems to have gone up another level. It has an exquisite bouquet with wonderful mineralité infusing the brambly red fruit. Wonderful focus and quite profound complexity. You could nose this forever. The palate is medium-bodied with finely chiselled tannins married with a killer line of natural acidity. Everything is perfectly proportioned in this wine, very persistent with layers of dark berry fruit laced with white pepper and tea leaf on the finish. Immense.”
98 points, Neal Martin, Vinous

Reviews

“Absolutely bursting with blue and red fruits, the concentration is deceptive here, as it starts out juicy and full of air, but after a few minutes in the glass you start to feel the weight and the texture, and this turns into an extremely serious wine with real tannic hold. Gorgeous savoury finish, as you get so often in the best Burgundies, where weightlessness is such a brilliant veil to the power behind.”
98 points, Jane Anson, Decanter
Five Star Wine. “Dense purple. Succulent ripe fruit, rich cherries, seductive yet not quite too much of a good thing. More oak emerges but in harness with a hugely impressive weight of fruit. This is an absolute baby. A few stems support the profile and while they add a lightly drying touch, this is a monumental wine for the very long term future.”
98 points, Jasper Morris MW, Inside Burgundy
“The 2018 Clos de Tart Grand Cru was wonderful from barrel but now it seems to have gone up another level. It has an exquisite bouquet with wonderful mineralité infusing the brambly red fruit. Wonderful focus and quite profound complexity. You could nose this forever. The palate is medium-bodied with finely chiselled tannins married with a killer line of natural acidity. Everything is perfectly proportioned in this wine, very persistent with layers of dark berry fruit laced with white pepper and tea leaf on the finish. Immense.”
98 points, Neal Martin, Vinous

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