There is a lovely concentration of mulberry and plum aromas touched with hints of smoke and spice on the nose of the ‘Forge de Tart’, the second wine from the Clos de Tart. The texture is plump and firm, with a pleasantly lingering finish. The blend for this wine uses younger vines and the clonal selections of the vineyard. 25% of the grapes are fermented as whole clusters before ageing in cask (40% new). Noli is using this wine to implement his changes, grafting clonal selection to massale and reducing new oak while extending the length of maturation.

A deep red crimson. There is a heady warmth of largely strawberry fruit on the nose, very appetising. Here the palate has a tarry aspect with quite dry tannins, middleweight plus, 25% whole bunches, all made with a gentle hand and impressive length. Fresher in colour and nose, more precision, with energetic red fruit. A very much more interesting wine than the cheerful village Morey.

The whole cluster vinification is evident as the expressive and fresh nose is notably quite floral in character with its array of ripe dark berries that is trimmed in enough wood to notice as well as a mentholated top note. The succulent, round and velvet-textured medium weight flavors possess markedly solid mid-palate density before terminating in a lightly stony and attractively persistent finish where the only nit is noticeable warmth. This is sufficiently structured to reward a decade plus of keeping.