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

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Neal Martin - Vinous

“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.”

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Jasper Morris - Inside Burgundy

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.”

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Jane Anson - Decanter

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.”

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William Kelley - Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2018 Clos de Tart Grand Cru opens in the glass with rich aromas of raspberries, plum preserve, ripe berries, warm spices and rose petals, framed by a generous touch of creamy new oak. Full-bodied, layered and concentrated, it's rich, muscular and extracted, with a brooding, introverted profile that will require—and, one hopes, reward—patience. As I wrote last year, this is a powerful, broad-shouldered Clos de Tart that has more in common with the wines of the Pitiot era than it does with what the domaine produced in 2015, 2016, 2017 or 2019.

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William Kelley - Robert Parker Wine Advocate

Bursting with aromas of wild berries, kirsch, warm spices, maraschino cherries, cinnamon and creamy new oak, the 2018 Clos de Tart Grand Cru is full-bodied, rich and fleshy, with an ample core of ripe fruit, ripe acids and fine, powdery tannins. Stylistically—even though the domaine began the harvest on August 30—this is a heady, opulent and somewhat overbearing Clos de Tart that has more in common with the wines of the Pitiot-era than the 2015, 2016 or 2017 vintages at this address. Of course, it may become more dynamic with another winter in barrel, so it will be more than usually interesting to revisit this in bottle.