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2017 Domaine du Clos de Tart

Clos de Tart

Pinot Noir

France / Burgundy / Cote de Nuits / Morey-Saint-Denis

$645
RP 95
V 97
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2017 Domaine du Clos de Tart 'Clos de Tart' Grand Cru Monopole, Cote de Nuits, France

Summary of the Vintage
2017 is part of a series of what we can call 'early ' vintages that have been recurrent in the region since 2003. After a rather cold winter, we had the hottest March on record since 1957. Consequently, bud break started early on 30th March. Despite a worrying cold spell in April that reignited frost-fears, spring was mainly summery and this encouraged very quick vegetative growth. The vines were in bloom on 2nd June, marking the start of a summer which turned out to be very fine and sunny. Harvest began on 6th September and finished 4 days later. The harvested grapes were superb, very healthy with relatively thick skins and a beautiful aromatic spectrum.

Tasting Notes
Compared to 2016 - a vintage that shows all the traits of a concentrated year - the hallmarks of 2017 are its elegance and freshness. It has a lovely depth and a complex aromatic spectrum with both fruity (red fruits that show more blackberry hints with aeration) and floral (notably violet and rose) notes. with a very precise structure, characteristic of Clos de Tart in its best years.

RP 95

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2017 Clos de Tart Grand Cru is a little shut down after its recent bottling, but it is showing beautifully, wafting from the glass with aromas of sweet red berries, plums, wilted rose petals, peonies and dark chocolate, with only hints of the complexity to come with bottle age. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, supple and succulent, with an ample and enveloping core of fruit, powdery tannins and succulent acids, displaying good concentration and concluding with a long and perfumed finish. This is a fine showing for Clos de Tart, and despite its elegance, this 2017 will evidently reward bottle age. Reviewed by William Kelley. Issue date January 9, 2020. Drinking window: 2027-2050. This was my first tasting with Alessandro Noli, the new régisseur of Clos de Tart. Noli previously superintended the Rhône's Château Grillet and before that worked at Domaine d'Eugenie in Vosne-Romanée. A new cuverie has been constructed and the cellars renovated, and it is clear that everything will change at this historic address—but more on that next year, as the wines I tased on this occasion had all been made by the previous régisseur, Jacques Desvauges, who is now installed next door at the Domaine des Lambrays. Desvauges harvested early in 2018 but nonetheless a few days after the Clos des Lambrays was picked, and the resulting wines are quite ripe, oaky and fruit-driven in style, nodding as much to the Sylvain Pitiot era at Clos de Tart as they do to Desvauges's 2017, 2016, or even 2015 vintages. Indeed, on the basis of this first encounter, the 2018 would rank as my least-favorite of Desvauges's four vintages here by some margin. But a definitive judgment will have to wait until the wine is in bottle next year, when I look forward to going into more detail about the changes at the estate, as well as tasting Noli's first wines.
V 97

Vinous

(Rating 96 - 98) The 2017 Clos de Tart Grand Cru was matured in around 80% new oak, the barrels toasted chauff blonde. Jacques Desvauges mentioned that the wine needed oxygen ingress during maturation that only new oak can give. I tasted the component parts (as usual) as well as the blend. This has a very detailed, delineated bouquet offering mainly black fruit mixed with sous-bois, tobacco, clove and bay leaf, the typicité of the appellation showing through nicely. It feels very succinct and yet so fresh. The palate is beautifully balanced on the entry with a killer line of acidity. Pure black cherry fruit is joined by bilberry, hints of black olive and a marine/oyster shell tincture that comes through quite strongly toward the persistent, saline finish, which fans out with confidence. This is a brilliant follow-up to the benchmark 2016 by Jacques Desvauges and his team. Reviewed by Neal Martin. Tasting date: November 2018. Drinking window: 2024-2050.

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RP 95

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2017 Clos de Tart Grand Cru is a little shut down after its recent bottling, but it is showing beautifully, wafting from the glass with aromas of sweet red berries, plums, wilted rose petals, peonies and dark chocolate, with only hints of the complexity to come with bottle age. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, supple and succulent, with an ample and enveloping core of fruit, powdery tannins and succulent acids, displaying good concentration and concluding with a long and perfumed finish. This is a fine showing for Clos de Tart, and despite its elegance, this 2017 will evidently reward bottle age. Reviewed by William Kelley. Issue date January 9, 2020. Drinking window: 2027-2050. This was my first tasting with Alessandro Noli, the new régisseur of Clos de Tart. Noli previously superintended the Rhône's Château Grillet and before that worked at Domaine d'Eugenie in Vosne-Romanée. A new cuverie has been constructed and the cellars renovated, and it is clear that everything will change at this historic address—but more on that next year, as the wines I tased on this occasion had all been made by the previous régisseur, Jacques Desvauges, who is now installed next door at the Domaine des Lambrays. Desvauges harvested early in 2018 but nonetheless a few days after the Clos des Lambrays was picked, and the resulting wines are quite ripe, oaky and fruit-driven in style, nodding as much to the Sylvain Pitiot era at Clos de Tart as they do to Desvauges's 2017, 2016, or even 2015 vintages. Indeed, on the basis of this first encounter, the 2018 would rank as my least-favorite of Desvauges's four vintages here by some margin. But a definitive judgment will have to wait until the wine is in bottle next year, when I look forward to going into more detail about the changes at the estate, as well as tasting Noli's first wines.
V 97

Vinous

(Rating 96 - 98) The 2017 Clos de Tart Grand Cru was matured in around 80% new oak, the barrels toasted chauff blonde. Jacques Desvauges mentioned that the wine needed oxygen ingress during maturation that only new oak can give. I tasted the component parts (as usual) as well as the blend. This has a very detailed, delineated bouquet offering mainly black fruit mixed with sous-bois, tobacco, clove and bay leaf, the typicité of the appellation showing through nicely. It feels very succinct and yet so fresh. The palate is beautifully balanced on the entry with a killer line of acidity. Pure black cherry fruit is joined by bilberry, hints of black olive and a marine/oyster shell tincture that comes through quite strongly toward the persistent, saline finish, which fans out with confidence. This is a brilliant follow-up to the benchmark 2016 by Jacques Desvauges and his team. Reviewed by Neal Martin. Tasting date: November 2018. Drinking window: 2024-2050.

2017 Domaine du Clos de Tart 'Clos de Tart' Grand Cru Monopole, Cote de Nuits, France

Summary of the Vintage
2017 is part of a series of what we can call 'early ' vintages that have been recurrent in the region since 2003. After a rather cold winter, we had the hottest March on record since 1957. Consequently, bud break started early on 30th March. Despite a worrying cold spell in April that reignited frost-fears, spring was mainly summery and this encouraged very quick vegetative growth. The vines were in bloom on 2nd June, marking the start of a summer which turned out to be very fine and sunny. Harvest began on 6th September and finished 4 days later. The harvested grapes were superb, very healthy with relatively thick skins and a beautiful aromatic spectrum.

Tasting Notes
Compared to 2016 - a vintage that shows all the traits of a concentrated year - the hallmarks of 2017 are its elegance and freshness. It has a lovely depth and a complex aromatic spectrum with both fruity (red fruits that show more blackberry hints with aeration) and floral (notably violet and rose) notes. with a very precise structure, characteristic of Clos de Tart in its best years.

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