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Mommessin Clos de Tart(2003)
- Winery:
- Mommessin
- Varietal:
- Pinot Noir
- Region:
- France > Burgundy > Clos de Tart
- Type:
- Red Wine
- User Tags:
- oak - heavy, lenoir grape, color descriptors, bramble fruits, france, smooth, blackberry, berry, red, warm
- Allen Meadows
- Burghound
- Issue 21, 1st Quarter, 2006
- 91/100
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September 2007
- This is enormously ripe and explodes from the glass with warm wood-framed aromas of coffee, tobacco, plum, prune, smoked meat and dried herbs that introduce massively constituted though not incredibly structured flavors of serious size, weight and depth and blessed with buckets of extract that completely buffer the firm and ripe, firmly tannic backbone. This is not my style but it's not imbalanced or unduly warm and it's a wine that will live for 50 years.
- Stephen Tanzer
- International Wine Cellar
- Issue 125, March/April 2006
- 92(+?)?
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September 2007
- ($95; 15+% alcohol) Saturated ruby-red. Aromas of blackberry liqueur and dark tropical chocolate; "like a bon-bon," says Pithiot. Sweet, lush and huge, stuffed with fruit and torrefaction flavors. Amazingly thick and almost too ripe for its own good, but there's superb retention of fruit here, no doubt due to the north-south direction of the vine rows. Finishes with big, dusty tannins, strong oakiness and palate-staining length. "Drink now through 2025," Pithiot suggests, although I suspect that this massive wine will shut down at some point, perhaps for a long time. The 2003 Clos read more...de Tart could easily be tasted against the highest-octane examples from the New World. (hide)
- BS
- Wine Spectator
- 05/15/06
- 95/100
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May 2006
