2003 Nicolas Potel Grands-Echezeaux

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Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 91.7 points

  • During a Zoom blind tasting. This was tasted next to the 2001, big difference as the sunny year is in full display here. Great sucrosite in this wine, a pleasure to drink, good structure and no sur-maturitee or heat. May be not the last word on complexity on the finish but very nice.

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  • Grands-Echézeaux Dinner (Summer Pavilion, Ritz Carlton, Singapore): Different in character from the lacy, elegant 2000 that we had alongside, but every bit as good. This was perhaps closer to what one would expect from a Grands-Echezeaux. It had a deeper, meatier nose, with darker cherries and red berries, and then a deep bed of savoury earth and meat aromas, all wreathed with lots of spice and bramble. Lovely, alluring stuff. The palate was certainly deeper and fuller than the 2000, with a real sense of Grand Cru depth to it. Here, it was still a light marked by the remnants of powdery 2003 tannins, but it all felt very fine and nicely balanced, with soft acidity wrapped around a surprisingly bright palate of red berries, some apple flesh, and then a distinct note of orange peel - really delicious stuff. There was just that tiny hint of 2003's drying woodiness again right at the very finish, along with a nice blush of warm spice leading into a tail of mineral and earth. Otherwise, this was open, generous and fresh. Less filligreed than 2000 for sure, but really well-balanced and elegantly shaped for 2003. Very yummy and drinking well now, but this will get better with time too. A smashing bottle - one of the best I have had from Potel for a very long time. This pair of wines really made us wonder where he sourced the Grands-Echezeaux from - they put a trio of underperforming Engel GEs in the shade, and that is really saying something.

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  • Pale yet bright vibrant ruby. Some big floral aromas and red cherry, plum fruits. Full mineral stony, red cherry, mossy flavours, and some roses. Still a good measure of acids, while tannins largely resolved. Pleasurable and a good sense of comfort drinking it. Fair finish though I’d have expected more length. In all, a really good wine

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  • quite nice and intense. perhaps a bit one-dimensional. but very likeable.

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  • Bouteille et bouchon en parfaite condition. High fill. Non carafé mais ouvert 90 minutes avant consommation. Couleur prune avec quelques reflets tuilés. Le nez démarre lentement avec des arômes plutôt floraux, puis de cerise, de bacon. L'attaque en bouche est douce, tout en velours, puis la puissance arrive, avec des tanins fermes et vigoureux, de l'acidité aussi. La finale est de longueur moyenne.
    Il s'agit d'un excellent vin, qui manque toutefois un peu de complexité aromatique pour un grand cru. Trop jeune?

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  • Drink with Alain and Friends: Fragrant, aromas of stone fruits, white peaches, honey dew and hints of fresh cucumber. Nice grip, fine tannins and red cherries dominate the palate. Aromas of lavender and mints as bouquet evolves. Very vibrant, piquant ripe fruits and peaches on the palate. Typical of a potel syle with abundence of plums and peaches, black raisins. Some medicinal flavours, and hints of cordeceps. Strong, musculine, warm wine reminiscent of a hot summer vintage.

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