Clos de Tart, Grand Cru, 2009

Name: Clos de Tart, Grand Cru
Brand: Clos de Tart
Price: 3022.33 GBP

Available Vintages

all 2009 2011 2012

justerini & brooks tasting note

The 2009 was fermented with a approximately 50% whole bunches, aged in oak barrels for 17 months and will be bottled without filtration in Spring 2011. This wine, the result of a superb growing season and a modest 26 hl/ha, is perfectly balanced. The natural alcohol is 13.59 degrees, the structure is serious yet there is an energy and exuberance to it, not to mention a very shapely figure. The ripe sloe, red berry, wild bramble and loganberry fruit is set in dense but alluring and curvaceous tannic structure. There is depth of flavour, too, to compliment the heady opulent Pinot fruit characteristics there are undertones of mineral, stone and undergrowth. The seems to have it all richness and vitality, structure and harmony. A great allrounder, a true thoroughbred, this should last the course for decades.

critic reviews

96/100Neal Martin,Vinous

The 2009 Clos de Tart Grand Cru is a wine that turns everything up to 11. It was picked from September 15 at 29.4hl/ha with 13.6° alcohol, then matured for 17 months in new oak. There was some whole bunch here, although I do not know the exact percentage. The incredibly intense, powerful bouquet of red cherries, kirsch and cranberry is augmented by light floral scents, although there is more glycerin here than I recollect on previous bottles. The palate is medium-bodied, muscular and well-balanced, offering firm, grippy tannins that lacquer the mouth. As I have observed before, with aeration this becomes more clenched and more like the 2010 in style, though I seek a little more detail on the finish, where the precocity of the growing season blurs the edges. Give it another three to five years. Tasted at a private Clos de Tart dinner in London.

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date of review 02/2019