2002 Nicolas Potel Romanée St. Vivant

Community Tasting Notes (15) Median Score: 92 points

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  4/11/2022 - Bakka Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Really impressive wine at its peak. Beautifully balanced and complex. Dark fruits, long, seductive nose. The surprise of the evening. WOTN up against formidable competition. Has the profile of a wine that will last decades longer, but likely at its best now.

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  2/10/2022 - Paul S wrote: 93 Points

  Lunch at Voyage (Voyage Patisserie, Singapore): Nice stuff. This was one of the better bottles of Potel's 2002 RSV that I have had. The nose was classic Vosne, with black cherries and plums, earth and wood spice, with a little kick of RSV's violets and a little shade of iron mineral at the edges. The palate was marked by fine tannins and bright acidity framing sinewy flavours of black cherries, blueberries and plums, again seasoned with a nice bit of powdery Vosne spices. There was a nice juicy, clarity to it, as well as plenty of depth and length. Some power too as it led into a full, round finish touched with some earthiness. Not the most elegant and filigreed example from the vineyard maybe, but this was very delicious. A yummy wine, starting to come into a nice drinking window.

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  1/2/2020 - melvinyeowq wrote:

  Signature ripe extracted fruit. Dark cherries, sous bois, spice and some harsh tannins. Better on the nose than palate. Got softer with time but didn’t quite hit the heights.

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  12/31/2019 - Wardyn wrote: 92 Points

  A bouquet of cool array of black cherry fruits, some Asian spices and floral perfume. Fruits was ripe and felt rather extracted. Mellowed down and the oak became more integrated the next day I tried it. Such nice complexity of dark cherries, red berries, sous bois, coffee beans and dried autumnal floral. Velvety texture with a vivid dance of acidity in the background and terminates with a delicious finish. Though it didn’t have the GC intensity profile, it makes up for the layers and complexity here.

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  10/5/2019 - Paul S wrote: 94 Points

  Chris' Birthday Dinner (Summer Palace, Regent Hotel): Very nice indeed - this was better than the last bottle I had a couple of weeks back. What a lovely nose it had, with drifts of fragrant Vosne spice wafting around a core of sweet dark cherries and plums, dried violets and slightly funky, meaty sous bois. A beautiful RSV bouquet. It was delicious on the palate. So elegant, with fine, velvety tannins and wonderfully defined acidity framing deliciously transparent flavours of dark cherries, red berries and plums, all infused with a lovely mouthful of Vosne spice, and just that little kiss of florals tracing its way into a lovely long finish. Maybe lacking a touch of Grand a Cru authority and power, but it was very delicious - this was a truly seductive mouthful drinking at a rather advanced peak.

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