Clos de Tart 2022

This is at once aromatically fresher, more elegant and more floral-suffused, along with slightly more prominent wood influence on the cool dark berry fruit aromas. The impressively rich, indeed plush and velvet-textured, larger-bodied flavors brim with sappy dry extract that buffers the very firm tannic spine shaping the powerful, wonderfully long and better-balanced finale. The dense but relatively fine-grained tannins should permit this beauty to be approachable young but also enable it to repay 15+ years of keeping. (Drink starting 2037)

A full deep crimson purple. Very intense with bilberries and boysenberries. There is a layer of luxury coating the fruit. Yet it is far from over voluptuous on the palate, there are good signs of the more refined sensuality that Alessandro is trying to bring here. The peaches, pêches de vigne, are just present in the background to remind one of the warmth of the vintage, yet there is a welcome layer of velvet on top of the bones. The red carpet has been put down. Tasted from a different glass (Grassl) the Clos de Tart no longer shows the peaches, the fruit appearing more accessible and less sunny.