Winery - Nicolas Potel
* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Tough and tannic, with modest cherry fruit but an overriding lack of generosity. Drink now before the fruit fades, or hold and pray for the tannins to fade first.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Smells clean and completely modern, with black cherries and caramel notes, folding in some dark chocolate and cedar flavors. Drink now, because some starching tannins rise up on the finish and threaten to out do the fruit over the long term.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Slightly horsey aromas layered over tart cherries and berries give this Potel offering a little something not found in the other wines tasted. Some tasters might find this level of brett objectionable, but here it adds character to an otherwise light, acidic wine.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
This plump wine boasts sexy aromas of vanilla and cinnamon layered over plums and black cherries. Finishes with fine intensity and persistence of flavor, showing more oak than Potel’s other offerings.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Dark and earthy, this is a sturdily constructed Burgundy that showcases black-skinned plums, clean compost and tobacco aromas and flavors. Give it a year or two to shed some tannin, then drink it over the next five.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Very much in the Nicolas Potel style of fruit-driven wines, this still keeps a firm grip on the structure, which is proper to a wine from Morey Saint-Denis. There’s great freshness here, but also the ripe fruits of 2003—blueberries, dark plums—plus just a touch of wood and a flourish of acidity to finish.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Deliciously perfumed fruit, with new-wood richness topped by solid tannins here. This is a dense, chewy wine but also one that offers plenty of juicy, black fruit flavors. Big and bold, it will also age well.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
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