Potel Nicolas

2002 Potel Nicolas Vosne-Romanée Les Malconsorts

By billn on September 11, 2010

Medium colour. This has limited aromatic width, but what depth! There’s a lot of Vosne about the nose; spice, ginger and warmer fruit at the base. In the mouth this has something in common with the nose – not really a grand cru impact, but absolutely a grand cru complexity, mid-palate dimension and finish – the acidity focusing and extending the length. This is seriously good and much more open than I had right to expect from a 2002. Lovely wine.

2002 Potel Nicolas Aloxe-Corton Les Boutières

By billn on July 21, 2010

Bottle 7 from 12. On opening I hardly recognise this wine – the colour still has that young medium-plus cherry-red hue, but the nose has a slightly ashy, oaky aroma and the flavours are quite strident – what’s needed is a little aeration. Et voila: 3 minutes from opening this is aromatically singing, creamy deep redcurrant, indeed so creamy it’s faintly lactic but it is really wonderful. At the core there is a hint of something a little more mature, the ashy element has become a hint of leafy undergrowth, but just a hint. Clearly the acidity is a little ascendant now, but the mid-palate concentration remains enough that the wine is not mortally compromised and there is still an edge of tannin too. A long way from real maturity and still showing sufficient density and energy to keep me coming back for more.

2002 Potel Nicolas Aloxe-Corton Les Boutières

By on July 31, 2007 #asides

This was lush, sweet and full of joie-de-vivre from barrel and also for it’s first 18 months in bottle – it was great fun – it’s now a different wine. It still retains that medium-plus cherry red colour and the nose is high toned and fresh though has now lost some bass notes. There is still sweetness and it retains a well-concentrated punch in the mid-palate, but today this wine has lost much of the lush foil to the acidity. It’s fresh and certainly not overly acidic now – but is more obviously tart than before. The last 5 or 6 can spend some time resting now…

2002 Potel Nicolas Vosne-Romanée Les Malconsorts

By on March 31, 2007 #asides

Understated, edgy, coffee-tinged fruit on the nose – the nose never really expands in our time together. Roll this concentrated wine around in your mouth and you get sweet, dense fruit and many dimensions of flavour. The wine still seems to be opening out as you move from the mid-palate into the finish – a peacock’s tail.

2002 Potel Nicolas Vosne-Romanée Les Gaudichots

By on September 30, 2006 #asides

Deeper ruby-red colour vs the 02 DRC 1er. The nose is sweeter with a hint of oak and cedar and perhaps just a trace of volatility. Beautiful texture, opens out over the palate very well. This wine in isolation a rather good, next to the DRC it’s lacking focus and precision. There is more density and intesity but not quite the length of the DRC. Today this comes a distant second, it will be interesting to make the test again in another ten years or so.

2002 Potel Nicolas Aloxe-Corton Les Boutières

By on June 30, 2006 #asides

A deep core of colour, fading a little to the rim. The nose is deep and tasty, nicely pure with sweet redcurrant, slowly revealing an edge of cedar just below the radar. Fresh, reasonably long, though certainly not as plush as 6 months ago. Still tasty and clean.

2002 Potel Nicolas Savigny-lès-Beaune Les Vergelesses

By on February 28, 2006 #asides

Drunk to follow the Bichot village Savigny. Medium-plus cherry-red colour. The nose is initially more about forest floor than fruit, even a concern about taint, but it doesn’t develop on either the nose or palate, eventually (2+ hours) good, high-toned red fruit. The palate is less about the austere precision of the Bichot, and more about an earthy (from a texture perspective) and exciting complexity of sweet fruit – exactly the same contrast as in these two producer’s 2004 Malconsorts – grainy tannin and just an edge of blackness, perhaps a hint of toast too on the finish. Frankly the texture makes me think of brett, perhaps how the nose starts substantiates that – perhaps not. Right now this is still a good wine of real value.

2002 Potel Nicolas Chambertin

By on October 31, 2005 #asides

Medium, medium-plus cherry-red. The nose is high-toned and, initially, a little ‘clipped’, it’s very wide but takes quite some time to take on a rounder form. The palate is not about overt density or creamy, spicy oak, rather transparency and a fine burst of intensity that crescendos into the very long finish. Vs my memory of the cask sample, I’m a little disappointed (maybe it was a different cask) as that was one of the finest wines I’ve ever tasted from barrel. In isolation this is a very fine Chambertin with great complexity and a wonderful finish. Excellent rather than great!

2002 Potel Nicolas Pommard

By on October 31, 2005 #asides

Medium-plus cherry red. The nose is quite forward, initially black shaded – cherry and olive – then a violet note starts coming through. The palate starts a little tight, but is very well balanced with sweetness from the ripe fruit, drying tannins that show themselves only if you hold the wine in your mouth and forward but well mannered acidity. This wine was a bit of a bargain at ~13 Euro – so I had to invest in a six-pack.

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